Marc is one of the six members of the group doing their project on the Scottish Chapbook found in the archives at the University of Guelph. Each of the six members are doing a different sub topic found throughout the chapbooks. Marc’s topic is romance found in the Scottish Chapbooks. Marc said in his presentation he found the romance was a theme found in all of the chapbooks, although there were different types of romance found throughout.
Marc wanted to make a distinction of romance between two time periods. The first time period was the neo classical period (Plato and Aristotle) which was more literature on how romance should be practiced. The second time period is the 19th century, where there was a change in the romantic period, to more of a liveral arts theme. Marc’s final site is not up yet so that review is still to come.
In his presentation, Marc expressed along with his other group members a heightened frustration towards Omeka. In his most recent blog update, Marc identifies uploading individual photos and inputting metadata as the most annoying part of the process. I can see where he is coming form. I believe this to be one of the limitations we consistently see in out Digital Humanities experiments. These programs do not necessarily act the way we want them to, leading to tedious work such as implementing metadata over and over again.
More to come when his site is up!
Upon receiving my comments for my original site, I changed a lot about what my website had to offer. I had a lot of facts on my original site, and I had to include why these facts were so. I also changed my video and made it a little bit more professional, as well I split up the different aspects of my project into the different pages wix.com offered. Enjoy!
Below is the link to my final published website I will be presenting today:
The project is finally done for me. After a week of tweeking data, experimenting with web design, and creating my video and photos, it all comes to a head tomorrow. I will blog about my webpage tomorrow. After my temportal moving map finally worked, I used geocommons to represent all the maps on my website…rendering the hours I spend manually creating Google Earth maps not wasted, but not exactly used in the final product. See everybody tomorrow
Hey everybody
I have been trying to upload my digital map to my website, and have been having some trouble,
Professor Ross suggested making a video of my map and uploading that to my site.
We found a program, called Screencast-O-Matic. Here, you can record a video on your screen, and upload as a video onto your website. Just simply go to the link, and click, “start recording,”
its real easy to navigate and use.
Good Luck everybody
The end is in site!
Hey everybody. If you are having a tough time creating a website, like I was about 2 hours ago, www.webs.com is a great place to start. A friend of mine suggested it to me, and it is quite easy to navigate. I was even able to embed my map using my code easily, something that I was quite intimidated by.
Hope this helps!
I am continuing to create maps and trends, trying to create the best possible way to present my data. Playing around with geocommons, I have began to create muliple maps that map players from around the world in decade intervals (For example 1919-1928, 1928-1929, so on…) This strategy has furthered my ability to show trends in player origins. However, of course with every map there is the odd data set that is in the complete wrong spot on the map. One interesting thing about geocommons though is that it can create multiple charts and graphs with the data it is presented with. This can also help me provide and indicate trends over the years on my website.
However, as it has seemed throughout this whole ordeal, with one step forward, there is another one back. I was about halfway through creating these new maps, when geocommons decided it would stop processing my information for no apparent reason. I now have maps that have been “pending” for hours now, and I am unable to delete them.
Thats the latest
Good Luck all!
Just a quick project update to where I am right now.
I mentioned earlier I was playing around with geocommons.com, as well as good earth as kind of a backup if my moving digital map did not pan out. I was able to create 10 stationary maps recording the birthplaces of NHL player every 10 years, to give a accurate portrayal of trends that occurred. I was hoping there was some sort of quick trick to import Excel info to google Earth, but this was not the case. Making these 10 maps consisted of me typing in individuall every single birth city, and creating a place mark for every player in the given years. As the dates got later, the amount of players added predictibly increased, with the most coming in 2008, with a total of more than 170 players who played their first NHL game in that year. However, as the dates also got later, the “Hey I know that guy!” occurred more and more, which added a bit more interest. I am continuing to play around with geocommons, and have found a tutorial on how to create a map that moves along a timeline, which was exactly my original idea. However, this feature does not seem to want to work with my data for whatever reason, but I am trying to work it out. I also am continuing to have the problem of the geocoding with geocommons. For the most part, the software plots the data in the right spot, however, there are some cases where it does not. For example, Al Montoya played his first game in 2008, and is from Chicago Illinois. On geocommons, there is a data plot in the middle of Alaska on the map, that gives the data for Al Montoya from Chicago. This continues to make zero sense to me, and I am not sure how to fix it.
Another interesting thing about geocommons is it allows me to convert my info on geocmmon into a KML file and put the data from geocommons onto Google Earth. I really wish I had known this before I manually created 10 maps on Google Earth. I had hope that when the data tranfered from geocommons to Google Earth, that the information would plot itself into the right location, but that is not that case.
Well until next time
GOod Luck Everybody! Were almost there
Since my presentation and most recent project update, I have made a lot of progress on really narrowing down my idea, and truly understanding what I would like to do.
I had originally hoped to create a moving map that follows along a timeline, which shows the birth places of NHL players, related to what year they played their first NHL game in. I am still hoping to get an appointment with the GIS experts here at Guelph, which many of us know has not been the easiest task. Since then, I have been playing around with a couple other mapping programs. Prof. Ross introduced me to geocommons, a mapping website, that allows you to transfer data to be geocoded into a map. After playing around and experimenting with this website, I was able to transfer a chunk of my Microsoft excel data, into map form. However, it seems as though the scaling of the mapping software is incorrect, as I tried to map only Canadian sights, and they were plotted basically all over the globe. I have also made a few google Earth maps. In case my moving map idea does not work out, I will make 10 separate maps, that plots individually where players came from every 10 years. (1920, 1930, 1940…) all the way until 2010. In this case, I wil make a website where you can quickly click through these maps, along with an analysis of trends and statistics.
That’s all for now!
Brendan had a very original and interesting idea for his project. He would like to create a digital replica of ancient Rome. The goal for this project is to create an interesting educational tool that he could possibly use in the future as a teacher at either the elementary or secondary level. The digital tools he is using to create this replica is both Google Earth and sketchup. He found a creative commons that provides three dimensional buildings that he can input into Google Earth. Using buildings as well as model roman people, he hopes to recreate life in ancient Rome, in a time period he has not quite determined.
To get his location correct, he has studied numerous maps of ancient Rome. To add to the project, seeing as it was an educational tool, Professor Ross suggested Brendan pursue creating lesson plans etc. I believe this could also be useful.
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