Marc’s Project Review (so far)

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!