My time at CDRH is coming to a close – Monday is the start of my last week here. I’ve learned so much! Where do I even begin? As far as how I’ll be spending my last week here – … Continue reading
‘Digital humanities’ and ‘digital scholarship.’ To many, this distinction may seem pointless or premature but I’ve been struggling to articulate what that distinction is. Why? Because after bookmarking a ton of sites, (anywhere from Centers’ & Studios’ project websites to … Continue reading
So, in my first posts, I briefly introduced the tools I would be using to work on the database: PHPMyAdmin (PMA), MySQLWorkbench (MSW), NetBeans – with just a few more weeks left, I wanted to take the time to reflect … Continue reading
This was a week full of Digital Humanities introductions and opportunities. It started with Tuesday’s observation of Whitman Camp which included folks from all participating institutions including Ed Folsom of the University of Iowa, Ken Price of UNL, Liz Lorang of UNL, Matt … Continue reading
This week, I spent much of my time working on modifying the logic in the watracking project to match up with the new database structure. Information about say, object TYPE classification (audio, video, text, image), is linked in an entirely … Continue reading
Week 3 was all about database redesign. After talking to Keith earlier in the week, I had an idea about how to proceed. Before speaking with Keith, I was experiencing some project focus confusion between taking his code and getting it … Continue reading
After my first week’s self-imposed rush to get comfortable with a range of new models, desktop work environments, and the CDRH itself – this week I felt more at ease with all three. I dove head first into Keith’s code. … Continue reading
My summer project consists of understanding the structure and logic of the Walt Whitman object tracking database, perform a needs assessment on users of the current tracking system used by the William F. Cody project and then, determine if/how/what to … Continue reading