Watch Miriam Posner’s video on the components of a digital liberal arts project, and then explore one of the sites below and write a 400-word post trying to reverse engineer one of these projects (or a DLA/DH project that you find on your own):
Make sure your post does the following:
Write a 400-word post that does the following:
Evaluate the project Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761 (http://revolt.axismaps.com/). Fill out the "Project Evaluation Template" by going to the following link and clicking on "File" and "Make a copy" and then saving it to your own drive to edit: (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aJPx6KHs4TD7UE8u_xLyQqnIrFA3zhesHsDZ9j9j-V8/edit?folder=1jL9a7OtOfhqkeAPdPkHyHWe_-pa-KKgW).
Explore the project goals, what type of data it used, how that data was found and/or transformed, what technologies were used, and why. Be sure to include your own analysis of how successful you think the project was in achieving its aims, and why or why not.
We will discuss this process in class on April 6!
Create an interpretive label (100-150 words) that helps project explorers understand one of the data visualizations that you plan to include in your final project. Your label should explain your data visualization as an interpretation of your dataset. The goal of a label is to be concise, informative, and thought-provoking: engage the viewer by pointing out something that makes them look again, carefully.
Your object label should include the following:
Write a 400-word post trying that does the following:
Evaluate your own project in its current state (I do not expect it to be finished!). Fill out the "Personal Digital Project Evaluation" by going to the following link and clicking on "File" and "Make a copy" and then saving it to your own drive to edit: (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vfJMuxNYKRnAg7hBe3qVVI7e1eZWMU9Eup8LTIkkCNQ/edit).
Explore the project goals, what type of data it used, how that data was found and/or transformed, what technologies were used, and why. Be sure to include your own analysis of how successful you think the project was in achieving its aims, and why or why not.