Multimedia Projects and Digital Humanities Materials
Contents
- Flash: In Memoriam – An Interactive Module
- Gothic Novels – Exploration Through Data Visualization
- Introduction to SQLite – An Interactive Module
- COVID Crafts – An Omeka Exhibit
- E-Literature Blog – In Progress
Flash: In Memoriam – An Interactive Module
This project, created for Professor Anne Gilliland’s Digital Preservation course, is a learning module that shares a brief history of Flash (both the software and the now-defunct Internet plug-in) and introduces methods by which early Internet animations, games, and multimedia are being preserved. I used PowerPoint to try to mimic the interactive capabilities of Flash projects: while in Presentation mode, viewers could click red links within the presentation to advance the slides, view examples, and reveal annotations.
Unfortunately (and somewhat ironically given the subject matter), PowerPoint is difficult to embed into a webpage without jumping through a lot of hoops. Download the PowerPoint file here: Download the non-interactive PDF version here:
Gothic Novels – Exploration Through Data Visualization
This project is a culmination of three separate components:
- my discovery of Ann B. Tracy’s book, The Gothic Novel 1790-1830: Plot Summaries and Index to Motifs
- the creation and curation of a series of datasets, made available for reuse though Harvard Dataverse, in Professor Jillian Wallis’ course, Data Curation and Policy
- the use of Tableau, Voyant, and GIS mapping to analyse the datasets, based on method’s learned in Professor Miriam Posner’s Introduction to Digital Humanities course
At the very least, it was a fun experiment to see how 19th century literature can provide a wealth of data. Visit this project here.
Introduction to SQLite – An Interactive Module
When classes went remote in Spring 2020, the IS Lab focused on creating virtual workshops for students since they could no longer meet in person. I made this interactive PowerPoint module as a resource for first-year MLIS students taking the core Description and Access Course. It provides an introduction to relational database design – using the pets students have met in their Zoom courses as a dataset! Students learn to create data tables, join them with SQL statements, and run basic queries.
Click here to view this project on the IS Lab website.
COVID Crafts – An Omeka Exhibit
In Professor Miriam Posner’s Museums in the Digital Age course, I made a digital exhibit using the art projects I had worked on during quarantine as my collection, including books made in Professor Johanna Drucker’s Book Arts Lab. It’s a very basic exhibit, but it reminds me of the importance of tactile creativity in an increasingly digital world.
E-Literature Blog – In Progress
For my DH 299 capstone project, supervised by Professor Johanna Drucker, I am looking at how electronic literature and interactive fiction can be integrated into a traditional library OPAC system. I’m keeping track of the research that I’m doing through a blog, so that I will be able to synthesize my findings into a paper at the end of the quarter.