For this project I have developed prototypes, using Omeka, Shared Shelf, and ContentDM, for a digital collection of archival materials showing the history of women’s clothing in America. I am part of a working group that has been meeting since … Continue reading
Over the summer of 2014, I was an intern at the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia University. This internship was focused on data recovery for the sciences and humanities, into Columbia’s institutional repository, Academic Commons. As … Continue reading
As a part of my work as a Faculty Research Assistant to Professor Jian Qin at the iSchool at Syracuse University, I edited and maintained a wiki, using XWiki, for documentation of a Capability Maturity Model for Research Data Management … Continue reading
Since 2009 I have worked with students at Vassar to create ObjectVRs of clothing from the Drama Department’s collection. This process involves mounting the garment on a mannequin, placing it on a large turntable, lighting it, and taking at least … Continue reading
I have set up and maintained the following sites, ranging from self-hosted sites I installed myself to sites on multi-user systems installed by others, including Vassar and WordPress.com: http://pages.vassar.edu/vccc/ http://pages.vassar.edu/hcpw http://pages.vassar.edu/artistinresidence/ http://www.ardenkirkland.com/IST558/ http://www.ardenkirkland.com/CulturalHeritagePSI/ http://ardenkirkland.wordpress.com/ . . . not to mention … Continue reading
This proposal outlines strategies to greatly improve the information architecture for an artist’s website, at MichaelCiccone.com. The project included persona development, comparative analysis, blueprints, page description diagrams, wireframes, card-sorting, a content audit, content strategy, accessibility analysis, and a semi-functional prototype. … Continue reading
This group project proposed a new way of structuring content for an existing website (for a local arts organization), using XML to store content and XSL to display content within a WordPress site. You can see the working pages in … Continue reading
I shared this project as a poster at the April 2012 symposium for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). From fall 2011 to the summer of 2012, my work on digital access to Vassar’s research collection of … Continue reading
This series of three screencasts introduces some of the “why” and “how” of using Omeka as a platform for building digital collections with students. It was originally created to introduce other faculty and staff to Omeka, but I have since … Continue reading
