I’m so excited about this project. Librarians are accustomed to learning technology on the fly. We’re efficient: copying another page’s source code and substituting our own content was one way to get things done quickly when there wasn’t time to build something from the ground up. It’s wonderful to have...
It's fairly easy to create and add an RSS feed to a WordPress blog. 1. Go to Appearance > widgets and drag and position the RSS widget on the sidebar. 2. Construct your feed. Nearly every database offers the option to create a feed from a search. If you would like your results...
I was curious to see how Omeka sites have illustrated population growth and other changes over time. I was hoping to find something similar to the Pastmapper site about Greenwich Village, which takes a street in Greenwich village and incorporates census and building data. It is not an Omeka site,...
On the southwest corner of 113th and Amsterdam stand two of the older buildings in Morningside Heights: the Croton Aqueduct 113th Street gatehouse (1876) and the Engine Company No. 47 firehouse (1890). I am researching the role that the aqueduct and the fire department played in the early development...
Tuesday’s session was primarily about how to deal with a specific issue in our developing librarian blog. We decided that we would like to share our “four things” among ourselves (and with anyone else who is interested), but we didn’t want to overwhelm the blog with repetitive content. Bob and...
This morning we had an introduction to Git and to source and version control. Git is open source software that will allow us to preserve and work on our code in a distributed environment. This afternoon Stuart Marquis discussed Git and Github in CLIO development. He showed how each JIRA...
Today we got our hands on Git. We’d already installed the software on our office desktops, but it wasn’t installed on the 306 workstations, so we needed to download and install it on the DHC computers for our group session. Four things: snake_case and CamelCase. We used snake_case to name our...
Today I learned to: 1. create a GIT repository 2. add a file to the repository 3. Make a commit & roll back the commit 4. Sync with github and publish
Everything you do in design should have a reason. Basic elements of a web page: header, body, sidebar, footer Dividing horizontal space in thirds is eye pleasing and harmonious We will need to design five types of pages: front page, item page, collection page, exhibit page, and neatline exhibit page...
When this site went live, we all agreed that we would post regularly. A schedule was proposed and circulated, and we all signed up to post once every five weeks. With enthusiasm, I signed up to post in October. The topics were left open, and now that the semester is...
Alex reprised the Design session from 10/29 because so many of us were out that day. Today’s four things: the most important design elements for two-dimensional design are: color, typography, layout The difference between overlapping and non-overlapping design Responsive design instructions, for laptop: 900 px, for tablet: 250 px, for phone: 100...
We had a great PHP intro from Alex. I really liked the way Alex taught the class. He had about 7 slides and with each slide, he showed us some code and then asked us what we thought it would do. Then we pasted the code in a scripting site to...
Meredith, Bob, and I met this afternoon. Our assignment from Alex: Put an issue on github create an item in our individual omeka installations. Then back up the database. create a branch called playground and break the site I ran into some problems early on. My commits were out of...
Meredith Levin, Nick Patterson, Bob Scott and Sarah Witte (photographer) in the Studio@Butler The developers had a great meeting this morning. We went through Alex’s assignments, and are all up to speed on the first two, and close on the third. It has been a month since we’ve all met;...