The tides are high here on the Digital Silk Road.\u00a0 Right now we are in a bit of a adjustment period.\u00a0 Think about it: Digital Humanities can seem a little like chaining a bunch of humanities students to the computer.\u00a0 We’re humanities students!\u00a0 We like books, not blogging!\u00a0 I keep thinking back to a phrase that a teacher of mine once said: when the tides are high and the winds are strong, lower your sail.
\nThis week has been hard.\u00a0 The work load has gotten the better of us.\u00a0 My whole team has been working hard, but so far there hasn’t been any great pay off.\u00a0 My fear is that we are getting lost in our research and forgetting to keep our scope narrow.\u00a0 Because we do not have a vision for our finished product, it is hard to find direction.
\nHere are things that I think we need to keep in mind as we move forward:<\/p>\n
What I have been stressing to the team this week is to be mindful of how our information is being presented.\u00a0 What story we tell must fit the framework of Storymap JS.\u00a0 Therefore, we do not have to think about time as much as we do about space.\u00a0 Check out some examples of Storymaps here<\/a>. Both of these things should be started sooner rather than later.\u00a0 It will make going “live” smoother.<\/p>\n The image above was taken by the Japanese photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto<\/span>.\u00a0 It is a silver gelatin print taken in 1992 of the Yellow Sea, Cheju.\u00a0 I first stumbled upon this artist, actually, while I was staying at a friends house.\u00a0 They had an original hanging right in guest bedroom!\u00a0 I did some research and quickly realized that Sugimoto is a BIG deal.\u00a0 Check out the rest of his Seascapes<\/em> series here<\/a>! The tides are high here on the Digital Silk Road.\u00a0 Right now we are in a bit of a adjustment period.\u00a0 Think about it: Digital Humanities can seem a little like chaining a bunch of humanities students to the computer.\u00a0 We’re humanities students!\u00a0 We like books, not blogging!\u00a0 I keep thinking back to a phrase … Continue reading Technicalities…<\/span>
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\nSpeaking of presentation, the other Silkworms and I met with Tierney to discuss how to be administrators of the blog.\u00a0 I won’t go into the nitty-gritty details, but we did stumble upon the subject of web design.\u00a0 I realized how much I care about making this site look good.\u00a0 I think in all our efforts to get this course up and going we have made one over-site:\u00a0 making a webpage that people actually see is not EASY!\u00a0 And if anyone actually does see it, it better be visually enticing–otherwise they will exit right out of the window.\u00a0 To address these problems, we need to do a few things:<\/p>\n\n
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