Current Projects
Natural History Collection Prototype
Fall 2015
As part of a practicum, Kohl Kinning ('15, Biology) and Sasha Bishop ('14, Biology) are developing a prototype of a Natural History Collection for the Biology Department. This site would showcase the wide range of biological research done by students and faculty at Lewis & Clark. Kohl and Sasha have worked closely with Digital Initiatives and Science & Data Services Librarian Parvaneh Abbaspour throughout the project to conceptualize the site, create the MySQL database, and build web development skills.
Tools: PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap framework
SOAN 370 Advertising Collection
Fall 2015
Professor Robert Goldman incorporated the use of Omeka into his SOAN 370 course (American Advertising / Science of Signs). Goldman's students developed a metadata schema for the advertisements, and went through the process of cataloging and contributing advertisements to the collection. Goldman's goals for this project were to get his students thinking about the various aspects of advertisements by cataloging them, and ending with a collection of advertisements for further research.
Tools: Omeka
CS 393 Shared MySQL Database
Fall 2015
Students in Professor Jens Mache's CS 393 course (Computer Networks) were tasked to write PHP code to query a large MySQL database. As there was no immediate solution for hosting this database in a networked environment, Digital Initiatives set up the database on watzekdi.net and provided access to students in the class. In this case, the watzekdi.net site provided a quick solution for a technical problem.
Tools: MySQL
Mapuche Map Collection (private)
Fall 2015
Sociology Professor Sarah Warren has a research interest in the indigenous Mapuche people of South America. She has collected a number of maps of the Mapuche people, but needed a tool for organizing the maps and assigning appropriate metadata. Digital Initiatives set up a private Omeka site for Professor Warren to help keep her research objects better organized and classified.
Tools: Omeka