Trixie Aguas, Mya Pieper, and Sylvie Olson.
Topic and Objectives
We will focus on Carleton student life and how it has changed over time. We plan to create an interactive web map of Carleton that displays pictures of student life from the Carleton Archives in their geographic locations and dates. We want users to better understand what student life at Carleton has looked like outside of the classroom and how Carleton student culture has changed throughout history.
Proposed methodology
Sources: We plan on using digitized photographs with the “student activities” tag from the Carleton Archives.
Processes: We will use the metadata from the archive’s entries to provide more information about the photographs on our map with pop ups. We will organize the metadata with a spreadsheet and will add the latitude and longitude of each photograph’s location.
Presentation: We will present our data on a web map from ArcGIS. The photographs will be represented as points that can expand to show metadata like the photograph, date, location, etc. We hope to use a timeline feature to show how student activities have transformed.
Timeline of deliverables:
Midway through week 8, we will have selected the photographs and organized their metadata to our spreadsheet. By the end of week 8, we will have processed the data into ArcGIS. Week 9 we will revise our map stylistically and organize what information is available so our map is easy to navigate and aesthetically pleasing.
DH model project precedents:
Personal Interests / Takeaways:
Trixie: What students at Carleton do outside the classroom is often just as important as what is done inside the classroom. I am most interested to see how student activities of the past vary from those of the present. Is there a clear distinction, or are there not many differences between a student in the 2020s and one in the 1920s? I hope our project finds the answer to this question!
Mya: My favorite projects we did in class were the AI colorization and ArcGIS labs, and our project focuses on concepts from both. I specifically loved looking at the photo archives, so I hope to breathe life into them by cementing them in space and time on a map, and to get an understanding of how Carleton student life functioned before me.
Sylvie: Through this project, I hope to improve my proficiency at ArcGIS because it is a dh tool I see a lot of potential and have great interest in. I also am excited about exploring the Carleton Archives and learning more about Carleton student life from the 19th and 20th centuries! So cool!
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This is a very interesting idea! This is a very helpful way to understand how to create a welcoming community here at Carleton by dissecting how students have lived on campus before. This could also help the staff at carleton visualize how students are living in certain parts of campus.
Team Student Life,
This is a great project idea, and I like how you are thinking spatially about where things happen on campus and change over time.
Starting from a spreadsheet makes the most sense, and definitely add the image URL for the IIIF contentDM links and a link back to the item, as we discussed. One thing you might consider is using the explorer map option in Storymaps. You can set up a data driven map that pulls from a feature layer with images and can be filtered and set up as a guided tour or explorer with a gallery of clickable images that pull up map locations.
To time enable the layer, you first have to enable time settings on the item details page then configure how you want it to display on the map settings. Follow this video’s instructions to figure out how.
Happy mapping!