Monthly Archives: April 2014

Planning my Omeka Exhibit!!

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I think the Lincoln Memorial plays an integral part of shaping D.C, and so I plan on making an exhibit exclusively just for the Lincoln memorial. In my exhibit i will include a modern YouTube video briefly speaking about the Lincoln Memorial and how today it is one of the greatest attractions to tourists from around the world.

To discuss what the statue means and what does it stand for, i will include a copy of a book that describes in details all the major monuments in our capital, from who created the design, to how much the construction costed, and when did the congress agree to pass the proposal of constructing all the different memorials.

I will then move on, or perhaps move back in history, all the way to when the congress put together a committee of artists to choose a location for the Lincoln Memorial, which is where Lincoln sits today, eyeing the Capital that he helped in building and preserving.

A lot of authors have said great things about Lincoln, in this book The Lincoln Room, the author have gone into details about every aspect of Lincoln’s life, his poverty, his presidency, his unfortunate assassination, all the way to where the rocks and granite were brought from to build this great memorial to commemorate such a great person in the history of the United States.

In the exhibit, i would use my google map that i created, to show The Lincoln Memorial along with other monuments and their relative positions in regards to each other.

After presenting all the information, I would also insert pictures of the original design, how it looked when it was first built, and how it looks now.

And then finally, i would end the exhibit with a short essay of what the Lincoln memorial symbolizes and how all of the information provided above comes together, to narrate a whole story about a great man that

“IN THIS TEMPLE
AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE
FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION
THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
IS ENSHRINED FOREVER”

 

 

Text-mining tools.

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Text-mining tools can be valuable, specially if you’re trying to find the most used words in a text, or you want to be able to see just the text of a said website, or article, instead of having to deal with all the different images and pictures that website might have on their page.

I, myself, found that text-mining was not very helpful to me, and that is because most of the sources that i will be using include pictures that i very much would like to see and use. Also, since my sources are primary sources from say the library of congress and the national archives, most of the time the sources are a digitized copy that i can’t insert in a text-mining tool.

On another note though, the past week have been miserable to me! I lost a dear friend in a car accident, and that just put me in shock, i haven’t been going to school for the past week, and i don’t think i will be going to school next week either. It feels like i was caught off guard, and blows just keep coming this semester.

Google Map

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Here the link to my customized Google map with the monuments that i wanted to point to.

google map

 

Creating this map was fairly easy. At first, i was waiting for almost half an hour for google to import all the data from the spreadsheet that i created, to find out later that there was a pop-up blocker preventing it from doing so. After i allowed pop-ups, the whole thing was a piece of cake.

I really enjoyed the idea of marking the map to my specific needs. I was able to add description and pictures and change the marker icons to give each specific location a unique look.

I think creating a map, with your own little description can help in showing how the important monuments kind of encircle the city of Washington D.C within their boundaries. it makes it easier to visualize how much apart are they placed and what do they overlook.Creating this map was very helpful and i will certainly use it as a visual aid to compliment my research.