Over the course of this project, our team set out to create a digital archive that would preserve and interpret the long-standing tradition of Devil-Goat Day at the University of Mary Washington! As outlined in our original contract, our goal was not only to document the history of the event,…
We are finishing up revisions on the website in accordance with the given annotations. Today I am going in and adding citations to the text on the 1960’s page as well as amending other errors in the main body text.
The timeline has been set up by Cora, and the final correspondence with special collections has been done, meaning we have most of our primary sources! (photos, documents, memorabilia, etc.) Most of the time, forward will be working on metadata, correcting citations, standardizing titles and other file information, and sorting.
Our site is almost up!! kinda… We are pulling together the last pieces of MetaData, labels, and filling out the final structures of the website. See it soon!
As the centennial approaches, so does the deadline for our work. Cora and I are working on implementing metadata for our artifact entries and the individual interpretative labels. Our timeline is also done, and we have started a social media countdown until DGD!
The major difference for historians in an increasingly digital world is that nearly every aspect of the historical process, from accessing sources to sharing research, is now mediated through technology. For instance, digitization and search engines have transformed history from one of scarcity to one of overwhelming abundance. New techniques…
As we continue in the development of our archival and exhibition site, we have encountered a few problems with the artefact and archival aspect while working with Simpson Library: At this time, what we do have going to us:
The skills I’ve been employing in this course are among the most beneficial for real-world and academic history work I have learned. The application of history to a digital format allowed research, ideas, and information to be shared in an accessible way, and the ability to create that format is…
The Devil-Goat Day Digital History Project explores more than a century of one of the University of Mary Washington’s most beloved traditions. Beginning in 1926, students created a playful rivalry between graduating classes: those in odd-numbered years became “Devils,” while those in even-numbered years became “Goats.” What started as a…
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