Digital Projects

Below are the digital projects I’ve worked on over the past several years. Most of these, while not very formal, highlight ways that I’ve tried to use web based tools.

Gephardt Papers

Date(s): 2006-2007.
About: As part of the Richard Gephardt Papers Project I was responsible for preserving, processing, and digitizing the collected images from Mr. Gephardt’s tenure in Congress. Collectively, a co-worker and I scanned over 2,000 images, put them on-line using OCLC’s ContentDM software, and created an EAD encoded finding aid to allow patrons to search the physical portion of the collection.
URL: http://gephardt.mohistory.org

The Graveyard

Date(s): 2006-2008.
About: Over time I’ve accumulated quite a few files and web-based projects on my hard drive. Notably, I have three “portfolio” sites sitting around from a Web Development, an Intermediate Web Development, and an Adobe Flash class that I took in grad school. Whenever I get the time, files like this “die” and go to the graveyard. To keep the URL from getting crawled (I haven’t bothered with configuring Apache to deal with redirects) the root directory is password protected. Make sure to enter graveyard for the login and public for the password.
URL: http://bengal.amillion.us

POYi Digital Library

Date(s): 2008.
About: As a side project at Mizzou I worked with Sean Burns and Dr. Kochtanek to create a digital library prototype. The library is still in progress and will probably continue to be developed over the next couple of years. It’s fully searchable, contains qualified Dublin Core metadata, and hosts 35,000 photographs dating as far back as 1943. I learned a lot about Drupal, Omeka, and MySQL working on it.
URL: http://www.poyi.org

A Wiki at Work

Date(s): 2009.
About: In March of 2009 I created a MediaWiki Wiki to track my work projects. I didn’t update it on a regular basis, but I played around with it’s as a professional information saving tool. Kinda neat, really. The bottom line? It was handy, but you need a real reason to use it on a regular basis. Otherwise it’s just another thing to do.

State Stats

Date(s): 2009.
About: An online pathfinder to various State transportation performance management publications. Basically, I created it to provide the transportation community an easy way to find benchmark data. It also was intended to supplement local work on Missouri DOT’s Tracker.
URL: http://members.mtkn.org/measures