Category Archives: SIF Projects

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Look at all the Lights

  December 7, 2014 ,

Well it has been a great week here at the Exchange after a month hiatus in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Most of my week has been spent fine tuning the details of the Vacufuge safety video in Captivate 8.  Yep! You heard right! We have switched from Captivate 7 to Captivate 8.  And to boot I have transitioned from using a PC to a Mac.  All of this has culminated in quite the learning curve on how to navigate and to manipulate items in Captivate. And without a proper instructional video on how to use new items like the Drag and Drop interaction on a Mac, most of my time has been spent on poking around, using trial and error to find out why my interaction was not responding in the same ways as the PC version. However, after several hours and sheer persistence, I am happy to say we have it working the way we wanted it to!! Learning to customize Drag and Drop Interactions in Captivate 8 on a Mac Key take aways from the experience include: Captivate 8 tool windows are hidden until manually turned on for a Mac. In order to only have one correct answer for a Drag and Drop Interaction, you have to click on the Drop Location, click on the Format tab, click on the Object Actions… button, and then select the appropriate Drag Source Type on a Mac — not intuitive or parallel to a PC.  When you preview the file th Drag items … Continue reading

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Catch-Up

  November 23, 2014 , , ,

Well these last few weeks have been busy, to say the least. Apart from working in CURVE, I have been catching up on my group project. Babacar, Nathan, and Valerie have filmed and added a few more professors to the long list of videos and questions that we have. Currently, the next step has been to construct the playlists and note any potential improvements that can be done. Dr. Collins has organized a meeting after Thanksgiving break in order to watch some of our playlists and make any necessary corrections to them. This is an ever changing and evolving project because the end goal is to create a space in which students can get ideas and answers to some of literature’s challenging and thoughtful questions. We also want to create a space in which professors can create these videos on their own or collaboratively, so that students can receive new and different ideas and responses. Anand

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Update from the SIF Computing Team

  November 20, 2014 , ,

Last Friday night, our Hoccleve Archive team has presented our work at the SAMLA Conference held at Marriott Hotel, Buck head. The theme of this year’s conference was sustainability and our team has put in efforts to highlight the work we have done suiting the theme. It felt good meeting up people from different parts of the country. Everyone were very passionate about their works and were equally attentive to the other presentations. We have also got books and other publications for a good discounted price at the conference. Overall, it has been a memorable experience to be present at a prestigious conference like SAMLA.     This week, we also had a meeting regarding the Almanac Archive project with Lindsay Jane Eckert and Julia Grandson. We were briefed on the design part on what the team has been expecting from us. We have given them the option of choosing a platform for developing their design and explained the pros and cons of each of the platform. At the end of the meeting, we have finally decided to go ahead with the ASP.Net architecture and decided to use MS SQL Server for our database design. The team has also given us a complete picture of the number of archives available now and how many more archives might be available in the coming future. All this has led us to discussing the scalability of the project. We now need to make sure that the developed application is scalable enough to accommodate all the … Continue reading

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The Tableau Experience

  November 20, 2014 , , ,

Today I attended “The Tableau Experience.” I’ve been struggling with what to call it: a conference, a convention… It had only one speaker, and a Q&A – and a wet-bar.  So… I’m settling with ‘experience’ as they do. What it really was though, was an advertisement. Don’t get me wrong – I like using Tableau to recreate charts for the Tobacco Ebook I’m working on, and this ‘experience’ was worth it for several reasons: 1. The speaker demoed several ways to share data that I haven’t seen in action since I’ve only been using it to create charts for data sets that are already created for me.   2. There were a lot of people there from many different kinds of institutions.  I met others from universities like me – Georgia Tech, Gwinnett College, and so on. But I spent most of the time schmoozing with a lady from Home Depot, and then talked briefly to a man from a company called Norfolk. Everyone was using Tableau for something different – I’m pretty sure I was the only one making an Ebook. 3. I was able to ask about that pesky issue Ryan Cagle and I have been having in trying to get the distance between pane tick marks and labels to be exactly the same in all our charts so they’re uniform within the Ebook. Sorry, Ryan – there is no way to do this. The guy I asked said your idea was the smartest. Overall, I’m glad I went to … Continue reading

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15th Century Poetry in Buckhead: The Hoccleve Archive hits SAMLA

  November 17, 2014 ,

Last Friday night, the SIF Hoccleve team presented our work at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference, held this year in Buckhead. The conference theme this year was sustainability, and our poster highlighted the way that the Hoccleve Archive Project sustains a corpus of texts, and functions as a pedagogical sight for the sustenance of textual scholarship skills. The poster session was very attended, and we got a lot of people interested in our project. Spreading the word Besides the poster, we displayed a slideshow documenting the work we have done transforming the old HOCCLEX files into .TXT and XML formats Having now cracked the nut of opening the HOCCLEX files, we are now moving on to putting up a TEI enhanced digital edition of the poems of the holograph manuscripts. the SIF’s of the Hoccleve Archive –Dylan.