Comments for THATCamp New Souths 2014

Comment on Online Storytelling / What’s Your Story? notes by When Worlds Collide: Writing, Art, Academe, and the Story at the Heart of It All | J. T. Glover

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:25:35 +0000

[…] about the New South, social justice, and technology. One of the threads that ran through it was new ways of telling stories, and while I did have a part in weaving in that particular thread, I didn’t do so for […]

Comment on Jackson Ward, then and now by Visualizing Jackson Ward: From Start to Finish | Bionic Teaching

Visualizing Jackson Ward: From Start to Finish | Bionic Teaching — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:05:49 +0000

[…] read Erin White’s1 THAT Camp proposal about capturing modern images to parallel VCU’s Jackson Ward […]

Comment on Jackson Ward, then and now by Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:31:40 +0000

Tom, that slider is a world of righteous–thanks so much on working that out. Brilliant!

Comment on Jackson Ward, then and now by Tom

Tom — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:34:15 +0000

Here's the JW stuff getting up with a slider.

Comment on Jackson Ward, then and now by Tom

Tom — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 03:39:21 +0000

I'd love that. I took Eric up on finding a useable example of the slider element and built a quick demo using a jquery plugin- it's here. So if we decide to it, we're good to go on the display end.

Comment on Content Note: know what’s in your movies by Sonya Coleman

Sonya Coleman — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:45:44 +0000

have you heard of the representation project? they have some tools that might help you get started. therepresentationproject.org/resources/tools/
i can see that organization and maybe others being interested in this sort of app.

Comment on Jackson Ward, then and now by Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:55:08 +0000

Such a cool idea. I love before-and-after shots, and Jackson Ward in particular has such a rich and complex history. I’d love to take part in this.

The Washington Post has used a slick photo display “slider” that lets users grab a little handle and wipe back and forth to see new and old photos in the same space. I’ll see if I can find an example (and perhaps an open source version of the same).

(As an aside, I can further imagine a kind of artistic version of overlapping images with old elements poking into new pictures or new elements emerging into old ones. Hmmm.)

Comment on something about mapping by John Glover

John Glover — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:00:57 +0000

I’m interested in this, both from a user and a librarian perspective. I think it’s a great and, in some ways, untapped tool for interactive engagement. I’ve seen and participated in IRL mapping outreach like this any number of times — places where I put a pin on a map to indicate where I’m from, etc. And we do this for some digital collections, but I wonder both if it actually leaves users feeling engaged, and if there are other ways to map beyond obvious geographic tie ins (photo sets, e.g.).

Comment on Call for hashtag by Tom

Tom — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:03:22 +0000

Works for me.

Comment on Call for hashtag by Alice W. Campbell

Alice W. Campbell — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:04:06 +0000

Sounds good to me.