Category: tooling
We have a new design treatment for the site. Here are some notes on the design, the process of implementing it, and some reflections on process and goals.
With the metadata and the digitized facsimiles nearing completion, we've started re-considering how this website is arranged, how it looks, and how it works. Here are some notes and reflections on our decision making, and how it is implemented in Eleventy.
Using OpenRefine (again) to wrangle big ugly spreadsheets into nice tidy YAML data: cautionary tales and successes both!
JT's reflections on a summer-term RAship developing and integrating some tools for the project -- including our IIIF viewer app -- and developing a system for wrangling the big, ugly spreadsheets we used to gather metadata for the volumes in the collection, turning that spreadsheet data into a set of tidy YAML data files for this online website.
An appreciation of the wealth of digital resources that we take advantage of today, in comparison to what this work would have looked like a generation ago.
A second installment on data wrangling, leading to the development of a pipeline from big ugly spreadsheet to structured data on a big collection of web pages, using OpenRefine, python, and Eleventy.
Wrangling metadata for the Aldine collection, and some reflection on tools along the way: thoughts on Notion, OpenRefine, YAML, and other things.
Some technical notes on setting up this website and development workflow. Also: nice typography.
Some early (Feb 2024) thinking about the tech infrastructure for this project: web hosting, image repositories, website infrastructure, and so on.