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[RJP43]

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[PPH3]

I sincerely applaud your vigorous research. From someone who grew up in the funeral business, I know that death can be a delicate matter and your sensitivity with this project is commendable. The photos incorporate a serene tone to an otherwise grim necropolis. Record keeping and obituaries are crafts of attrition and the process of extracting this information (as Mr. Horanic has conveyed to me), is painstaking and time is not your ally. Records get lost, if they even exist at all, so congratulations on your hard work and your approach to applying a sense of history and aesthetics to such a daunting undertaking.

p.s: That terrible pun was especially for Jon. I know you love them!

[setriplette]

I love this project idea. This is a very real way of doing archival work in the field--literally. I learned things about the burial industry I didn't know, and I am impressed at the sense you all have made of the records. I'm impressed at Lauren's tagging, Jared's pictures, and Jon's data organization. Can't wait to see more mapping on Brush Creek!

I also think this has potential as a longer research project in history. It is so hard to work with ordinary people as subjects and that is just what you are doing!

[ebeshero]

Graveyard Team: Amazing work with those graveyard records! As you know, controlling for accidental errors is really challenging, and it helps to write some Schematron rules to check for basic things, like death date must be greater than birth date, etc. My advice is to write a Schematron file to check your TEI file for potential input errors. You could either write a separate Schematron file and associate it, or we can tuck the rules into your ODD. Writing a separate Schematron and associating it with your graveyard info file will be the easier of the two options for you to complete on your own!

[RJP43]

@laurenmcguigan @JaredKramer40 @jonhoranic

Really fantastic work guys! Be sure to include somewhere (either on your about page or a separate methodology page) the steps you took in archiving and reviving these messy written records. Others in the DH world will look to your project as an example of digital archiving. Much else of what I was going to comment on has already been taken care of since your presentation on Friday. Looks like there still are some adjustments to be made with the CSS (especially for the index page), but so far it is coming together nicely.
I know the data visualizations are in the works and I am excited to see how you guys choose to display them on your page.

As for the map, since this will be the main access point into where users can view the raw data for each grave, I think your ideas to have a clickable graves that brings up that grave's information is logical and will provide a really neat way of connecting people, place, and image!

@JaredKramer40 seriously fantastic photography work! @jonhoranic and @laurenmcguigan you guys have really done an immense amount of work to pull all this data together.

[msb81]

I really enjoyed your project, it was so different from Lope! @JaredKramer40, i still can't believe how much time you took to take all of the pictures. I really didnt think that would be something really important, but it really made your project 10 times better. @laurenmcguigan, I still can't believe how much information you actually put into code... That's insane! But I am immensely impressed, you're really gifted with coding. @jonhoranic, you being project leader was definitely evident. Your passion for this is infectious! I can tell how much you love this project and how important it is to you, it makes you're project so much better. Job well done!

[ahunker]

I really love the idea behind this project and am excited to see what you do with it in the future.

• @laurenmcguigan The amount of time you spent marking up information about each grave is very impressive. That should produce great graphs and I'm interested in seeing what they will tell us about people in the past, specifically their life spans and casues of death.

• @JaredKramer40 The pictures of each grave look fantastic and I think it will improve your website visually to be able to put a picture to the date you've collected. I also like the layout and color choices for your website. It's user friendly and aesthetically pleasing.

• @jonhoranic You've done a fantastic job leading the team and collecting and coding all the information about the graveyard. You've put in a lot of time and hard work to make this project a reality and I applaud you for it.

I'm also excited to see how your map turns out. Being able to see your information laid out visually will really help people you visit your sight to connect your data to the cemetary itself. I wasn't sure who will be in charge of the map so I put it down here. Great job everyone!