{"id":3412,"date":"2020-09-22T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2020-09-23T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:07:36","slug":"seton-hall-digital-mapping-project-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2020\/09\/seton-hall-digital-mapping-project-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Seton Hall Digital Mapping Project Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Landing page for the new site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today a new digital map<\/a> of Seton Hall was launched by Walsh Library.\u00a0 This site allows users to create rich tours of sites at Seton Hall – or anywhere around the world – contextualizing the places with photographs, text, and even audio and video recordings.\u00a0 The introductory tour<\/a>\u00a0 builds on an existing set of digitized historic postcards of South Orange and Seton Hall that resided in the Library\u2019s e-Repository<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cThe postcards were well digitized, and had very detailed, searchable data in the e-Repository.\u00a0 But this format allows for a more interactive way for the community to explore the collection,\u201d according to Sarah Ponichtera, Assistant Dean for Special Collections and the Gallery.<\/p>\n

The project took shape when archives staff, along with the rest of the university, suddenly shifted to remote work in the spring and sought ways to connect the campus community with archival collections during this difficult period.\u00a0 Technical Services Archivist Sheridan Sayles researched digital mapping products that might suit Seton Hall, and settled on Curatescape, an open-source product.\u00a0 \u201cCuratescape allows users to connect historic images of sites and objects with their location, essentially weaving in historical stories to the every day places we pass by.\u201d according to Sayles.\u00a0 Over the spring and summer, Sayles and Library Collection Developer Zachary Pelli worked to get the site installed and import the images and data from the e-Repository.\u00a0 With the help of a remote intern from Southern Connecticut State University, Amanda Damon, they populated the site with 53 locations (called stories) that can be connected in tours, found using subject tags, and enriched over time as more content is integrated into the site.\u00a0 Constructing the locations as stories allows for more flexibility – a particularly rich object, such as the stained glass windows in the Chapel, could be its own story even though it is still part of the Chapel location.\u00a0 A story could even be built around a person with a long history on campus.<\/p>\n

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Page for Stafford Hall, one of 53 unique locations, or “stories” on the site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Library welcomes suggestions from the community for ways to develop and expand the site.\u00a0 It may be suited for tours developed in courses, adapted to create a virtual tour of campus for those unable to visit in person, or become a center for alumni to contribute their memories of campus.\u00a0 Due to its home in the Monsignor William Noe Field Archives, content contributed to the digital map will be preserved in the University Archives as part of the history of Seton Hall.\u00a0 According to University Archivist Alan Delozier, “within this time of quarantine, the value of this initiative is all the more important for those who cannot visit the school grounds at present, but the long term value of this project will continue to attract attention from students, faculty, and other individual across campus along with external users alike.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today a new digital map of Seton Hall was launched by Walsh Library.\u00a0 This site allows users to create rich tours of sites at Seton Hall – or anywhere around the world – contextualizing the places with photographs, text, and even audio and video recordings.\u00a0 The introductory tour\u00a0 builds on an existing set of digitized … Continue reading “Seton Hall Digital Mapping Project Launched”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}