Fall 2008 Digitising Hampshire Individual Work Section

Listed by individual students in the Digitising Hampshire EPEC course/independent study.

Fred Concklin
9-12


 * Work on automating export of comma-separated files from Hampshire calendar. First stage of PHP script working, automates exporting everything from Hamp calendar it CSV.

9-19


 * Get calendar files ported into Hampedia. Start with personal calendars, and then get a widget for the main page.

10-02


 * ABSENT

10-08


 * Arrived at 430. Has pneumonia. =( Is working on the calendar and looking at Semantic Wiki. Need to figure out how to store in categories, how to set up system from the MediaWiki side.
 * I have found a mediawiki calendar extension that will serve as the foundation for the actual hampedia calendar extension.
 * www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Calendar
 * The extension depends on Sematic Mediawiki, which will allow lexical categorization of content, therefore allowing "tags" of content to automatically appear on the calendar.

10-24


 * as well as ongoing projects, is going to chronicle all the cool things going on in the Media Basement and put it on Hampedia. He is talking to John Bruner.

10-31


 * Spoke with people in the Media Basement. The Media Basement page will be done by next Friday.
 * Want to make homepage more navigable. If we had a feed that people could subscribe to and get emails, it would be more interactive.
 * Concerning the calendar, is working on it with John. Changes can be made in a few hours, but it is on Pitus, so only Niko has access normally.

11-7


 * Played with event times on calendars, making the times work correctly. Still troubleshooting.
 * Made template for "in class," so that there can be distinct calendars so that the toggling feature can work. Presently sampling it.
 * What's next?
 * Focus on making more things semantic, tagging information, so that it's easy to query information.
 * Looping constructs.
 * Wildcards and piping in the semantic wiki.

11-14


 * Absent, most definitely excused. Hope things are going well...
 * John and I have gotten individual user pages to have specific calendars
 * Look into adding preexisting Hampshire calendar events onto semantic calendar - crontastic
 * Listened to more aphex twin than usual

11-21


 * Looking at how to integrate Drupal and MediaWiki. Fred thinks that the Drupal installations will wane over time.
 * Will work with John on calendar for next week.

12-05 


 * Been working on the Media Basement.
 * For next week, deal with some of the semantic wiki problems that he has come across.

Future Plans - Rest of Semester to be listed upon completion of projects 


 * Continue working on semantic calendar
 * Include work from anomos wiki with John in Hampedia upon stable semantic calendar forms
 * Work with and pursue installation of Semantic Forms extension
 * Move Hampshire Media Lab information to Hampedia from Keylist / talk with Johns
 * Run python bot on hampedia to add semantic data to all user pages / ease calendar generation for users
 * Look into fckeditor problem with javascript overwriting semantic data
 * Example semantic calendar can be seen hereAnomos Wiki

Jose Fuentes
9-12


 * Do structure of what need to do in terms of documenting. Digitising Hampshire Structure

9-19


 * Finish structure for all buildings, offices, etc.

10-03


 * Digitizing Hampshire Structure is being finished. Also finish all the templates.

10-08


 * ABSENT. Have fun in Guatemala!

10-24


 * Arrived late, at 4. Almost finished with Digitising Hampshire Structure. Going to work on the student groups next.

10-31


 * ABSENT. Tsk tsk.

11-7


 * Taking detailed photos of Cole. Also working on student tutorials, planning on printing fliers to put in all of the students' doors inviting them to use Hampedia, which also lists times for live tutorials (work with Ananda on this). Also, collecting student group info, will put it up on Hampedia.
 * Director of Communications likes Hampedia, uses it often. Job to "sell" Hampshire, shows Division IIIs. Negotiating having links on main Hampshire pages go to Hampedia.
 * President really happy about Hampedia, incoming students are choosing Hampshire because of Hampedia, they are making connections and getting interested in Hampshire!! 70 people said that's a big part of why they came to Hampshire!! We REALLY need to make an effort to make our final product a very good product.

11-14


 * Check out Cole Science Center for template for buildings.
 * Adding student group info to group pages. What to do about listing signers on Hampedia? Question- can we have group recognition include filing out Hampedia student groups? Can it be part of the official group process?
 * For next week, will finish adding student group info.
 * If OpenLayers thing is up, will finish doing building template.

11-21


 * Contacting dspace div3 students for permission to put up their div3s
 * Finishing putting up student group info for next week
 * Looking at Citadel, it's great because we can do LDAP, it can be the new content management system for Hamp students (similar to Gmail but open source)
 * Finish up templates for all the buildings if OpenLayers worked

12-05


 * Working with Ananda trying to figure out how to best organize Hampedia; redo the main page, etc.
 * Worked with Niko to get Chat and BreadCrumbs up
 * For next week, will bring in proposal for how we are going to display the information.

Rest of the semester

 * Move all the Div III's from Hampshire's DSpace to Hampedia and turn them both into PDF and wiki text. Get permission from the authors to do so.
 * Finish up all the pages for student groups (almost 150 pages!).
 * Templates for offices and buildings with coordinates capability.

Niko Kern
9-12


 * Document the past and future of ornia, as well as accessible instructions on how to use ornia.

The result is five separate articles about ornia:


 * 1) ornia for general information and background of the project
 * 2) ornia Portal for easy instructions on using the different services of ornia (still under construction)
 * 3) Examining Anonymity Online (Birth of ornia) examines early ornia history with a copy of the essay which yielded ornia's existence as a tangible project
 * 4) Accomplished thus far ~ ornia displays a list of completed accomplishments throughout ornia's history up to the present
 * 5) To be continued.... ~ ornia is a to-do list for ornia to advance as a project

9-19


 * Document the past and future of Hampedia's technological developments, create to-do lists for both technological changes to be made, as well as a to-add list for content (the latter of which could be immensely helpful for us).

The results are mostly completed, but yet to be uploaded in the case of the first two articles:


 * 1) Accomplished thus far ~ Hampedia contains technological developments that have been implemented in order to further expand the capabilities and functionality of Hampedia
 * 2) To be continued.... ~ Hampedia lists all of the things that have no yet been accomplished that must be completed in order to make Hampedia easier to use or simply more powerful and elegant in nature
 * 3) What Does Hampedia Need Next? is an article listing bullet point of ideas (many with descriptions) of things to digitise. This page is very relevant to our coursework and is a good source for ideas of what to do next once completing a task.  Feel free to expand this page with ideas of your own.

9-26


 * Streamline a process by which videos from my HDR-SR12 can be transcoded, uploaded, and displayed/distributed successfully. Hampedia needs more video content!
 * Work with Ian on the directory: use admin privs to grant Ian access to a bot account which can mass create articles based off of his useful script he conjured up.
 * Work with Fred on calendering: what are all functionalities of the Intranet calender which need to be replicated? Would a preexisting MediaWiki calendering extension be best for displaying the data Fred figured out how to import from the Intranet calendar?
 * Check with John on the OCR process. Survey the library and record the different types of documents which would be useful to use OCR on.  What hardware would we need to scan the hard copies?  What is the best way to import the results of the OCR scanning into Hampedia?  OpenDocument and PDF seem to be the best filetypes to choose, perhaps Djvu as well?

'NOTE: anything after this week (the current week) is tentative, and subject to change. Other priorities may spring up, or new projects started by others in Digitising Hampshire may influence my direction. What follows is a list of things I would like to see completed by priority.'

10-03


 * Ensure that all information in the public directory is digitised and all staff people, faculty, and students have pages with basic contact information and names. Work with Ian on this.
 * Get in touch with Ben to ensure all currect courses are listed and organised correctly by this week.
 * Contact Hampshire College's lawyer about the disclaimers page I wrote, specifically the Terms of Service. Get written word from him on record that says Hampedia, Hampedia Board of Trustees, Hampshire College, and Hampshire Colleg Board of Trustees are legally protected by the Terms of Service.

10-10


 * Create Pattern Diver page to hype up his arrival on campus for Hampshire Halloween, and to provide a complete collection of all recordings I've made of his shows. Once completed, Pattern Diver will become the new spotlight on Hampedia's Main Page (after ornia).
 * Get a copy of NSNS rulebook onto Hampedia, as well as any past ones Student Services may have available.
 * Document the Surveillance Camery Controversy of 2007.

10-17


 * Interview Leslie and Nancy at the Farm Center. Get information about CSA, the animals, the vegetables, and the things the farm produces. Digitise it!


 * Talk to Mixed Nuts. Get a copy of the order catalog onto Hampedia, as well as a menu of current items, with pictures of each one with corresponding prices. Mixed Nuts needs to be more accessible.

10-24


 * Compile key list of people who should be interviewed. Some of them need to be asked questions for informational purposes, some of them would be beneficial to have a video recording of in the interview on Hampedia.
 * Create pages for oddball cool things about campus: the sculpture in the front, the walkway in the sky behind Prescott (Interview Brian Schultz), and the Zen garden come to mind. History, descriptions, and multimedia content for each is required.

10-31 (Happy Halloween!) 

Will we really meet today? I don't know. Maybe we will. Benjamin Mako Hill might come to campus today. He should have intelligent ideas and guiding wisdom. Pattern Diver will, I'm making sure of it (I'm on COCA now). That's cool.

11-07


 * Interview Bob Crowley An article on the Internet connection of Hampshire College, paying special attention to the switch from Paetech as our ISP to a Five College fiber loop down to Springfield.
 * Begin cataloguing chemicals available in Cole Science Center.
 * Since last week, he went through and took photos of all the doors, halls, and bathrooms in the dorms. Has gone through and changed and redirected ALL the mod names, for greater usability. Renamed all the dorm halls as well. Organized all the photos and file names and began uploading them. Goal in doing this is so that there can be photos of all the cool random graffiti and decorations, documentation of all this neat little things.
 * For next week: make pages for all the halls, bathrooms, put up the photos, and have a master list on the dorm/mod main pages. When it's done, we should make a spotlight about it.
 * For next week, will make a backup of Hampedia and Ornia.

11-14


 * Continue cataloguing chemicals.
 * Search for blueprints of buildings.
 * Catalogue Lemelson machines.

11-21


 * Going to put photos of dorms, etc onto pages over break, with templates that have semantic data.
 * Going to take pictures of inside the rooms as well.
 * Interviewing Leslie Cox.

12-05


 * Added a ton of extensions.
 * Will finish putting dorm photos up on Hampedia.
 * Will make tutorial for putting up movie files.

Adam Krellenstein
For a list of photographs I have uploaded, see my contributions page. See also the list of photographs still to be taken.

9-12


 * Take photos of buildings, catalog which have and have not taken, sort them.

9-19


 * Finish going through photos and put them up on Hampedia, figure out a way to do real panoramas. Take more photographs.

10-03


 * Continued working on photos, do the photography of all the buildings he has listed.

10-08


 * Continued working on photos. Start uploading them on to Hampedia.

10-24


 * FINALLY getting all the photos onto Hampedia. wooohoo!!

10-31


 * Getting photos up on Hampedia.
 * Will take over bot project from Ian.

11-7


 * Worked with Perl script since last week, trying to script a way to upload all the photos automatically. Made first batch of photos. Got the Perl bot to work with Commons, but not with Hampedia. Now Ian is working with Pybot.
 * For next week, make a bot and pull all of the spring course info from the PDF and put it up on Hampedia.
 * Put the (now uploaded) photographs into articles. Tag them with semantic data?
 * Will take over bot project from Ian; will use the bot to upload the list of Spring '09 courses.

11-20


 * Wrote a bash script with regex to make the creation of Courses - Spring 2009 much easier.
 * Going to have all the course pages finished, with the template and course description.
 * Will begin adding photos to pages once Jose finishes building templates.

12-05


 * Still needs to finish script for pulling course info.
 * Photographed Five College book repository.
 * Finish adding photos to pages.

Ian McEwen
9-12


 * How to write script to pull info from public directory and hopefully put it into wiki format. (script is done, and relatively simple; it grabs from the directory and outputs a wikitext table, at the moment (using curl/grep/sed, for the curious). I'll be working on making it intelligent about changes to the directory, and on making it manageable as data -- in other words, something other than just one huge table. You can find the script here and the table it creates here)

9-19


 * Keep working directory, how to categorize it, how to deal with changes made to it, keep ones that get deleted. Set up categories, pagination. Go through and do redirects for all of the SS meetings.

9-26


 * Redirects for faculty pages, learning more about pywikipediabot, the primary bot framework for use with Hampedia.

10-03


 * Want to refine the open directory, link it into Hampedia's category system. Make bot for cleaning out professor templates (done, see any faculty page's history). Using LDAP database to create pages automatically (needs to talk to Niko).

10-08


 * Continuing work on using LDAP to create automatic user pages and redirects.
 * Doing all sorts of cool stuff with Semantic MediaWiki, and planning to do a lot more. Case in point: User:ihm08/Semantic Schema

10-24


 * ABSENT. In Boston for another class.
 * LDAPbot ran, and there are now pages for all alumni, as well as redirects for basically everyone.
 * Still working with Semantic MediaWiki; giving a tutorial next week.

10-31


 * Focusing in further on Semantic MediaWiki
 * Finalizing the Semantic Schema
 * Creating templates (e.g. Template:Facilitates EPEC class) for each Property listed in the schema individually, as well as higher-level templates for better user consumption****
 * Learning how to use the Semantic Forms extension to create form pages (most likely, partial forms to play around with existing pages) to streamline messing around with new, shiny semanticized templates.

11-7


 * LDAPbot ran to create staff, faculty, student pages that didn't already exist

11-14


 * Finish adapting LDAPbot to include data from the directory and to deal with changing pages (rather than merely adding pages). It should:
 * Deal with the change from student-alumni well (or changes between person-categories more generally)
 * Include everything public directory has plus extension
 * Expand semantic templates to handle places (e.g. Dakin J307) and create place pages for everything. Perhaps a PlaceBox.
 * Still working on this.

11-21


 * Changing basic boxes (studentbox, facultybox, coursebox, et cetera) to be completely semantic; use bot to fix existing instances of these templates to conform.
 * Ian is terribly behind right now. He intends to catch up on all his work by next week.

12-5


 * Add additional templates to input various types of semantic data in a variety of contexts; use Semantic Forms to create forms to create and edit pages using these templates (partial forms, mostly?)

12-12

John Schanck
9-12


 * Look into seeing if anywhere in Five Colleges has a fancy book scanner, and how we can get access to it. Get contact! Write script for OCR documents to put onto Hampedia. Look into Open Cog.
 * He wrote script to take different kinds of files and convert them into wiki markup, but needs to get a better sense of what docs we will be working with. No book scanner anywhere near here, but the OCR should be able to understand Duplications-quality scanning.

9-19


 * Further automating the OCR work on some documents that we want on Hampedia, makes a Documents page on Hampedia.

10-03


 * EPC Division 1 Report has been put up on Hampedia. Is working on other documents, will create a system for putting up OCR documents.

10-08


 * Talk to Susan Dayall about archives. Going to concentrate on going to digital copies of all the documents, concentrate on that first. Try to make documents searchable, pull out all the text. Look at better search extensions for Hampedia.

10-24


 * ABSENT. Having issues getting this to count for his SS req. Ananda will talk to Bob Rakoff about how this!

10-31


 * Working with Fred on the calendar.
 * Still needs to talk to Susan Dayall.

11-7


 * Has added many awesome features to calendar. Also been working with Niko taking photos.
 * Calendar now displays time beneath event
 * Sat down with Fred and determined semantic tags/groupings we'll need to implement a calender with all of the features of the intranet calendar.
 * Began looking at Semantic Forms

11-14


 * Continue work on the calendar, design templates that allow for easy semantic tagging.
 * Experiment with Semantic Forms
 * Talk to Susan Dayall about getting Hampshire's archives on, or available through, Hampedia
 * Changes to calendar will go up today on Hampedia

11-21


 * Finish up the calendar work (Source code)
 * Hopefully begin getting documents online
 * More semantic tagging!
 * Looking at more complex ways of displaying the calendar, for month, week, day, etc. The calendar should be completely done by the next meeting.
 * Spoke with Susan Dayall about putting up the archives. She does not want what she has written on Hampedia. Jose doesn't see the necessity of asking for permission.

11-28


 * Continue with documents

12-5


 * Will be integrating calendar features into the new calendar extension, and intends to have it all finished by the end of the semester.

12-12

Charles Swank
9-12


 * Begin researching history of FPH and the library. Meet with Susan Dayall. Did not do work because was unsure of whether he could take this course.

9-19


 * Get profile page done, AND make up work from last time!

10-03


 * Contacting Hampshire Alum, Mark A. Oribello, who wrote "Building the Perfect Monster: A Construction History of Hampshire," to see if he will allow us to publish his Div3 on Hampedia in articles on the different buildings. Bug him next week if he doesn't get in touch (phone: 401 863 7696).
 * Update and add to buildings pages, do basic descriptions and add links to each office in the building. Find out open hours, basic description, names of people who work there and their job titles.
 * Give Div3 to Duplications to scan.

10-08


 * ABSENT. Emailed Ananda and let her know. Have fun in Boston! ^-^

10-24


 * Going to continue going through Digitizing Hampshire Structure and updating all the pages.

10-31


 * Waiting for the electronic copy of Mark Oribello's Div. III to start doing building histories
 * In the meantime, going to continue updating as much of Digitizing Hampshire Structure as possible
 * Will ask Niko about Mark Oribello

11-7


 * If Mark Oribello's Div. III is not available yet, going to continue filling out Digitizing Hampshire Structure with the goal of finishing it for next class
 * If Mark's Div. III is available, going to begin putting it up on Hampedia
 * Added info to a ton of pages for different buildings. Intends to do Blair Hall and Library and House offices, and related offices within all of that, for next week.

11-14

Have finished creating pages for the Johnson Library Center and all subcategories on Digitising Hampshrie Structure, Blair Hall, the Five House Offices, and hopefully others.


 * Maybe start with Mark's Div III if we have it
 * For next class, focus on finishing creating pages for the rest of Digitising Hampshrie Structure
 * Make sure to use the Cite extension (learn more about it at https://hampedia.org/wiki/Special:Version)
 * Going to work on Merril and Dakin for next week.

11-21


 * Finish Merril and Dakin
 * Start FPH

11-28


 * Have FPH finished
 * Start Cole

12-5

Have Cole finished
 * Start EDH

12-11

Have EDH finished

Ben Tavares
9-12


 * Ensure full SS course listing is up. Update professor and course descriptions for SS by THURSDAY. Create a form for professors, and another for course pages. Worked with Niko to ensure that "Courses" page lists Fall 2008 pages, other ones are listed by their semester.

9-19


 * Finish courses for social science. Keep on adding info to professors' profiles. Make a template page for professor profile.

10-03


 * Has finished professor pages, now working on course websites.

10-08


 * ABSENT. Emailed Ananda and let her know. Have fun in Boston! ^-^

10-24


 * ABSENT. ???

10-31


 * Have listed all of the courses. Finished SS, CS, NS. By next week, will have finished HACU and IA.
 * For next week, figure out what new project want to undertake.

11-7


 * Continue adding content for course pages for Fall 2008.
 * Added all the course pages to list, realized that doing full info would take way too long. Now intends to do professor interviews, intends to write up draft of interview script and begin scheduling appointments with professors for next week.

11-14

Present my interview script draft. Revise and begin contacting professors.

11-21 ~ 12-11

Do video interviews of professors/administrators who have been at Hampshire for 20 or more years to learn more about Hampshire's founding and history.

Tentative Questions for Professors (ROUGH) 1. What major changes have you seen since you came here? 2.Do you feel the student body has changed much, if at all? 3.What brought you to Hampshire and what keeps you here? 4.Do you think Hampshire achieves its goal as an “experimenting” college? 5.How do you feel as a constant member of a community that is constantly in flux? 6.Where do you see Hampshire going? Based on your knowledge of how Hampshire works, do you have any predictions for the future? 7.What were some of your more memorable moments as a professor, researcher or advisor? 8.What topics does your work consist of? 9.What have been some of your favorite classes/subjects to teach? Why? 10.What do you think of Hampedia? 11.What would you like to change about Hampshire, if anything?

Tentative List of Faculty

Neil Stillings Lynn Miller Herb Bernstein Ken Hoffman David Kelly Stan Warner Gai Carpenter Lester Meiser Robert Meagher Bobby Stuart Ray Coppinger Charles Longsworth Bob Rakoff Bill Brand Ernie Alleva and his partner Lisa Merle Bruno Roberta Jim Wald

12-05


 * Working with Joe Fenstermaker to do the interviews.

Ananda Valenzuela
9-12


 * Make Hampedia professor tutorial, make live presentation for Thursday, present! Please check out Simple Hampedia Tutorial for Professors and give feedback. ^-^

9-19


 * Send some docs to John to do OCR on. Continue doing one-on-one tutorials and schedule meetings with the other schools. Email everyone to get times they can help do tutorials. Progress in each school:
 * SS: Presented for 5 minutes at meeting, gave tutorial to a small group of professors. Will have another announcement at next School meeting.

9-26


 * Physically absent, unfortunately. Continue doing one-on-one tutorials and schedule meetings with the other schools. Creating straightforward handout for professor use. Progress:
 * NS: Presenting on Monday's NS meeting at noon (sometime between noon and 130). All are invited to come (bring your laptop!), please email me and let me know you're coming!
 * Will present at Oct 3 IA meeting.
 * HACU: Awaiting Dean's approval.
 * CS: Still trying to get time to give announcement.

10-03


 * Continuing doing the presentations, beginning work on staff/alum tutorials.
 * Notes: do alum tutorial, ask for where they work, projects, etc. on tutorials have list of things you can do on hampedia (office hour signup sheet, etc). Just have "staff" tutorial, no special one for administration.

10-08


 * Working on Simple Hampedia Tutorial for Staff and Hampshire College page, as well as continuing tutorials.

10-24


 * Has to contact and set up individual tutorials with a ridiculous number of HACU and IA professors. Also going to talk to Bob Rakoff about this counting as the SS req, and hopefully spend some time updating the Hampshire College page as well..

10-31


 * Will be meeting with HACU and IA professors to do one-on-one tutorials, beginning next week. Goal: Have all of them done in two weeks, by 11-14.
 * Will go through and revise all of the tutorials to reflect any changes due to the updates to Hampedia, including Semantic Wiki. Goal: Finish in one week, by 11-7.

11-7


 * Create alum tutorial. Ideally, discuss with alumni relations so that the tutorial is ideal.

11-14


 * Review staff tutorials and make plans to give presentations to different offices on campus (Student Services, Alumni Relations, Admissions, School secretaries, etc). This may mean significant discussions concerning how best to approach staff from different departments and how to convince each area of the utility of Hampedia.

11-21


 * Present to CS professors, and set up times to give them tutorials (to be scheduled within one week).
 * Schedule staff tutorials.
 * Plan presentations for students. Discuss with group- how can we best engage students? What format would be ideal? How can we advertise the tutorials so that students will show up? Schedule tutorial(s) before Thanksgiving Break.

11-28


 * Review amount of professor participation on Hampedia, and strategize as to how to get more professors on Hampedia (Online office sign-up, innovative applications to courses, etc)
 * Continue working with staff. Goal: to meet with at least three offices before the end of the year.


 * Turkey Break!

12-05


 * Begin making goals for the spring. Possible direction: Lemelson Center, cataloging both its physical equipment and its many innovative programs, as well as its history.
 * Ensure that by this point, all professors know about Hampedia and have been offered ample chances to receive a tutorial.

12-11


 * Last week of classes! Review goals and work from entire semester, see what still needs accomplishing. Make plans for the spring. ^-^