Project meeting
Yesterday the project team met at Swansea University with three of our advisors – Rob Barrett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sue Hughes (Grosvenor Museum, Chester) and Simon Ward (Chester Archaeology) – to share our progress and gather some feedback on our work so far.
This was an important opportunity for us all to report on work in progress and celebrate what we’ve achieved so far. It was also quite a nail-biting moment, as Paul revealed the first glimpses of how the texts will look on the website, and showed us how the CCH team envisage inter-linking the texts and the map. This was something that the less technically-minded of us (myself most definitely included!) had been eagerly (and nervously) anticipating. The initial samples we’ve seen look really effective and really do enable the different source materials to relate meaningfully to each other.
Obviously, a particular aim of this meeting was to gain feedback from our advisors on how the project is progressing. In particular, our advisory team were able to make informed suggestions about how our different audiences might use the web materials and how we can make them accessible and user-friendly.
The meeting was exhausting, but very productive, and it’s really exciting seeing the project materials come together. We ended the day with well-deserved drinks in the local pub – and a rather different (but equally intense) discussion about Doctor Who past and present…
Keith shows us some of the current mapping work
Another one for the album...
March 13th, 2009 at 12:37 am
I’ve finally been able to crawl out from under the stack of administrative work that met me on my return to the States, and I’d just like to thank you for the chance to come out to Swansea and take part in the meeting. As I hope I indicated at the time, the project looks like a hit in the making. (Even if I look like the quintessential corn-fed American farmboy in the photo above the fold . . .)