Author Archives: SC Lucier (Luci)

DH Praxis Final Paper Immigrant Newspapers   Group Members Sandy Mui: Research and Development Sandy contributed to the Immigrant Newspapers project as a Developer, overseeing the conception and composition of the website that houses the digital collection of newspapers, based on her experience with WordPress and website management. Like other group members, she also contributed […]

This week in Immigrant Newspapers, we have been fine-tuning our public-facing website as we continue to build all of the profile pages of our newspapers. We have made the decision to add another page to our site to independently house the interactive map. Originally, we thought it would be possible to house the map within […]

This week for Immigrant Newspapers, it’s all about the website building! Work is basically a continuation of last week, with significantly more progress. We have created our first profile page for a newspaper and are halfway through the creation of the homepage. The map itself is nearly done, and when that is ready this weekend […]

This week, Immigrant Newspapers has made some really great progress. We are at the crucial point of pulling together all of our hard work so far and publishing. We have purchased our Domain and successfully installed the WordPress theme that was chosen. Most of the decisions have been made regarding the language that will be […]

This week, we have made quite a few positive advancements for immigrant newspapers! We are working really hard in this critical moment of realization of the project. The group agreed on a WordPress theme that works for us and incorporates all of the elements that we were hoping for on our website. We can upload […]

Immigrant  Newspapers A clear deadline and plan for launching your public-facing site/social media accounts Deadline for Social Media launch: March 30 List at least 5 post ideas with text by March 23 – planning of first few posts Make a production and posting schedule for the account Assign posting in partnership with schedule Deadline for […]

Our social media target audience is scholarly collaborators and the general public. We hope that having a social media presence will increase web traffic to our page, as well as present the potential for submitted materials and research by visitors. The platform we have decided to use is Instagram. It seems that because we are […]

Roles and Responsibilities The implementation, monitoring, and adhering to the data management plan will be a collective effort. This is primarily due to the means by which our team has been acquiring the data for some 150 publications – from using Chronicling America as a starting point for background information to gathering visuals through microfilm […]

Group Project Report and Updated Work Plan Timeline of Deliverables Week 4: Reach out to NYPL research librarian and possibly other individuals Finalize domain name  Explore WordPress platform and possibility of Omeka and Neatline Week 5: Finalize online research of newspaper databases Determine whether to drop any languages Contact ethnic organizations, university departments Week 6: […]