Religious Life in Venice (circ 1670)

Exploring the geography and print culture of Venetian Religious Experience, in a tile-based mapping app.

[PROJECT DEMO] Coming Soon, see here for prototype 1 (50% front-end interactions).

Project Team

Development

Meg Studer - of Siteations Studios

Extended Curatorial/Research members @ Newberry

Exhibitions and Major Projects at the Newberry

Diane Dillion - Director,
Anne Champagne - Program Assistant, Christopher D. Fletcher - Mellon Major Project Fellow

Northwestern University

Ed Muir - Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor of History and Italian

Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry

James Ackerman - Director

Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry

Lia Markey - Director

Core Features

Customized 'clone' of leaflet/react-leaftlet for large scale, non-projected imagery

(i.e. similar to storyMap, but with animated/non-animated browsing options and customized clustering/highlights/symbols of info/imagery/markers)

Combines svg, map-tiles, and db/redux-store filtering methods for:

• advanced image filters,
• custom clipping masks/area highlights,
• and react driven data handling, to move beyond simple point-based site mapping, for non-projected maps.

(Will include) Administrator-based point editing and addition (CMS) for:

• scholarly updates/build-out of resource narratives
• on-going use and/or adaptation for other projects with minimal maintenance time
• streamlined contributions from the research, curatorial, and development team in the lead-up to fall 2017 exhibitions.

Front End Overview

to come

Back End Overview

to come

Quirks

Front End

• largely resolved. refactoring in progress...

Back End

• Due to Newberry Library's hosting set-up (a version on CentOS 6), the back-end is set up to work with MySQL 5.5... (i.e. an older version). Any revision of the code for independent use will simply include sample json/csv data and the ability to read from files vs. generic api calls.

Under Active Construction!