Courtney S. Danforth
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Rare
Book Digital Editions
My responsibilities for the
creation of these digital republications include supervision of the initial
archival scanning and the creation of WWW deliverable JPEGs, the architecture
for each title, the decorative or navigational elements, and the setting
together of all the project components. The History of Science and Natural
History rare book collections are a part of the Special Collections of
the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
The
Robert Johnson Notebooks
Created as a resource and publication
space for a University of Virginia English Department class, Mississippi
in Story and Song. My work included site architecture, graphics, digitization
of text and audio clips, and working in partnership for a client.
The
Tibetan Book of the Dead
One of the exhibits from Special
Collections of the University of Virginia Library. The site design and
coding are my work, as are 90% of the artifact digital photographs. Awards
received include: Yahoo Pick of the Day (2/19/98), and USA Today Hot Site
of the Day (2/20/98).
"Make
the Dirt Fly!" Building the Panama Canal
I was the lead designer for
this virtual version of an exhibition shown in the Smithsonian Institution
Libraries' exhibition space. I designed the site architecture, created
the graphics, and did the code for the project.
The
Most of Special Collections
These are some of the earliest
examples of my digital photography. This exhibition was mounted by the
University of Virginia's Special Collections. Digital photographs include:
Early
American Fiction
I spent 14 months as one member
of this project, digitally photographing each page of some 500 volumes
of early American fiction from the collection of the University of Virginia.
Here is
one of my photographs.
The
Holsinger Collection
On this project I made digital
photographs from the glass plate negatives taken by Rufus Holsinger, a
local Charlottesville photographer in the early twentieth century.
A
Charleston Love Story: a hypertext
An effort to reintroduce a "lost"
nineteenth century African-American novel by recontextualization including
images, supporting documents, and historical essays. The novel itself can
be read, in HTML format, or searched in SGML format.
Smithsonian
Infusion
An original project for a graduate
level American Studies Colloquium. A documentary history of the birth of
the Smithsonian Institution. The entire project, inception to execution,
is my work.
Tocqueville's
America
A virtual travelogue for Alexis
DeTocqueville's and Gustave DeBeaumont's visit to America in 1831 and 1832.
Project concept, site architecture, text preparation, layout, and presentation
graphics are mine.
The
Apotheosis of Robert E. Lee
An editorial project:
I took an existing project and expanded it with complementary resources
(text and image) and redesigned organization and navigation.
The
Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative
My first academic WWW project.
The site offers a look at domestic qualities of the western frontier. Commentary
is organized for browsing through topic, author, geography, and chronology.
All design and preparation is my own.
The
Writer's Eye
Reworking of an existing site
for the Bayly Art Museum's annual Writer's Eye Competition. My work consisted
of considerable reorganization and editing.
Walton's
Mountain Museum
The original WWW promotional
site for the Schuyler, VA museum. My work included the initial design,
and digitization of the images (from slides) and the text. |
