Various tasks and records regarding the Making and Knowing Project's fieldnotes produced as part of Project courses and activities of hands-on skillbuilding and historical reconstructions.
Works in tandem with https://github.com/cu-mkp/fieldnotes-content where html content pages for M&K fieldnotes are housed
The Project strives to create an openly-accessible and long-term sustainable online versions of these fieldnotes at http://fieldnotes.makingandknowing.org/.
NOTE: the current landing page is an incomplete index.
From 2014-2017, the Making and Knowing Project recorded fieldnotes using a Columbia University wikispace. As of Fall 2018, this service was no longer supported and all data was exported into a s3 bucket in order to preserve all notes. However, this did not preserve the navigation of the wikispace (as these were simply 'pages' and not actually structured in any sort of hierarchy).
From Fall 2018 onwards, fieldnotes were kept as googledocs (and suite) within the Project Google Drive.
For fieldnotes originally from the wiki:
Within the wiki, the pages were organized as follows:
This hierarchy was not preserved but is the desired one in order to organize and understand all the pages archived in the original export to s3.
organize_field_notes.py
represents an attempt to recreate the original structure
Another source of complication is the encoding of various special characters, e.g. accented vowels
é
are used.Remaining hurdles include: