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Concerned with accessibility & engagement, from design to development, the #PlainTxtPodcast fosters a multimodal experience. By pairing transparent documentation w/ attributable collaboration, plain.txt delivers a digital humanitarian approach to podcasting.
http://plaintxtpodcast.com/
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Platform Assessment #16

Closed RJP43 closed 5 years ago

RJP43 commented 5 years ago

DIGH 501 Assignment

If you are working with an existing platform, tool, or content management system (CMS) such as Omeka, Scalar, Drupal, WordPress, Joomla!, Mukurtu, Jekyll, or Django, you’ll need to think about its affordances and possible limitations. A CMS is a system that allows an author publish content to the web via tools like a backend, with buttons and text editors. The “content” — the text, images, and other media you upload — is stored in a database, separate from instructions for styling and displaying the site.

Consider the following questions in your analysis:

  1. How does this platform distinguish itself from others?
  2. Who built (builds) the platform?
  3. For whom is the platform intended?
  4. What language(s) is (are) it written in?
  5. What kinds of sites or projects currently use this platform?
  6. What possibilities does it offer for display? For example, how easy is it to reconfigure the form of a project? How many options are configurable?
  7. Does the platform seem to assume that you want to display content in a certain configuration? If so, what is it?
  8. How easy is it for a layperson to install this platform? To use it?
  9. Who can modify the platform’s source code?
  10. What kind of database does the CMS use? Can you tell anything about the format of data contained in the database?
  11. Can you attach metadata to the content you enter? If so, what kind?

Once you’ve answered these questions, let’s think about some ethical and intellectual implications for doing scholarly work within your platform. A framing question might be, “If we chose this platform for our project, what would our implicit message be?” You might consider:

RJP43 commented 5 years ago

SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/publishing-bitbytebit
As the streaming service the plain.txt podcast will be using and embedding on our GitHub pages website here are some resources regarding the accessibility of that platform particularly when embedding a soundcloud media player.

RJP43 commented 5 years ago

GitHub Pages with a custom Jekyll theme

https://pages.github.com/ https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-pages-and-jekyll https://help.github.com/en/articles/customizing-css-and-html-in-your-jekyll-theme

Platform assessments by a trusted project implementing GitHub Pages: @taylorcate's NuttingVariorum Digital Edition

RJP43 commented 5 years ago

GitHub Repository

https://styleguide.github.com/primer/principles/accessibility/

https://datree.io/blog/top-10-github-best-practices/