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.
Our goal for our project in DIGH 402 was to design and prototype a static website out of GitHub pages to host our podcast, Plain.txt. The episodic nature of the podcast lends itself well to the use of a static HTML generator along the lines of Nieky's lecture on 02/30/18, because while the content will change episode to episode we envision the episode pages to be technically identical. It will be ideal to come up with a system of updating the podcast website with a new episode and its content without having to hand-code the HTML/CSS/JavaScript every time. In addition to the convenience a static website would bring, we want to be sure we are conforming to level Double-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. We feel that if we spend enough time developing a static website using the principals of universal design and adhering to the WCAG AA standards, it will help ensure consistency in the podcast's accessibility.
In addition to this primary focus on creating an accessible, static website, we have started discussing other ways we can incorporate programming into the regular functions of the podcast. An aspect of the podcast we are both interested in harnessing to its fullest potential will be its social media promotion and engagement. In this regard, we are interested in mining Digital Humanities and Computer Science tweets for themes/topics that can be incorporated into the podcast's episodes. In addition to scraping other people's tweets/conversations, we are interested in the idea of creating a Twitter Bot on behalf of the podcast that helps generate conversations that simultaneously engage the larger Twitter universe with the podcast's production and provides the DH cohort with relative, themed material to respond to in the podcast episodes.
Project Tech:
To wireframe the website we are using Just In Mind.
The team will be using a combination of R and Python to scrape social media sites (primarily Twitter) to generate conversation starters and talking points for the podcast.
We are still investigating the technologies required to create a Twitter bot which will spark interactions with the Plain.txt podcast community on social media.
Requirements for the Project:
Link to GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/RJP43/PlainTextPodcast
Project Description:
Adapted from our original elevator pitch.
Our goal for our project in DIGH 402 was to design and prototype a static website out of GitHub pages to host our podcast, Plain.txt. The episodic nature of the podcast lends itself well to the use of a static HTML generator along the lines of Nieky's lecture on 02/30/18, because while the content will change episode to episode we envision the episode pages to be technically identical. It will be ideal to come up with a system of updating the podcast website with a new episode and its content without having to hand-code the HTML/CSS/JavaScript every time. In addition to the convenience a static website would bring, we want to be sure we are conforming to level Double-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. We feel that if we spend enough time developing a static website using the principals of universal design and adhering to the WCAG AA standards, it will help ensure consistency in the podcast's accessibility.
In addition to this primary focus on creating an accessible, static website, we have started discussing other ways we can incorporate programming into the regular functions of the podcast. An aspect of the podcast we are both interested in harnessing to its fullest potential will be its social media promotion and engagement. In this regard, we are interested in mining Digital Humanities and Computer Science tweets for themes/topics that can be incorporated into the podcast's episodes. In addition to scraping other people's tweets/conversations, we are interested in the idea of creating a Twitter Bot on behalf of the podcast that helps generate conversations that simultaneously engage the larger Twitter universe with the podcast's production and provides the DH cohort with relative, themed material to respond to in the podcast episodes.
Project Tech:
To wireframe the website we are using Just In Mind.
Web development and hosting will be through GitHub and GitHub Pages using a Jekyll framework.
The team will be using a combination of R and Python to scrape social media sites (primarily Twitter) to generate conversation starters and talking points for the podcast.
We are still investigating the technologies required to create a Twitter bot which will spark interactions with the Plain.txt podcast community on social media.