The Walltown Neighborhood History Project was led by ISIS Affiliate Trudi Abel with the help of DukeEngage student Casey Dunn. ISIS Program Director Victoria Szabo provided behind the scenes support on mapping techniques to develop a summer camp for seventh and eighth graders at the Carter Elementary School in Summer 2010. Students at the camp worked with copies of original archival documents from the 1930 census in order to annotate an historical map overlay with information about the residents of their community in the 1930s.
This local history/mapping project will continue on with a website and a community mapping party in Fall 2010. Abel and Dunn will present a talk on their work at ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesday in October 2010.
In Spring 2011 Abel will teach a course, ISIS 156S: Digital Durham, that will build up on our experience with the Walltown project in order to enrich the existing Digital Durham website with rich media maps derived from the Sanborne fire insurance maps, historical archival materials, and other primary source materials. The goal of this course will be to see how rich media mapping can bring alive the history of a region.
This class will partner with ISIS students and affiliates interested in augemented reality mapping in order to produce Durham community historical tours. We anticipate this project developing in parallel with the Duke Tour project efforts, and for the technical knowledge and infrastructure developed for each to overlap.
Interested in participating? Contact ISIS Program Director Victoria Szabo.
