We have at least two photo essays that collect Tweets focused on a specific theme (College Students and Internet) and one that highlights data visualizations focused on specific survey questions (Awareness of Energy Assistance Programs). There are a total of four photo essays, two were students projects and two were experiments. I’m not convinced that photo essays are the best mechanism for curating our work.
No, only the about page. But we have tried to make it user friendly: About the Energy Rights Project.
I’m going to assume this should be “fieldsite” and not fieldnotes. I’m not really sure. We only have one “fieldsite” listed in the platform and that’s Philadelphia. I’m not sure how to make this feature useful, especially since (1) our project is placed-based (Philadelphia), and (2) most of our data has already been entered into the platform.
We talked about using memos for meeting notes, fieldnotes, and reflections, and in the past I have used them for student assignments. But in the end, why not just use a text artifact, which turns the writing/text into data more easily?
Image, PDF, text, audio, website.
We are in the last, I would say 9-12 months of this project. I don’t really anticipate spending too much time building/creating the archive a year out, unless I get additional funding, which I am not planning on applying for. I think in terms of functionality, we’d love if some of the current limitations are addressed – not being able to have multiple contributors on a timeline essay; having a more stable editor dashboard in the PECE essays; capacity to change the layout of the home page. There are a few other things, like having a search preserved in “discover” after hitting the back button. None of this is major and so I don’t think it really makes a difference.
Most of what I’m wanting from PECE is long-term stability of the platform/software so that the archive can be preserved for a few decades; or a way to easily move the data to another system.
***This is something that I would need more time to think about; go back to the design logics and reflect on the work we have done/are doing***
No. I'm still not sure I understand this function/design feature.
I think at this stage, our research events/activities are mostly finished. I could imagine the archive connecting to energy transition events and practices happening in Philadelphia, as well as PECE community events. But I'm not sure how much energy (and funding) we have for much beyond that.
The archive is hosted by Digital Ocean and Revax runs the show.