{"id":3461,"date":"2019-03-18T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2019-03-18T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:01:22","slug":"final-project-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/2019\/03\/18\/final-project-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Project Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have always had a fascination with family history, I am lucky enough to have a well documented timeline of my family on my mothers side.\u00a0 <\/span>In World War II my great grandfather Sydney Williams joined the 10th Mountain Division.\u00a0 <\/span>In 1939-40 was the first discussion of creating a military division meant for fighting in the mountains.\u00a0 <\/span>After training in the Colorado mountains in preparation they fought their way through the Italian alps during the war.\u00a0 <\/span>While Sydney was at war he sent letters home to his wife, his children later created a book with all of these letters put together.\u00a0 <\/span>What I would like to do is create an interactive map that shows the route that he took through the alps during the war, while also digitalizing the letters.\u00a0 <\/span>With dates on all the letters, I would be able to show where the letters were written (generally) along the route. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because this is my family history, I find great interest in this.\u00a0 <\/span>I believe that it may be interesting to others as it would give an insight into a division in the war that is not well known for. This project could take different paths from here as well.\u00a0 <\/span>It could be more general and show all the different paths of the 10th mountain division, along with battle locations, critical events, and general information.\u00a0 <\/span>However, this would take a considerably longer time in research. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the technical side I would need to plot the routes on the map and create an interactive interface for the user to navigate.\u00a0 <\/span>To digitize any text from the book containing my great grandfathers letters, I found apps such as Finescanner that allow you to take photos of text and convert that into a document.\u00a0 <\/span>I believe the hardest part would be the programming to make the interface.\u00a0 <\/span>I will need to collect a copy of the book contains these letters from my grandfather, along with the maps he has (will just ask for photos of the maps). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The technical support I will need is troubleshooting any problems and brainstorming ideas for the programming side of the project.\u00a0 <\/span>In addition, I would need to use a map API and utilize satellite as it shows a cool graphic of the alps and their vastness.<\/p>\n

This project would create a tool that members of my family could use to interact with what my great grandfather experienced during WWII.\u00a0 <\/span>With only a finite number of copies of \u201cDear Mary: Letters Home from the 10th Mountain Division (1944\u20131945)\u201d it would be an interesting digitalization of his experience that would allow easy access to his story.\u00a0 <\/span>That being said, this idea only just came to me and I would be happy to develop this idea into taking a different approach by digitalizing military routes of different divisions, or battalions, for a more general use by the public.\u00a0 <\/span>It could start off by following just one company through the war and portraying where they went and what they did through an interactive map.\u00a0 <\/span>Again, this might take more hands to complete as the research would have to be more extensive. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have always had a fascination with family history, I am lucky enough to have a well documented timeline of my family on my mothers side.\u00a0 In World War II my great grandfather Sydney Williams joined the 10th Mountain Division.\u00a0 In 1939-40 was the first discussion of creating a military division meant for fighting in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[402586],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}