{"id":541,"date":"2016-10-03T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=541"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:13:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:13:18","slug":"dh101-photogrammer-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/03\/dh101-photogrammer-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"DH101 Photogrammer Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Photogrammer project<\/a> is an online visual and organizational site used to view 170,000 photographs from the 1935-1946 U.S. period.\u00a0 <\/span>These photographs were taken across the nation, documenting American life during the later Great Depression and through World War II.\u00a0 <\/span>Developed by the U.S. federal government\u2019s Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information, this photography project was designed to increase domestic support of government relief programs.\u00a0 <\/span>Photogrammer includes an interactive map and archive, both of which utilize classifications tags that allow the viewer to search for specific photos within the expansive collection. <\/span><\/p>\n

The primary source of data for the digital Photogrammer project is the FSA-OWI Collection.\u00a0 <\/span>However, it also includes a number of\u00a0 <\/span>photographs from the Domestic Operations Branch, Overseas Operations Branch, Office of Emergency Management- Office of War Information Collection, American at War Collection, and the Portrait of America Collection.\u00a0 <\/span>On the \u201cAbout<\/a>\u201d page, the Library of Congress is also thanked as a source for \u201cmaintaining and cataloging the collection\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

After finding sources for the photographs, the Photogrammer team had to process the data.\u00a0 <\/span>One major organization process had already been completed by Paul Vanderbilt who developed the \u201cLot Number system and Classification Tags system\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>This three-tier classification system categorizes photographs by subject (ex: \u201cwork\u201d) , activity (ex: \u201csocial and personal activity\u201d), area (ex: \u201cThe Land\u201d), and more.\u00a0 <\/span>More ways of categorization were added for this project, including date, specific location, and photographer.\u00a0 <\/span>Besides this, the photographs had to be scanned in order to be viewed digitally.\u00a0 <\/span>Also, detailed data on each photograph\u2019s geographical location had to be computed to create the site\u2019s interactive map. <\/span><\/p>\n

Lastly, Photogrammer is mapped w\/ Leaflet and CartoDB attribution.\u00a0 <\/span>This interactive map plots geographical information of the photos.\u00a0 <\/span>Users can customize their search by selecting a specific photographer, time period, and\/or place.\u00a0 <\/span>The points on the map can be viewed by county, which is the default, or by dots, which is specific to each artist and their location.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The county view<\/a> gives a more holistic, overarching glimpse of number of photographs per location because the counties depict a larger area and specific artists are not taken into account.\u00a0 <\/span>Meanwhile, the dots view<\/a> is much more precise because each dot pinpoints the location of where each particular photographer captured their photographs.\u00a0 <\/span>The lab visualizations include Treemap, Metadata Dashboard, and ColorSpace (which is coming soon).\u00a0 <\/span>Treemap is an interactive depiction of Paul Vanderbilt\u2019s 1942 tiered classification system.\u00a0 <\/span>As the user clicks on each square, the photo search classifications become more and more specific.\u00a0 <\/span>The interactive Metadata Dashboard of California uses a 1935-1946 timeline presentation, subject classification bar graph, photographer pie chart, and map of California as another means to search for and see connections between photographs.\u00a0 <\/span>Finally, the Photogrammer blog, which gives extra insight into the process and thought behind the project, is powered by WordPress.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Photogrammer project is an online visual and organizational site used to view 170,000 photographs from the 1935-1946 U.S. period.\u00a0 These photographs were taken across the nation, documenting American life … Continue reading “DH101 Photogrammer Blog”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}