http://hvwc.cdh.ucla.edu/eternal-city-virtual-guide
As the final product of a Digital Humanities 199/299 Capstone Seminar at UCLA in Spring 2016, I worked with a group of 5 undergraduates and 2 other graduate students to produce a virtual guided tour of the city of Rome as described by 24 books from UCLA Special Collections as well as of the Special Collections materials themselves. This tour allows users to see how these fragile books must be handled, while also giving a sense of what medieval figures viewed as important about Rome and the misunderstandings they had about the ancient city.
In contrast to the other portions of RomeLab that I have worked on, I played a less technological role in this project. My role was to digitize pages of the Special Collections texts relevant to the tour and to translate them into English so their contents could be integrated into the tour. My language background made me the best suited member of the project to work with the Medieval Latin, French, Italian and Spanish within these books. I also worked to ensure that the textual descriptions that made up the tour were accurate and precise.
Skills: Digitizing Books, Providing Data for Digital Humanities projects