Check In

• Name and Institution
• Favorite civil war, lost cause, reckoning book or article?
  • Jody Allen - Smithsonian article “The Costs of the Confederacy” (Dec 2018)
  • Dan Fountain - Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed
  • Woody Register - Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive (2020)
  • Nashieli Marcano - Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
  • Phillip Stone- Traci Thompson’s The New Mind of the South
  • Sarah Thomas - Catherine Bishir’s Southern Built: American Architecture, Regional Practice
• How is your semester going?
• Questions to add to the agenda

Main Agenda

• January Item review
  • Detailed list of item changes can be found here.
  • Frequently Made Mistakes
    • Templates. Please only use the memorial and the people template. Events do not go under the event template (choose memorial and then choose commemorative event as memorial type). The place template should only be used for places that are significant but aren’t memorials
    • Dublin core class. Only use this for people (agent). Do not use this on the memorial template.
    • Titles. Please refer to the data dictionary and memorial templates on how to properly format titles for different item types
    • Images. Please add images and make sure to put them in media (not just thumbnail)
    • Historical Periods. Please add historical periods for date installed and date modified for memorials and only significant periods for people (such as when they worked for your university or was active in their work)
    • Sites. Please add all your items to your individual spoke site and to the legacy hub dev site
      • make sure to show how to batch this.
  • Data Dictionary
    • Most of the FMM are outlined in the data dictionary so please start referring to it while creating items in the database. If anything is unclear in the data dictionary, please feel free to email me and I can answer the questions you have.
• Recommendations for the database?
  • Should we add an altered— modified type of tag?
    • for monuments that have contextualization plaques added to them
  • How to handle renamed memorials
  • Do we need to add a historical period before 1820?
  • Multiple edits to organization items
• Atlanta Conference in April
  • What should this event accomplish? To show why this database is important within institutions and the impact across institutions.
    • Thematic topics for panels
      • Nashieli- collaborating with instructors and lesson planning with the database
        • Getting students invested
        • interdepartmental involvement (not just useful in history classrooms)
      • Nashieli- student process and ways of organizing
    • opportunities for student participation
  • The best way to talk about the project and recruit new participants
  • Attendance form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBZmQk4rcF_Sj6pS3fRgyJzMKNvBBW69rXbskLczJJxjEhhw/viewform
• Blog posts for launch