Program

Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Period of Performance

11/1/2017 - 5/31/2019

Funding Totals

$73,500.00 (approved)
$73,500.00 (awarded)


Diviner, A Digital Platform

FAIN: HAA-255937-17

St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY 13617-1423)
Ellen J. Rocco (Project Director: January 2017 to May 2022)

The development of a digital platform to assist small historical societies and other local humanities institutions, including public media organizations, in curating their federated collections on the web.

North Country Public Radio is developing Diviner, an innovative digital platform for organizing and sharing humanities materials with the public, and encouraging exploration and personal interaction with that content. Our proposal is to package Diviner, the digital platform, and make it available to other humanities and public media organizations. During the grant period we will evaluate our current platform, develop new elements, and finally package all elements of the platform into free WordPress elements to be shared publicly in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. During the grant period we will develop Diviner into a configurable platform useful for other organizations, through staff development meetings, meetings with our advisory board on how best to package the platform for public use, meetings with our humanities collaborators to design new features, and periods of testing and quality assurance for all aspects of the platform.





Associated Products

DIVINER (Computer Program)
Title: DIVINER
Author: Amy Feiereisel
Author: Graeme Hoffman
Author: Dale Hobson
Author: Bill Haenel
Author: Ellen Rocco
Abstract: DIVINER (1.0) is a digital platform built for archiving, organizing, and presenting large amounts of digital media (photographs, audio, video, and documents - or all four!). Its main selling point is an audience-friendly public interface that encourages personal interaction and engagement, and a customizable meta-data system attached to all archive items. DIVINER is ideal for collections of humanities materials that an institution wishes to share with the public. Examples include a collection of 3,000 photographs of a large farm in the early 1900s, or thousands of audio clips and interviews related to immigration in Wisconsin).
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://ncpr.github.io/diviner-wp-archive-theme/
Primary URL Description: Digital platform for humanities and public media organizations available as a WordPress Theme
Secondary URL: wordpress.org/plugins/diviner-archive/
Secondary URL Description: Digital platform for humanities and public media organizations available as a WordPress-compatible Theme and Plug-in
Access Model: Open-source, open-access, free, available for download in WordPress Director
Programming Language/Platform: WordPress
Source Available?: Yes