Final: Digital Humanities Project

    In 1969 over 400,000 people gathered for a three day music festival located at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Woodstock, New York. The festival was intended to be a three day event with 50,000 people from August 15th to August 17th, but turned into a four day event with 400,000. Thousands of photos, videos were taken at The Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Countless perspectives, experiences, and moments were captured by the concert goers. Woodstock was an important moment in music history and part of the counterculture of the 1960s.

                                                      
     For my Digital Humanities project I would like to design website that provides an interactive tour of The Woodstock Music & Arts Fair. The tour would include photography, music, videos, documents, and personal accounts of the event. The project will also highlight different musicians that performed and their set lists. I would like to incorporate an interactive map that shows the layout of Yasgur's farm, stages, vendors, artists, campgrounds, and gatherings.
     The first step of this process would be to compile the websites content. Photography, video, documents, and personal accounts would need to be located and rights or permission to use the articles would need to be purchased or granted. A good place to start to gather photographs, videos, documents, and personal accounts is www.woodstockpreservation.org, a archive website dedicated to the preservation of Woodstock. Besides essays and external links on the site (permission from their respective owner would be needed), much of the website's content is under fair use. Another open source that would provide different types of archive photos,videos, music, documents, books, personal accounts, and internal and external links to additional Woodstock content is library.rockhall.com. This website is dedicated to archiving documents from important festivals in music history, it is also linked with worldcat.org a search engine that locates items in libraries near you.
     In order to accomplish this project a website would need to be designed to navigate through the different Woodstock experiences. Wix.com is a website building site that is free of charge for non-premium members. The site gives you access to an simple to use drag and drop editor, 500 MB of storage and customizable templates. It also breaks down the building process into a step by step guide.  
     Next, an interactive map needs to be designed for the website. Arcgis.com provides you with ready to use maps and templates and can be embedded into websites. Photos of the event would be added to the map and placed on the map in the location of where the photograph was taken. For example, any photos of the crowd would be placed in the field in front of the stage and photos of the musicians would be placed on the stage. I would also add additional maps that provide a visual of how massive the festival was. One that displays what the property looked like covered with the 50,000 people that the permit granted for the event versus the 400,000 people that attended the event.
     Finally, I would like this project to be left open for others to add and collaborate within the guidelines of this project.