Library Catalogue Processing
Work is aimed at making the catalogues of the Halifax Mechanics' Library digitally available on this website. Work includes catalogue transcription and image processing, and the resolution and analysis of catalogue references. Protocols for revision and error control will also need to be developed. This project focussed on image processing.
- Keisha Sellar
The early street directories of Halifax are a rich resource of information. We have been using these directories to build a base platform for connecting other genealogical information in the Old North End. This project involved the transcription of some 4500 household records, a project which has now been successfully completed.
- Grace Armstrong
There are a lot of moving parts with the geo-genealogy project with separate initiatives related to each of data development, mapping and addressing, and programming and applications. As a result, we had a student team work on software assessment and formulation of a management plan, resolving some of the initial conceptual problems.
- Claire Dionne
- Andrew Moore
- Elsie Chen
The core programming work was done by the "Slippery Otter Squad". The project focussed on developing a dynamic database from a weakly ordered data upload. The base work was done with a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database and a Python/Django backend. Work was not done done on the mapping interface.
- Alex Nunes
- Keerthana Kumar
- Alex Gordon
- Michael MacGean
- Brad Covey
Building on the core programming work already done, the advanced programming work of the "Spooky Octopi Team" was aimed at filling in additional features and developing the mapping interface. After a comparative analysis of software options, a decision was made to use Leaflet for the mapping interface in order to reduce the programming overheads required.
- Duncan Pulsifer
- Wenjing Zhu
- Connor Foran
- Matt Whynacht
- Ryan Gosse
Building on the core and advanced programming work already done, the intention of this third project was to develop data navigation and optimize the programming to reduce server overheads. Difficulties with the existing python/django backend, though, led to a significant effort at rebuilding the programming with a javascript backend. Some work was still able to be done on a frontend interface.
- Sara Young
- Colton Campbell
- Dean Jackson
- A.J. Mantolino
- Grant Warr
- Linhui Zhao
- Roc Wang
- Aisha Abawajy
- Bray Schurman
- Emad Bamatraf
- Faye Teeuwen
- Matt Egener
We welcome inquiries from persons interested in becoming involved in one of our projects.
Anna Leonowens is known in Nova Scotia as one of the organizers of the Victoria School of Art (now NSCAD University) in 1887. She subsequently became involved in organizing the Women's Suffrage Association, where she became the first President. Although Anna was not to live to see it, the political coalition behind women's suffrage was eventually successful with the passing of the Nova Scotia Franchise Act of 26 April, 1918.
