A Requiem on Stone and Board
A Digital Collection of Kentucky Vernacular Architecture
Contents: About the Collection | About the Technical Standards | About the People | About the Platform | Tech
About the Collection
This site presents a collection which contains digitized photographs and documents from the papers of folklorist Warren E. Roberts (1924-1999)at the Indiana University Archives. The items collected here consist of a selection of documented vernacular architecture buidlings throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The intention of gathering this specific set of objects is to provide an enjoyable and educational collection which exhibits a taste of the history of these kinds of traditional, humble buildings throughout Kentucky. Not all such items from within the collection have been included, for the sake of creating a managable collection. The backs of the photographs within the collection have also been included when they offer contextual information about what is depicated in the photograph.
The finding aid for the collection can be found here: Indiana University Archive
About the Technical Standards
The work in this site followed a variety of technical standards. For the representation of dates and geographic coordinates, ISO standard formatting was used. All materials were scanned on an archival quality flatbed Epson Scanner. The metadata fields used to described the materials are pulled from the required CollectionBuilder fields, Dublin Core standards, and customized fields in order to appropriately describe the materials and to provide the appropriate archival citation. The metadata was largely pulled directly from the archival descriptions and the contextual information within the materials themselves. The primary exception is the architectural terms, which I used standardized terms from the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus.
This work was determined, through consultation with the archivists at Indiana University Archives, to fall within fair use copyright usage.
About the People
This site is created by Alex Caba. As of creating this site, I am at Indiana University getting her Masters in Library Science, with a concentration in Rare Books and Manuscripts. I have lived in many places in my lifetime but I consider Kentucky to be my home. This collection is in part an homage to time spent wandering kentucky farms and forests, finding old structures and imagining what they once were. This collection was created as part of the course Z652 Digital Libraries, taught by John Walsh with Assistant Instructor Alex Wingate.
The creation of this site would also not have been possible without the assistance of Indiana University Archives, in particuarly Katherine Morrison.
About the Platform
This site is generated using CollectionBuilder-GH, a project to create a free and simple digital collection using GitHub Pages from:
- a CSV of collection metadata
- a folder of JPG images or PDF documents
For full details of creating your own collection site, visit CollectionBuilder Documentation!
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
The site started from the CollectionBuilder-GH template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.