About Us It's Nice to Meet You!
Our team ended up a bit larger than most. In preparation to pass the project off to the Center for Digital Humanities, we have incorporated Clay Norris into our team. We also gained a new member this semester, Jackson Arnold.
Our Team
Jason Drain Project Lead
Jason brought the idea of rewriting the Dirty History Crawler project for capstone from Dr. Colin Wilder, in the Center for Digital Humanities. He also played a major role in dockerizing our app and building our data aggregation tools.
Jackson Arnold Back-End Dev.
Jackson is the newest member of our team. He worked on the backend of our web app developing the search functionality as well as the CSV export endpoint.
Kyler Cain Back-End Dev.
Kyler worked mostly on the Library of Congress aggregator and built a tool for processing XML in the MARC21 format.
Tori McQuinn Front-End Dev.
Tori is our main front-end developer. She and Molly worked together to develop our front end with Polymer and Express.
Molly Carlson Front-End Dev.
Molly helped Tori develop our front end, and also worked on our Library of Congress import job and our MARC21 parsers.
The Extended Family
Our team members from the Center for Digital Humanities
Dr. Colin Wilder Project Owner
Dr. Wilder wrote the first version of this project, leveraging Python and the OCLC World Cat Search API. This tool is intended to help him in is bibliographic data based research.
Clay Norris Full-Stack Dev.
Clay worked on a little bit of everything and has started to address security concerns with the application. He will be taking over the project at the end of the semester when it is passed to the Center for Digital Humanities.