New Digital Map Expands Access to East End Cemetery

Years in the making, a searchable map of East End Cemetery is now accessible online. The map, which features drone-captured imagery, is the first digital initiative of the East End Cemetery Collaboratory, a learning community comprising faculty and staff from the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University and members of the Friends of East End.  When cemetery reclamation began in summer 2013, nearly all …

Notes on building this website

This post originally appeared on my personal website, at https://jolenesmith.net/post/eecwp/. I wrote it from my perspective working with Brian and Erin to build this site, to share reflections on the design process and to document how things work. I’ve reproduced it here in its entirety. ~ Jolene Smith I’ve been working on something for about the past year. It’s live …