Mappalachia

What is it?

After World War II, Berea College created a general studies course called "Man and the Humanities," in which students studied literature, music, and art. One of the first assignments asked students to draw their home community. Over the four-decade life of this course, some 7,000 drawings were saved. Since many of these students came from the Appalachian region, their drawings depict glimpses of life in the region. In an effort to make these drawings available to alumni, scholars and the public. The originial Mappalachia website can be found at http://mappalachia.org/. However, during the fall of 2019, Dr. Jan Pearce and Dr. Chad Berry along with students May Jue and Emely Alfaro worked on another version of the Mappalacha website in order to present the data differently. This is still a work in progress.

For the Code files
So far, our code is not yet in production, we are still writing the code and tesing the code though our server.

To run the code:

• first install the files in MobaXterm in the var/www/html
• modify the init file to your local server with your username and password
• make sure the etc/apacha2/site-enable has the omeka.conf file, if you don't have this file then you can create the file with the path to the omeka folder

Pointers:

• Make sure to install the plugins once using the omeka page
• Make sure imagemagick is installed and the correct path is added to the setting
• Check if HTML filter is turned off in setting --> secrity

Future Page Modifications:

the plugin 'Simple page' can be use to create more pages and these pages could be modify using HTML. CSS can be added using the <style tag>

other pages must be modify using the files provided