diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index 833717d08..60519382a 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -19,4 +19,5 @@ The collection items in this edition of the website are from The National Palace ### Browse the Collection #### By Item Type -{% include collection_gallery.html facet_by='object_type' collection='my-collection' %} +{% include collection_gallery.html facet_by='object_type_en' +collection='my-collection' %} diff --git a/pages/about.md b/pages/about.md index 14f28b5f8..0dbcfd927 100644 --- a/pages/about.md +++ b/pages/about.md @@ -4,45 +4,14 @@ title: What are the Hindustan Jades? permalink: /about/ --- -**Wax helps you create digital exhibits.** -A digital exhibit is a collection of curated cultural artifacts—manuscripts, paintings, photographs, sculptures, etc—often accompanied by an explicit narrative or argument. Though Wax focuses on images and text, it could be used for sound or video collections with some customization. +Although jade is historically the most precious stone in Chinese culture, after the Qing empire conquered inner Asia from 1755-1759, the Qing empire gained access to new jade forms from across the Islamic world. This included Central Asia, such as Xinjiang, Ottoman Turkey and Mughal India. Our project focuses on what Qianlong uniformly praised as the “Hindustan jades,” regardless of their actual origins. He praised them in numerous poems inspired by the objects that were incised directly onto those objects in typical Qianlong emperor fashion. -**Wax is an extensible workflow based on minimal computing principles.** -Wax is hyper-aware of differences in resources, control and access around the world and close to home. As a result, it is purposefully lightweight: a few Ruby gems, some customizable UI components, good documentation and (hopefully soon!) recipes for creating, deploying, and maintaining custom digital exhibitions. +**Historical and Contemporary Significance** -**The exhibition sites created by Wax are static.** -This means they consist of flat HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files that don't need to communicate in a complex way back to a server. This makes them cheaper, safer, and generally easier to maintain. +The circulation of the jades that the Qianlong emperor possessed, and the later conceptualizations of what he believed to be the Islamic world through his poetry and collections, have significant impacts on Chinese history and geopolitical relations that remain salient in contemporary times. The __Hindustan Jades__ also portray how art actively served as a form of relations between the Qing Empire and countries such as Mughal India, despite not having formal diplomatic relationships at the time. -**The skills needed to create Wax sites are agnostic.** -This means they are largely transferable for use in other digital projects. 'Learning Wax' does not mean learning how to use a platform. It involves learning the fundamentals of web development, data management, and [plain text editing](https://zapier.com/blog/beginner-ultimate-guide-markdown/) while leveraging a few great open source libraries and frameworks along the way. -**Wax keeps the collection presentation separate from the collection data.** -The Wax workflow starts with making standardized image files and metadata records and builds around them, handling canonical information, scholarly content, and site styling differently and deliberately. This makes it easier for you or others to share, reuse and reimagine your collection data in other contexts. +**Project Principles** -## Who is Wax for? +Object-centered Digital Art History. Bilingual. Data Mapping and Visualization. Open Everything. Minimal Computing. -Wax was created for individuals and groups who either don't have or don't want to use a lot of resources to create their scholarly or cultural exhibits. It's best suited for folks who are willing to take on some technical responsibility in exchange for a lot of flexibility. - -For beginners, Wax has a relatively high, but general-purpose learning curve. To get the most out of Wax, you should have some familiarity with: - -- Using an interactive shell (e.g., Bash/Terminal) to install and interact with programs, files, and directories on your local computer. -- Using Git and GitHub to version control and collaborate on projects. -- Using Jekyll to generate static sites. -- Creating and normalizing data files (e.g., CSV, JSON, YAML) -- Using file-naming conventions and best practices. -- Editing HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript. - -**However, Wax is also great for teaching or learning the skills above!** For examples of digital pedagogy via the creation of Wax exhibitions, check out [this workshop](https://studentcouncil.college.columbia.edu/events/introduction-minimal-computing-humanities-building-exhibit-primary-sources-using-wax), [this GitHub repository](https://github.com/stylerevolution/stylerevolution.github.io), and [this custom Wax site](https://stylerevolution.github.io/). - -**Wax is also phenomenal for professionals who play a facilitating role**, such as Digital Scholarship Librarians or Coordinators. With some practice, Wax substantially reduces the time to production and post-production maintenance costs for you and your team. In the most common scenario, students, faculty, colleagues or any other collaborators just have to provide you with a properly formatted spreadsheet and the text for the exhibits. The extras are up to you. - - -## So what does the Wax workflow *look like?* - -Below is a diagram to give you a zoomed-out view. In summary, you create a file of metadata records for your collection (in CSV, YAML, or JSON format), organize your collection image files, and put both in the Jekyll site folder. After updating your configuration, you run a few command line tasks to prepare the data and metadata for use by the Jekyll site. Jekyll then uses special layouts and Wax components to build the exhibit and spits them out as static pages ready to publish. - -From there, you can run tests on your site to catch errors and decide where and how to put it online or in offline media. - - - workflow diagram for wax process - diff --git a/pages/credits.md b/pages/credits.md index 2e161fbdb..fb9e2f54e 100644 --- a/pages/credits.md +++ b/pages/credits.md @@ -4,10 +4,8 @@ title: Credits & Contact permalink: '/credits/' --- -Wax is a minimal computing ([minicomp](https://github.com/minicomp)) project led and maintained by [Marii Nyrop](https://marii.info/) and [Alex Gil](https://github.com/elotroalex). +The Qing Emperor's Hindustan Jades is led by [Dr. Kristina Kleutghen](https://kristinakleutghen.com), Director of Undergraduate Studies, Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. The project website is built by Project Coordinator and Research Assistant, Sarah Rider (WU '23), [Sarah Swanz](https://library.wustl.edu/directory/sarah-swanz/), and [Douglas Knox](https://hdw.wustl.edu/people/douglas-knox-0) using Wax - a minimal computing ([minicomp](https://github.com/minicomp)) project led and maintained by [Marii Nyrop](https://marii.info/) and [Alex Gil](https://github.com/elotroalex). -It uses open source libraries and frameworks including [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com), [IIIF](http://iiif.io), [OpenSeaDragon](https://openseadragon.github.io/), and [ElasticLunr](http://elasticlunr.com/) and builds upon work by [Peter Binkley](https://github.com/pbinkley), [David Newbury](https://github.com/workergnome), and others. +Wax uses open source libraries and frameworks including [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com), [IIIF](http://iiif.io), [OpenSeaDragon](https://openseadragon.github.io/), and [ElasticLunr](http://elasticlunr.com/) and builds upon work by [Peter Binkley](https://github.com/pbinkley), [David Newbury](https://github.com/workergnome), and others. -We welcome and encourage contributibutions. Please get in touch, or [fork the project on GitHub](https://github.com/minicomp/wax). If you encounter any issue with the software, please [create an issue](https://github.com/minicomp/wax/issues) or find us in the **#minicomp-wax** channel within the [Code4Lib Slack](https://code4lib.slack.com). (Request an invite [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeD77mBp0Y13mFePF8UmDwFrlbxNx3VttEjz_3dgglJeK-Zbg/viewform?c=0&w=1)!) - -For more on working with Wax, visit our [documentation wiki](https://minicomp.github.io/wiki/wax/). +For more on working with Wax in your own project, visit the Wax [documentation wiki](https://minicomp.github.io/wiki/wax/).