Meet the Team
Felipe Bassi
Team LeaderI am a Penn State Behrend junior majoring in Digital Media, Arts and Technology. I am also minoring in Data Visualization and MIS.
Tonya Velcko
Team MemberI am a 5th semester student pursuing a major in DIGIT and a minor in Game Development.
Egan Peck
Team Member4th year student at Behrend and this is my first semester as a DIGIT major.
Stephen Catledge
Team Member2nd year student at Penn State Behrend pursuing a DIGIT major and Game Development minor.
Behind the Curtains
For those who might want to take a deeper look at our work or a deeper look into our code and scripts, it is all public and can be found on our GitHub here: Letters from Europe!
About
Mary Behrend’s travel letters from Europe are a collection of mostly typewritten letters documenting her travels across Europe with friends and family in 1955. The collection of letters are contained within 2 binders, complete with pictures. We decided to focus on a single section for the project so we chose the section documenting their travels in Norway. The section includes 5 typewritten letter across 14 pages, the rest being pictures taken by Mary. To begin the project, we took pictures of the pages we wanted to use and then transcribed the letters into digital texts. We then took the texts and turned them into marked up XML documents. While applying markup to the documents we wanted to point out general important information such as time and dates. The typewritten documents included various errors such as misspellings and missing text. Using XML markup we pointed out these errors and made the corrections. This is reflected in our display on the website with the errors being highlighted and hovering over them reveals the correction. After that we used XSLT, with the help of Dr. Bondar, to display our XML documents on our website. We displayed the letters in their original formatting with the errors visible and highlighted in different colors.