It’s so hard to believe that we only have a couple of weeks left. It’s been an immense joy working with and learning from my team as we built the Corona Chronicles project. Group projects can sometimes be challenging, but we fell into a great rhythm. The insight I’ve gathered from everyone will be helpful as I continue my DH studies. I’m already overwhelmed by all the thoughts I have to sort through as I start to write my final paper.

Over the past week, we’re focusing on any final tweaks we can still easily make to the prototype at this point. We know that we’re happy with what we’ve built and are prioritizing publishing any late breaking submissions we continue to receive. In addition, we’ve been working on the revised slides for our presentation. During our group meeting on Sunday, we spent dedicated time talking through exactly what our narrative arc should be. We answered: What is the mission of our project? What is our goal? And how do we succinctly explain this over the 5 minutes that we have? This exercise proved to be very helpful for everyone, and we had fun brainstorming and exploring all of the facets.

At this point as we’re starting to wrap up, we want to think about documentation and how to hand over processes and things for the project’s next phase. We’ve come back around to the paperwork side of things which isn’t very exciting, but it’s so important to capture. Not only for our own self-reflection but also for the longer term success of the project.

Looking forward to seeing all of the great work this class has done during Thursday’s dress rehearsals!