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THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY GENOCIDE MEMORIALS IN RWANDA 1994—PRESENT Giovanni Zambotti gzambotti@cga.harvard.edu ( http://www.genocidememorials.cga.harvard.edu/ ). About the project.
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THROUGH A GLASS DARKLYGENOCIDE MEMORIALS IN RWANDA 1994—PRESENTGiovanni Zambottigzambotti@cga.harvard.edu(http://www.genocidememorials.cga.harvard.edu/)
About the project • It was committed by Professor Jens Meierhenrich from the Harvard’s Department of Government. It started around June 2009 and completed a year later. • It is an interactive website in support of a multi-year project on genocide memorials in Rwanda. It was meant to showcasing original geographic, ideographic, and photographic data collected in the field.
Rwanda’s genocide and memorials • In 100 days at least 800,000 people were killed (20% of the country's total population). • Hutu extremists killed mostly Tusti. • Officially there are few memorials all over Rwanda, unofficially there are hundreds of them.
Project main challenging: • Choosing the right graphics to visualize such painful dataset. • Coordinate CGA prospective and Professor’s expectation. • Since CGA did not have any real expert in web developing, the project turned out to be a demanding web project, even if the final product ended up to be a static website that use html code and basic javascript.
Technology used: • Jquery (home page / images carousel) • http://buildinternet.com/2009/03/sliding-boxes-and-captions-with-jquery/ • http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/ • http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/ • Flash (intro) • Flex(map): • http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-samples-flash/source/browse/trunk/demos/?r=18#demos%2FAFCPicasaMapFlip • Google Earth (map) • Yahoo YUI 2 (html, css): • http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/2/
Conclusion: • Excellent application to integrate text and images into a neat website. • Probably not the right technical implementation. HTML is not flexible enough, the site is easly adaptable to other project. • With more knowledge and better planning, we could used technology like xml-xslt or database like mysql.