Primary Goal: show respect and make a difference with indigenous cultures through creation of a virtual museum and store for indigenous artists

Project Needs: 

• Respectfully store digital information about artifact / artists / cultures
  • images
  • 3-D Scans?
  • Object / Artist / Cultural Information
    • Examples: NMAI , NMAI Search, European Virtual Museum
  • What Information needs stored?
    • collections
    • artists
    • materials
    • culture
    • location
    • technique
    • time period
    • provenance
    • location
    • story
    • cultural importance
    • symbolism
    • description
    • additional object specific information
• Aesthetically display curated objects
  • earthy, natural feel
  • minimal yet sophisticated
  • featured items
  • searching
  • organize by
    • collections
    • artists
    • materials
    • culture
    • location
    • technique
    • time period
• Create an e-commerce platform where indigenous artists can gain exposure and profit from their creations
• Create method for updating, adding and deleting objects
  • altering featured collections, items, artists
• Create method for updating additional information pages

Tasks To Be Completed: 

• User Login to database administration page
• Create test to ensure database functionality
• Finish dynamic page creation
• add costs to items
• add shopping cart/payment functionality

Tasks Completed: 

Create Database to Store info with a table for each of the following:

• Items and their info
• Artists and their info
• Item Artist Join Table
• Featured Items, Artists, Collections

Make Create/Read/Update/Delete Routes to access API Create Pages That Update through a call to the routes

• Add New Items / Artists
• Edit Artists / Items
• Update Item / Artists

Additional Resources: 

http://www.glocalventures.org/index.php

Wireframes: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B6RVDKG7FzkmaFowMXMxVVBXeHc?usp=sharing

The Story: 

Skills are passed on from generation to generation.  Skills that take the beauty of mother nature and transfer it into wonderful artifacts.  Skills that imbue the natural state of the earth with incredible spirituality through reconfiguration.  To take that which surrounds us and turn it into an object representative of the power and completeness of something greater than the uninterrupted world while still respecting the wholeness of this earth.  To simultaneously manipulate and respect the unchanged.

A life of spirituality, of true intraconnectedness, of understanding the power and wonder of all around us.

To convey these sentiments through a digital screen.  To convey the beauty of the natural world through one of the most highly fabricated, researched, most developed technologies in existence.  This requires expansive images, soothing sounds, natural earthy tones, as minimal attention to