## Projects … Tools *Itinerary: a work in progress* - Roots of digital projects (are narrow and deep) - Iterations (discovering features) - Directions (How do projects become tools?)

## Roots of a digital project *Are Narrow and Deep* - Example: ["A Frightful Number"](http://hofstra.github.io/itinerary/plague-year/) - Simple tech, scholarly elbow grease required - Parish boundaries linked to death records (sequenced waypoints)

## Iterations *Steps toward, or around a tool* - [Melville in London](http://hofstra.github.io/itinerary/melville-in-london/) - Replaced CSVs with MEL Catalog (a web UI, and a relational database) - Introduced the idea of routes (both lines, and groupings of waypoints)

## Directions *Both Divergent and Convergent* - Several scholars interested in a common spatial and temporal frame of reference - They bring different metadata columns, focal themes - [Melville in Manhattan](http://hofstra.github.io/itinerary/melville-in-manhattan/) - [C19 Latino NYC](http://hofstra.github.io/itinerary/c19-latino-nyc/) - [Early New York](http://hofstra.github.io/itinerary/early-new-york/) - What new features emerge? Layers are an obvious one.