2 10 25 https://www.ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/70b5a96a156fbf84cd624ebae4c2b3bc.pdf f53e92341f3cab851937992fa724c629 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Barrington Middle School Description What is it all about? Classroom teachers, Diana Ouellette and Traci Taglione, asked sixth-grade Lime Cluster students at Barrington Middle School in Barrington to document their lives during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order in a journal that also included a time capsule, poems, letters and pictures of their experiences. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Barrington, RI Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Covid-19 Barrington Middle School's Lime Cluster Student Reflections Creator Who created this item? Justin Tibbetts Date When was this item created? 3/23/20 Description What is it all about? This student work is the result of an assignment in the 6th grade classrooms of the Barrington Middle School's Lime Cluster Students who were asked to complete a weekly journal documenting how COVID 19 was impacting their lives from March-June during the stay-at-home order. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Barrington, RI Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? Barrington Middle School Language A language of the resource English Barrington COVID-19 (Disease) Diaries Distance education Students Videoconferencing Young adults https://www.ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/e8cdf12c89971080b6026c90f9454917.pdf 39ecb66b119a661076da133c1a924d70 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Barrington Middle School Description What is it all about? Classroom teachers, Diana Ouellette and Traci Taglione, asked sixth-grade Lime Cluster students at Barrington Middle School in Barrington to document their lives during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order in a journal that also included a time capsule, poems, letters and pictures of their experiences. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Barrington, RI Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Covid-19 Barrington Middle School's Lime Cluster Student Reflections Creator Who created this item? Katherine Yang Date When was this item created? 3/23/20 Description What is it all about? This student work is the result of an assignment in the 6th grade classrooms of the Barrington Middle School's Lime Cluster Students who were asked to complete a weekly journal documenting how COVID 19 was impacting their lives from March-June during the stay-at-home order. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Barrington, RI Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? Barrington Middle School Language A language of the resource English Barrington Boredom COVID-19 (Disease) Diaries Social isolation Students Young adults https://www.ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/5f9c21bc32f8162f58294c8ba4686298.jpg dabe9376d51ca772590fe3fbd08fbb22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Lfj Gill: A Long Day’s Journal Description What is it all about? Navigating a double pandemic in a divided world. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. From an email to a friend today: May 13, 2020 Yep, things have certainly changed. As an introvert, I have greatly (almost guiltily) enjoyed the quiet, the staying in and having everybody else staying in, too—the corridors empty, no chatter, no ambush when going down the hall to get the mail or empty the trash—hardly any traffic on the roads the few times I went out to pick up my groceries...  I am sure it is harder on extroverts, though maybe some have taken this chance to discover they have an inner life, full of potential riches, the din of the world having been silenced for a while. As you say, strange times indeed. Terribly tragic times for so many. Listening to the various governors' news briefs now is like listening to the evening news during Viet Nam—so many infected today, so many in the ICU, so many deaths. Already far more than we lost in Viet Nam—and yet—maybe because I don't look for it—I don't hear much of a hue and cry—not enough for the situation at least. Eighty-five thousand Americans DEAD—and that’s only so far! I vividly recall we would sit in front of the TV every evening, cringing in horrified anticipation, watching the news report of the day’s body count. It was our friends, brothers and sweethearts being sent to the slaughter at that time. I can still feel the pain in the heart, watching the images of body bags and hearing the soul-wrenching numbers. And that was a situation both created by and stoppable by human beings. Yet the slaughter went on and on, insanely, unforgivably. Now in this Covid situation we get data. Every day in the governors’ news briefs, “Today’s numbers are: 650 new positive cases, 400 hospitalized, 100 in the ICU, 75 on ventilators, 85 new deaths…” Numbers, with no human faces. Bodies, not souls. Why don’t they include a look at some of those people trying to breathe in the ICU? There are videos popping up on Youtube made by patients with their phones, gasping out their stories and warning people to “take this thing seriously”—and some are quite young. Maybe the people who don’t deign to protect the rest of us by wearing face coverings would wake up if they saw the human beings behind the numbers on their screens. _____________ Corona Virus Journal for RI Historical Society Covid-19 Archives Journal #3 The Human Beings Behind the Numbers —Lfj Gill Location Where was this item created? Hopkinton, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Data vs real live human beings Date When was this created? 2020-05-13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? COVID-19 JOURNAL #3 HUMAN FACES BEHIND THE NUMBERS Creator Who created this item? Lfj Gill Communication COVID-19 (Disease) Death Friendship Governors Hopkinton Journalism Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Lfj Gill: A Long Day’s Journal Description What is it all about? Navigating a double pandemic in a divided world. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. COVID-19 JOURNAL #5 NOT POLITICAL “We’re trying to give you the very best advice we can, and it is going to be changing goal posts…. I don’t set the goal posts. The virus sets the goal posts. As we see things change, our guidance is going to change.” —Governor Raimondo (News brief 5/15/2020) Covid-19 is not political. Not even bi-partisan. It is a mindless, soulless, non-human pathogen transmitted from human to human by breath (talk, sneeze, cough, laugh)—whether or not the infected person has symptoms—and which to date has sickened 1.4 million Americans and sent 86,000 through horrible suffering to death. As state and federal governments attempt to mitigate its effects and prevent further disaster, the limitations of their (or anyone’s) control are increasingly obvious, and the political maneuverings of some in government increasingly horrifying. I, for one, am deeply grateful for a governor, health department, and congressional delegation who do their utmost to utilize the best advice of epidemiologists and infectious disease experts as they work to protect and serve us, the people in Rhode Island. Some informative notes on viruses I found today while attempting to learn more about what we are dealing with: “A virus is a microscopic organism that can replicate only inside the cells of a host organism…. Viruses infect all types of organisms, including animals and plants, as well as bacteria and archaea. “Viruses are microscopic parasites responsible for a host of familiar – and often fatal – diseases, including the flu, Ebola, measles and HIV. They are made up of DNA or RNA encapsulated in a protein shell and can only survive and replicate inside a living host, which could be any organism on earth. This means no life form is safe from infection by a virus. “Ultimately, science may never agree on whether viruses are alive or not. E. Rybicki described them as being “at the edge of life” – for now, this may be the closest we will get to an answer.” ________________ 1 CDC https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html 2 Encyclopedia of Life —www.eol.org Nb: Scientists still argue whether to call a virus an “organism”, since that term implies life. See final note. 3 https://www.newscientist.com/question/are-viruses-alive Location Where was this item created? Hopkinton, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Covid-19 is not political, nor partisan. Date When was this created? 2020-05-15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? COVID-19 JOURNAL #5 NOT POLITICAL Creator Who created this item? Lfj Gill COVID-19 (Disease) Death Diaries Government Governors Politics & government https://www.ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/169672bcf23ccc2a9b6d9e5106358e82.mp3 2328526087fa97668526b10089d4b10f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? South County Voices of Covid Description What is it all about? Created by Sophie Richter, the SCVC ("civic") project is a oral storytelling platform developed in response to the significant impact Covid-19 is having on our communities. SCVC was born out of a need to cut through the often reductive news-media cycles and pivot to local stories that dig deeper into what makes up our community in South County. ​​The project aims to collect oral histories from South County residents recounting their lived experiences of Covid-19. You can learn more about the project at http://www.scvcproject.com/. Creator Who created this item? Sophia Richter Date When was this item created? 2020-2021 Sound Could include oral histories, music or other recorded sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Debra Tanner interview Description What is it all about? Interview between Sophia Richter and Debra Tanner on her personal experiences navigating healthcare during covid and the need she saw and responded to in the community. Debra is Development Director of the Southern Rhode Island Volunteers and discusses the work being done to serve her community. She reflects on the Washington County Fair, helping elders in need of food and transport, and civic duty. Creator Who created this item? Sophia Richter Date When was this item created? 10/27/2020 Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Kingston, RI COVID-19 (Disease) Disinfection and disinfectants Groceries Healthcare workers Hope Hygiene Loss Masks Older people Politics & government Restaurants Social distancing Social media https://www.ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/a925e12699effa15735d4444e4032ca8.pdf d038be4b600852b533ce331f5fb6b737 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Excerpts from a Covid Diary Description What is it all about? Excerpts from a personal COVID journal kept starting April 1, 2020 so that my grandchildren would have a first-hand account of the experience of the pandemic. The entries describe the ways that life adjusted to deal with the lockdown and the subsequent changes as the country adapted. Creator Who created this item? Cheryl Teverow Date When was this item created? April 2020 - October 2021 COVID-19 (Disease) Diaries Families Holidays Masks Quarantines Shopping https://www.ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/b486e82ce23d78b53b2c2d0d902a4469.pdf 2908ca2fab2a3df82092fc73e6991e70 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Picturing the Pandemic exhibit Description What is it all about? "Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journal Project and the Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive" was an exhibit at the Providence Public Library in Spring 2023. It drew from contributions to the Pandemic Journaling Project co-launched by anthropologists at Brown University and University of Connecticut and from the RI COVID-19 Archive. Visitors to the exhibit were encouraging to create new contributions to the archive in response. Creator Who created this item? Providence Public Library Date When was this item created? May-June 2023 Still Image This could include any kind of visual item. For example: photographs, paintings, drawings or maps. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Go away, Covid-19 :( Description What is it all about? This item was contributed in person to a collective binder at the exhibition Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project and the Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive. Creator Who created this item? Anonymous Date When was this item created? June 2023 Language A language of the resource English Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? Providence Public Library COVID-19 (Disease) https://www.ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/263e9bb21131271c20b8c4968e4cb5a6.pdf 56395947d1b7d7ca99e9df7b6cc92d71 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Public Contributions Description What is it all about? Crowdsourced stories, images and recordings that reflect the individual experiences of Rhode Islanders during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Location Where was this item created? Rhode Island Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? my family and I experiencing the COVID-19 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Having experienced the COVID-19 Creator Who created this item? anonymous Date When was this item created? 2020-05-07 Anger COVID-19 (Disease) Dead Diseases Essay Essential workers Nursing homes Older people Providence College Sickness Students https://www.ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/34f6b0d3332861fd4582b29051969aff.pdf a4a99876ad89760d1e5875a2b99b5f7c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? De La Salle Middle School Description What is it all about? Welcome to the DLS COVID-19 time capsule archive where you can take a journey back in time to the year 2020 when everyone’s lives were turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn about how De La Salle 6th and 8th grade students adapted to quarantine and distance learning. As part of their social studies classes, students were asked to share what they did while stuck at home including taking classes via Zoom (a video conferencing program), pursuing new and old hobbies, staying connected with friends, and spending WAY more time with their families than ever before. They were able to share these videos and slideshows with their classmates and hope that sometime in the future these projects will help students just like them learn about the unusual spring of 2020. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Israni Time Capsule Project Creator Who created this item? Ajay Israni Date When was this item created? 5/29/20 Description What is it all about? This student work was the final assignment for a 6th Grade Social Studies Class at De La Salle Middle School. Students were required to create a minimum 3-5 slide presentation concerning a variety of topics about life in quarantine and online learning. In addition, students were required to compose a letter to themselves at some point in the future as chosen by themselves. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Providence, RI Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? De La Salle Middle School Language A language of the resource English COVID-19 (Disease) Distance education Essential workers Families Front line workers Future Heroes Holidays Social distancing Stay at home Students https://www.ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/296b4a38b46a44596b814bb8f9cf2688.JPG 09fe77aa3aa4d57e4db9287876181915 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Public Contributions Description What is it all about? Crowdsourced stories, images and recordings that reflect the individual experiences of Rhode Islanders during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Still Image This could include any kind of visual item. For example: photographs, paintings, drawings or maps. Creator Who created this item? This might be you or someone else. Please list the full name or "anonymous" if you prefer Dr. David Weed, Coordinator of the Sowams Heritage Area Project Date When was this created? April 2020 Location Where was this item created? Warren, RI Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Plagues, Pokanokets and Pilgrims in the 17th century Description What is it all about? Before the arrival of Europeans in the Americans in the late 15th century, the Pokanoket people lived in a relatively disease-free environment.Starting in 1616, those same people began to suffer from a series of pandemics that wiped out up to 90% of their numbers. So, how did these infectious diseases first come to New England in the 17th century and what was their effect on both Pokanokets and Pilgrims? This fifteen minute video presentation reviews the worldwide history of pandemics an their effects on shaping 17th century history in New England. See it at https://youtu.be/5HYHVHx3WII COVID-19 (Disease) History Indigenous peoples New England