Eaglecaching, as a project, was an interesting project to review. It had some interesting ideas and concepts, but falls shorts in some areas.

When reviewing the site’s methodology, we found that some of the given coordinates were incorrect with where caches were located. Our one teammate, attempting to find one cache, ended up in China first, then Virginia. Neither are the location of American University’s campus. Even more concerning was the lack of consistency between the coordinates, since only some did not work while others did. This leads us to believe that the fact-checking was not thorough.

We also noted some issues with the site itself, such as tab dropdowns being covered up by images on the site, and the entire Future Plans part of the site being completely blank.

Still, there is much to commend the project on. As a project based around the activity of geocaching, it makes great use of space, place, and location. It also meets many criteria for digital humanities projects, being a completely open activity for anyone on campus to participate in, and being continued forward by those participants. Compared to other peer projects, it falls short in detail and presentation – but as it is a project completed only in weeks (as opposed to other’s months or years), it is still an impressive project.

Overall, despite some flaws to the site and project, it was still well done and enjoyable to review.