Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 7.5
My first day was a crash course in ContentDM. Aaron showed me how to create a new collection, choose the metadata set to base it off of, and how to add or remove fields. He showed me how to link the new collection to the Project Client, edit the main metadata template for default values, and a little bit about how he customizes the webpage for the collections.
We jumped right in and created the City of Columbus collection. Then he showed me how to add compound objects to the collection, making sure to OCR the pages, and create a Print PDF for each object. He then showed me how to troubleshoot. The first object we tried to add had a couple of uncropped images, so my first task was to go through all of the objects and remove these extra images (the cropped images were in the folder, too, but the originals had not been removed). He also went through all the folders and deleted the extraneous XML files that the digitization process had created. We had a quick meeting with Angela to determine how we were going to title the objects in this collection for ease of access. We decided on Date first, then Annual Reports.
The rest of my day was spent putting content up into this collection. I would choose the file folder of the next object, import it (which OCRed it and created the Print PDF), edit the metadata, upload it to the collection, approve the object and index the collection, and lastly, verify that everything had gone smoothly. I discovered a problem with our default template propagating incorrect default values, and had to remove a few. Though, even with those removals, because we had set up the default fields in the metadata template, I only had to add description, contributor, publisher, date of original, search date, time period, and identifier.
On day one, I uploaded Annual reports from 1858-9 through 1865-6 into the collection.