Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 75 I have to login and out at CML, and I’m finding, just like at B&N, I’m pretty terrible at remembering to do so around my lunch break. Today, my project is the Poindexter Village Construction Journal. First, I created a new ContentDM project, as there are nearly 100 images in this project. I spent most… More →
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Day 9 at CML
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 67.5 Today, I got back to work on the NAACP collection. I finished up created all the metadata, then noticed that the images are too big. I moved them over to the shared drive from the external hard drive and set them for a batch resize while I finished metadata creation. Then I created a new… More →
Day 8 at CML
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 60 Upon arrival, I noticed a couple of the files from one of my sets had caused errors, so I fixed them and finished the small batch imports. Then I added all the metadata to them and set them to upload. Next, I moved on to the last small batch, which had seemed much bigger by… More →
Day 7 at CML
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 52.5 Aaron approved my metadata work from last week, and had uploaded it for me. When I got in, I set it to approve and index after on last quick check. Next, I started work on the Nimrod Allen collection. I had started the import before leaving last week, but 8 of the folders had not… More →
Day 6 at CML
Hours: 7.75 Total Hours: 45 Today, I finished the last approval and indexing of the Annual Reports and began the African American Collection photos from the Ohio History Conncetion. I started with the C.W. Bryant Collection that I had sorted yesterday. First,I created a new collection in ContentDM’s Project Client. Next, I put all the singles into one folder, for… More →
Day 5 at CML
Hours: 7.75 Total Hours: 37.25 I started out the day figuring out the proper specifications for an A4 OCR page with Aaron. We then did a batch resize of 1883-84. Fortunately, my batch import from last week was mostly successful. Only 1887-88 did not go through. So, I added metadata to all of these years and uploaded them for approval.… More →
Day 4 at CML
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 29.5 The new reports have fold-out fire reports, which, while very interesting, are over-sized, and problematic for the OCR process. So there was a lot more re-sizing to work on today. I completed two and a half, more years, I was still having trouble with a few files in the 1880-81 when I finished the day.… More →
Day 3 at CML
Hours: 3 Total Hours: 22 After the OhioDIG meeting, I went back to Local History and Genealogy. I worked on getting more of the Annual Report into the collection. I also added a browse link to the collection homepage, and asked Aaron about changing the cover images on the objects. I was able to get two more reports into the… More →
Ohio Digital Interest Group Meeting
Hours: 4 Otterbein Total Hours: 30 CML Total Hours: 19 The main presentation for the meeting was from The Ohio State University Library. The presentation was called Harnessing the Lifecycle. It was about how the OSUL created a Digital Preservation Policy Framework, their Strategic Digital Vision, a Digital Content Workflow, and a Digital Presentation Task Force. I liked the organizational… More →
Day 2 at CML
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 15 Back to work on the City of Columbus collection. I fixed a few more propagation issues, and three incorrect identifiers from my first day, and got those uploaded and verified first thing. I then went on to add 1867-8 through 1874-5 to the collection. A few years are missing from the physical collection, so there… More →