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 →
Tag: Annual Reports
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 →
Day 1 at CML
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… More →