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 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 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 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 →
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 →