I finished the uploading the Wilbur Collection today! All the documents are edited and online. Sara told me that the next step will be a big metadata cleanup, but I'm not really sure how to go about doing that. But until all that happens, at least the collection is online.
Now I can focus all my attention on the Wallulahs. I just finished editing the 1964 Wallulah and will scan the 1970 Wallulah tomorrow. My goal is to scan two Wallulahs a day and probably two or three wallulahs a week for the rest of the summer.
Looking ahead:
I will be gone Monday, July 28-Wednesday, July 30.
I'll be here the following week full time.
From Monday, August 11 to Friday, August 15 I'm hoping to only work until 11am each day.
The week after that I will be here full time.
And then I start classes again on Tuesday, August 26.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Thursday
I'm leaving for the weekend now so here is a quick update on the week:
Wallulahs:
Still truckin' on the yearbooks. ABBYY software is still weird on the computers.
Wilbur letters:
I'll probably have all the folders online next week. Sara said we will probably do a big metadata cleanup in the fall.
Sackett photos:
I talked to Shanel today about the best way to mount the photos. She sent me to Chris to talk about ordering the right kind of foam board and enough of it. Chris said he will place a small order and we can try it and see if it works and we can order more if we need to we can order more!
Wallulahs:
Still truckin' on the yearbooks. ABBYY software is still weird on the computers.
Wilbur letters:
I'll probably have all the folders online next week. Sara said we will probably do a big metadata cleanup in the fall.
Sackett photos:
I talked to Shanel today about the best way to mount the photos. She sent me to Chris to talk about ordering the right kind of foam board and enough of it. Chris said he will place a small order and we can try it and see if it works and we can order more if we need to we can order more!
Friday, July 11, 2014
Friday
Packwood slides:
I was not able to finish scanning the Packwood slides, but I'll definitely have them done on Monday.
Wilbur:
Everything through Folder 4 should be online and edited.
Wallulahs:
I scanned 1968 today and was able to edit most of 1961.
Sackett Photos:
I just looked at the prints of the Sackett photos and they are beautiful! I'm so excited. I'll need to trim the white off almost all of them but then I will put them up here on Monday. I'm sure everyone knows how obsessed I was those the photos before, but now seeing them printed has made me even more obsessed. They will look amazing once I get them up.
I was not able to finish scanning the Packwood slides, but I'll definitely have them done on Monday.
Wilbur:
Everything through Folder 4 should be online and edited.
Wallulahs:
I scanned 1968 today and was able to edit most of 1961.
Sackett Photos:
I just looked at the prints of the Sackett photos and they are beautiful! I'm so excited. I'll need to trim the white off almost all of them but then I will put them up here on Monday. I'm sure everyone knows how obsessed I was those the photos before, but now seeing them printed has made me even more obsessed. They will look amazing once I get them up.
Monday, July 7, 2014
Monday
I spent today working on the Wilbur letters. The first two folders of letters are online. I think I will keep editing as we decide how we want names and geography standardized. I'm uploading the third folder as this is being written, and will start editing those probably tomorrow as it is a large batch of letters and it's taking a long time to get into CONTENTdm.
There is still more organizing that I need to do to the rest of the folders before they can get online.
I will get back to work on the Wallulahs tomorrow, and try to break up my day so I spend about half of it on the Wallulahs and half of it on the Wilbur letters. The ABBYY process should be all good once I update the circulation desk computer, but that won't happen until the top of the desk is back on.
There is still more organizing that I need to do to the rest of the folders before they can get online.
I will get back to work on the Wallulahs tomorrow, and try to break up my day so I spend about half of it on the Wallulahs and half of it on the Wilbur letters. The ABBYY process should be all good once I update the circulation desk computer, but that won't happen until the top of the desk is back on.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Weekend Update
Wallulahs:
I scanned and edited way too many Wallulahs for my own sanity this week. So I took a break from that yesterday and today and went back to the Wilbur letters. I'm at 1966 for scanning and 1960 for editing. I still have to Photoshop almost every page to fix the rotation of the page and the moire problems. But the whole process has gone a lot faster than it used to so it's not really a problem.
Did Atiz every send us the new arm that we needed on the scanner because of the screw issue?
Wilbur Collection:
Sara has filled me in on what sort of organizing needs to be done to get the Wilbur letters into CONTENTdm. I started working on that yesterday and today. It's tedious work, but it's another good step for me to check my work and make sure there aren't any mistakes. On Monday we should be able to put at least the first folder of letters online.
I was wondering where I should put the original text .doc, because it sounds like it shouldn't be in the Transcriptions folder where all the .txt pages are now, and right now that is the case.
ABBYY:
We finally got the license and the update today. I installed 4.0 and uninstalled 3.5. Everything seemed fine until I tried to open the Scanning Station, which is where we put the files that are fed to the Verification Station. But the Scanning Station wouldn't open. Instead I placed the files right into the Input folder, which does the same thing, and either method is fine, but I was frustrated that the Scanning Station wasn't opening. I did all the troubleshooting I could think of (checked to make sure all the programs are running and then restarted the computer) but it didn't work. Besides that, I ran through the entire program with the 1906 Wallulah and there were no other problems. I placed the next Wallulah into the input folder and let the Circulation Desk people know that they can try to use the program again. I was thinking though that we might have to update the software on that computer, because it's still running 3.5, but I'm not sure. The saga continues.
I scanned and edited way too many Wallulahs for my own sanity this week. So I took a break from that yesterday and today and went back to the Wilbur letters. I'm at 1966 for scanning and 1960 for editing. I still have to Photoshop almost every page to fix the rotation of the page and the moire problems. But the whole process has gone a lot faster than it used to so it's not really a problem.
Did Atiz every send us the new arm that we needed on the scanner because of the screw issue?
Wilbur Collection:
Sara has filled me in on what sort of organizing needs to be done to get the Wilbur letters into CONTENTdm. I started working on that yesterday and today. It's tedious work, but it's another good step for me to check my work and make sure there aren't any mistakes. On Monday we should be able to put at least the first folder of letters online.
I was wondering where I should put the original text .doc, because it sounds like it shouldn't be in the Transcriptions folder where all the .txt pages are now, and right now that is the case.
ABBYY:
We finally got the license and the update today. I installed 4.0 and uninstalled 3.5. Everything seemed fine until I tried to open the Scanning Station, which is where we put the files that are fed to the Verification Station. But the Scanning Station wouldn't open. Instead I placed the files right into the Input folder, which does the same thing, and either method is fine, but I was frustrated that the Scanning Station wasn't opening. I did all the troubleshooting I could think of (checked to make sure all the programs are running and then restarted the computer) but it didn't work. Besides that, I ran through the entire program with the 1906 Wallulah and there were no other problems. I placed the next Wallulah into the input folder and let the Circulation Desk people know that they can try to use the program again. I was thinking though that we might have to update the software on that computer, because it's still running 3.5, but I'm not sure. The saga continues.
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