2-28-19 Maddy Kelm

Today I am feeling a bit under the weather, so just decided to keep moving forward on Jason project. I have the 1984 publication scanned and OCRed hopefully that's what we are hoping for with this hope to touch base with Sara on Tuesday!

2-27-19 Turetsky

Just about finished with Folder 6, only six pages left to scan.

Mary let me know that I should be re-stapling the documents that I've de-stapled for scanning. Did so with the two issues of Indians at Work in Folder 6, will move on to stapling the smaller bunches of documents on Friday.

2-26-19 Maddy Kelm

Today was a little upsetting went back to work on Jason but the minute I opened the next one up it started to crack. Still tried to take picture but not too much success. So I decided to OCR the older documents. Looking to keep moving forward on this on Thursday.

Turetsky 2-22-19

My cursive illiteracy is coming to haunt me. I couldn't make out most of box1folder5letters0040.tif, a a handwritten note about a husband and wife "William and Mary ______." The last name looks to me like "Winatata" but I'm not very confident. Could someone please take a look and let me know if the title "Note on William and Mary Winatata" is right?

Finished Folder 5 and the better part of Folder 6.

2-21-2019 Maddy Kelm

Today was a good day! Spoke to Mary and Bill about the best way to go about the Jason Scanning. I tried using the Plustek scanner but I felt I was handling the book too much and not getting the greatest scans because if you opened the book too much it began to crack.

Didn't get too far before I realized this way a bad idea. Then moved to The Beast and once everything was focused and set up the rhythm synced in. I got an entire booked scanned and moved. Looking forward to continuing this project.

Turetsky 2-20-19

Today I got about halfway through Folder 5.

Some of the internal Indian Affairs documents threw me for a loop in terms of source format--I didn't want to just label everything "memorandum"... Any suggestions?

2-19-2019 Maddy Kelm

Been a while since I used the book scanner and OCRed, but luckily I jumped right back in. I was able to jump into the Jason scanning project. Looking forward to picking it up on Thursday.

2-14-19 Maddy Kelm

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, EVERYONE!

After many hiccups with the ATIZ scanner I was finally able to come in today with everything set up and finally finish up the Law School Project. Got me to keep hacking away and Photoshop and was super interesting.

One thing that I thought was really interesting was the increase in women and diversity as the years increased, also of course the change in hairstyles. Also on on of the class photos there was a photographed picture of what looked like a chair at the end after everyone else's picture, which I thought was hilarious, but also intriguing.

Next week I plan to keep hacking at the Nichols Plaque projects and maybe get some JASON scanned. Will keep you guys updated :)

2-13-19 Turetsky

Finished scanning Folder 4.

Added "19uu" to DPLA date field for undated materials.
When only there's only a year specified, is simply "1921" correct for both date fields?

Added full names to the titles of multi-page documents as suggested (i.e. "Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest, p. 2" instead of just "p. 2").

2-12-2019 Maddy Kelm

Today was interesting to say the least. Because of the bad weather stayed in to catch up on other projects. I started scanning the Law School Classes for Selicity, and because of the largeness of the images had to adjust somethings to get them to fit for the ATIZ. Hoping to have those finished by next Thursday at the latest.

Also Sara was able to figure out how to add GPS coordinates into metadata, so I began updating the metadata for many of the pictures, hoping to continue with that project soon.

Turetsky 2-8-19

Today I finished up Folder 2, got through all of Folder 3, and made headway on Folder 4.

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Where the only date information available is the month and year, I've entered the DPLA date as XX/XXXX (see "Indians are Citizens, Not Wards" box1folder2histdocs0044.tif-0046.tif).

1) Is this correct?

2) Google Sheets does this odd thing where when you only enter month and year, it automatically assumes the 1st of the month (double click the DPLA field on the scan mentioned above and you'll see). Will this be an issue?

The transcribed speech by former Chemawa student William Frazier (box1folder2histdocs0047.tif) doesn't really have a page title--I titled the page "William Frazier at Covelo, CA Indepedence Day celebration," is this suitable?

In Folder 2 I've used "clippings (information artifacts)" in the source format field pretty generously. @Sara, have I used it anywhere that you think it doesn't really apply?

The poem "Chief Joseph" (box1folder2histdocs0049.tif) afforded me a better understanding of the OIA "memo" (box1folder2histdocs0023.tif)--learned that what is referred to as "the Victory Ship, Chief Joseph" was a ship christened in the name of the late Modoc chief, and its full name was "The Spirit of Chief Joseph." Updated the description field of the memo to reflect this info.

Folder 3, "Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest" is compiled by Charles E. Larsen--should I list him as the author in the metadata?

I couldn't find a date associated with this compilation.

Updated collection titles on every folder from "Larson" to Larsen.

Since everything thus far (with the exception of Folder 4) has been "text" in the "type" field, is it kosher to keep on only entering a "type" for the first row that describes the entire folder, or should I be entering "text" on every line?

How should I go about giving page titles to letters? I've used this format so far:

"John Collier to Members of the Indian Service, Tribal Councils, and other Indian Leadership, and Friends of the Indians' Cause"

"Franklin D. Roosevelt to John Collier"

Is that alright?

Also, how am I doing with the "# of pages" metadata? In Folders 2 and 4 I've given each cluster of related scans a  # -- using "1" if it's a standalone.  With Folders like 1 and 3, where every page has been related, I've left the "# of pages" field blank except for the first row describing the whole folder.

Is this correct?

2-5-19 and 2-7-19 Maddy

Today I am doing a combined post because these fit extremely well together.

So on my treasure hunt I have been able to secure 16 GPS locations and photographs that go along with the Nichols spreadsheet.

In the MOH folder I have for this I also have a folder of "Not in Spreadsheet", of plaques I found along my travels and photographed mistakenly thinking they were all of the spreadsheet. Not sure what we want to do with them, but it could be interesting.

Most of the rest I plan to photograph on my way around campus, because the majority that are left are trees, or things I need to rephotograph because my original picture was not taken well.

Hopefully will continue with this project when it gets to be much warmer and less snowier outside.

Next week will move to Selicity's Project for the Law school.

2-6-19 Turetsky

Added a note on the spelling of Comcomly/Comcumly in the description of the "Chief Comcumly's Followers" document as suggested.

After looking at Sara's alterations to the metadata I definitely have a better understanding of how to use the source format and subject fields.

Today I've made my way through more than half of folder 2, and I expect to be moving on to 3 pretty quickly on Friday.

1-31-19 Maddy Kelm

Late blog, the first one decided to not publish :(.

But today was an interesting day. I decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and went out to start photographing some monuments and plaques for the Nichols' Project. Was able to find most on the east side of campus. Later in the day uploaded the jpegs into the folder and tried to mess around with photoshop to see how I could fix up some of my camera mistakes. Most have been edited, but not all the photos. I am excited to get these photos documented.

Also spoke to Galin and she mentioned many plaques, over on the Law Libraries campus, that were not on the list. I wondered if in the future there could possibly be a cool project in the future.

2-1-19 Turetsky

I unfortunately slept through my alarm and first class this morning... So today I worked from 12:00pm-4:00pm, not 10:30am-12:00pm & 1:00pm-4:00pm.

I got through all of Folder 1 and made a dent in Folder 2: through the "Souvenir of the 83rd Anniversary of the Organization of the First American Civil Government West of the Rocky Mountains."

Recipe folder:
The titles of some of the recipes have some unique spellings (e.g., "pine apple," "tapicoa," "Tapico" (listed as an ingredient--and capitalized--perhaps a brand of "tapicoa"?)

Also, some of the recipes contained on a individual page had little in common, so I had to make some page titles in the metadata somewhat long to accurately capture the contents of these pages.

There were 13 pages of exact duplicates, while some (the pudding and pickle recipes) had two different pages with some recipes in common, but also featured new ones; I titled these "Pickle/Pudding recipes, contd."

Day one copying originals 1855-1953 [Native American history documents] folder:
I was unsure in which metadata field to put the "1855-1953" bit--should I include it in the folder title? The description? Or only in the date field?

Another question for Sara: I don't know how exactly I should be using the source format field. Is this supposed to be a label that cohesively describes the entire folder (like "recipes" for Folder 1), or a unique format description for each document? The documents in Folder 2 seem harder to pin down under one particular format like "recipes".

The "Treaty with Dwamish, Suquamish, etc." document says it was signed 01/22/1855; proclaimed 04/11/1859; ratified 03/08/1859... Which should I enter in the metadata?

I'm sure this folder is rife with unique spellings, but one that stood out immediately was "Chief Comcumly." We've actually been reading about him in my Race/Eth. in the American West class, and modern scholars spell it Comcomly.
          - Hmm... He's actually referred to as "Com-com-ly" at later points in the document.

I turned up the contrast on some of these to improve readability, beginning with "Chief Comcumly's Followers".

This "Souvenir of the 83rd Anniversary of the Organization of the First American Civil Government West of the Rocky Mountains" booklet (box1folder2histdocs0015 to box1folder2histdocs0022) also has a very long title, but I can't really think of how else to title it.
         - I've entered what I thought would be appropriate in the description field for each page--should I also come up with subject, type, or source format for these?
         - @Sara, please let me know your thoughts on Wednesday regarding this^ / whether the rest of today's metadata looks okay.