Chopin Practicum
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Day 32--4/19/06
5 Hours:
Met with Catherine Murdikes
Met with Catherine Murdikes
- works on Italian Women Writers (IWW)
- discussed the various structural issues of creating tables, etc...
- turned in my final drafts of all documenation
- reviewed them--they all passed the test
- thanked Tod for his time, help, insight, and encouragment
Day 31--4/13/06
3 Hours:
Met with Tod
Met with Tod
- Delivered final draft of MODS suggestions
- Discussed various computing in the Humanities projects and issues
Day 30--3/29/06
10 Hours:
Spoke with Jerry Hall
Spoke with Jerry Hall
- Manages the Digital South Asia Library project
- uses Philologic (ARTFL people) for dictionaries
- encoding is outsourced to India
- can thus search full text--scanned OCR and hand input
- will be 250,00 images
- in English and Tamil
- will add sound files from the 1900s
- Discussed more MODS
- Also talked about jobs and what to expect when interviewing, etc...
- worked long and hard at finalizing all drafts of documentation
Day 29--3/22/06
5 Hours:
Spoke with Christie Tomas
Spoke with Christie Tomas
- working on http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/
- K-12 digital library project
- partnership with Chicago Public Schools
- focuses on interactivity and multidimensional reference materials and resources
- working on http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/
- Ancient Mesoptamia
- another K-12 digital library project
- goal is to be extremely interactive
- has worked on various digital library projects
Day 28--3/21/06
3 Hours:
Endeca presentation
Descriptive documentation revisions with Scott ¶ 11:32 AM 0 comments
Endeca presentation
- attended the Endeca presentation with all library staff
- Endeca is a company the adds value to searchable databases such as the library catalog
- currently NCSU is using Endeca--faceted searches
Descriptive documentation revisions with Scott ¶ 11:32 AM 0 comments
Day 27--3/15/06
3 Hours:
East Asian Art Collection
East Asian Art Collection
- Met with Katherine Mino
- spoke about the projects that are being completed in the department
- paid particular interest to the scrolls collection
- a collection of scrolls that have been digitized and are now used as research tools for students. the scrolls have "hot points" in which informational bubbles reveal themselves
- discussed the future caves project
- their are several headless Buddhas in caves--this project will superimpose the heads to the bodies and create a virtual representation for study
Day 26--3/14/06
2 Hours:
Draft of MODS proposal due to Tod
Draft of MODS proposal due to Tod
- we discussed the necessary changes and also went over any questions I had concerning the schema
Day 25--3/10/06
5 Hours:
Discussed MODS changes with Tod
ARTFL
Discussed MODS changes with Tod
ARTFL
- Spoke with Mark Olson one of the creators of ARTFL
- ARTFL currently consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
- It is a database in which various searches can be done in order to complete linguistic analysis, etc...
Day 24--3/8/06
5 Hours:
More MODS
More MODS
- Figured out which updates were necessary
- MODS version has changed since the inception of the project
- no longer need extensions, etc...
- Upon figuring out the necessary updates I documented them for Tod
Day 23--3/7/06
4 Hours:
Reviewed MODS
Reviewed MODS
- used jEdit an XML editor in order to mess with the existing MODS structure
Day 22--3/1/06
3 Hours:
Met with Kate, Tod, and Jane
Met with Kate, Tod, and Jane
- Discussed progress so far
- Discussed changes to occur
- I have an interest to see and talk with people working on other digital content projects
Day 21--2/27/06
5 Hours:
Documenation
Documenation
- Pieced together all of the necessary updates in order to bring second draft to Tod
Day 20--2/22/06
5 Hours:
Documentation
Read the articles from Tod ¶ 11:12 AM 0 comments
Documentation
- Up dated the documents according to Tod's suggestions
Read the articles from Tod ¶ 11:12 AM 0 comments
Day 19--2/17/06
5 Hours
On site
On site
- Overview/orientation with the Human Resources Department
- discussed the structure of the library departments
- took a detailed tour of the library and spoke with many people in various departments along the way
- Edited the first draft of the documentation with Tod
- Tod passed along some reading assignments
- Articles about documenting music bibliographic information
Day 18--2/14/06
2 Hours:
Documenation
Documenation
- Worked on putting it all together--touch ups
- More proofing
- Finished up descriptive metadata document
- questions for Tod
Day 17--2/10/06
3 Hours:
Documentation
Documentation
- Proofread
- Added content to descriptive document
- Emailed questions
- Scheduled future meetings
- Reorganzied some of the structural document
Day 15--2/7/06
2 Hours:
Documentation
Documentation
- Re-analyzed the structural and technical metadata documents
Day 14--2/1/06
4 Hours:
On site
On site
- Discussed and overviewed other digital projects the Digital Reformatting group is working on
- Discussed the questions I posed on 1/25
Day 13--1/30/06
4 Hours:
Documentation...
Documentation...
- Created seperate documents for each division
- Focused on working on the descriptive metadata
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Day 12--1/25/06
4 Hours:
Documentation, documentation, documentation...
Questions I have:
What sizes are the jpegs delivered in (I though 200 and 700)?
doc I have says:
What about these:
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Documentation, documentation, documentation...
Questions I have:
What sizes are the jpegs delivered in (I though 200 and 700)?
doc I have says:
- A scaled, screen-sized JPEG file for quick browseability, maximum file size 150KB, pixel dimensions between 700-800W
- A scaled but larger JPEG file for closer inspection of details, maximum file size 1MB, pixel dimensions between 2000-3000W
What about these:
- Possible thumbnail GIF used to display with bibliographic information (if desired, can be generated from larger JPEG file
- A DjVu file, saved in “scanned” and “indirect modes” (all file sizes less than 100KB) for printing and zooming in on the files. Requires a browser plug-in to view.
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Day 9--1/18/06
2 Hours
- Documentation
- created tables
- organized and entered information on the Technical Metadata
Day 8--1/16/06
1 Hour
- blogged
- emailed Tod with documentation updates
- finished reviewing the XML article
Monday, January 16, 2006
Day 7--1/13/06
1 Hour:
- Emailing with Tod
- Reviewed an article on XML (assigned by Tod)
Day 5--1/11/06
2 Hours:
- Met with the music cataloger
-discussed the choices that were made concerning the MARC records--variable fields, local fields, etc... - jEdit review with Tod
-really cleared up my fears about working with jEdit - General review of practicum responsibilities and goal outlining
Day 4--1/10/06
30 Minutes:
- Meeting with Kate (advisor)
-discussed date for first on-site visit
-discussed progress and concerns, thus far - Emailed Tod with basic information on scheduling, etc...
Day 3--1/9/06
1 Hour:
- Worked on documentation
-included basic definitions of key terms used throughout the project - Completed a jEdit tutorial
-reviewed the accompanying instruction manual
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Day 2--1/5/06
3 Hours:
- Downloaded and reviewed jEdit
-I found the review of this to be quite confusing and discussed my concerns with Tod. He suggested I look for some sort of tutorial - I tried to work with some METS records within jEdit though didn't really get much done.
- Compiled a list of questions to review with Tod concerning jEdit--scheduled a meeting time to discuss the questions
- Reviewed a few METS records and their matching documentation (provided by the digitization department)
Intro & Day 1--1/4/06
Intro:
2 Hours:
Day 1:
4 Hours:
2 Hours:
- Met and spoke with Tod Olson and Jane Ciacci about the particulars of the Practicum
- Brief tour of the library
- Dealt with the 'human resources' aspects of the Practicum
Day 1:
4 Hours:
- Met the digitization staff--a part of archives
- Recieved the digitization information for the documentation process
- Toured the library and departments I'll be working with and within
- Dealt with scheduling and paperwork
- Recieved an "assignment" to download and review jEdit
