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1st day at work. Arrive 9 AM. Shoiwn around the storage rooms. Shown the national projects webpoage. Had break. Read email and looked at more websites. Lopoked up Texas websites. Shown around by Health and Safety officer, shoiwn fire exits and ewxtinguishers. Had luinch. Looked at web some more. Had proiject exzplained. Had tea. Renamed some files and uploaded to database. Talked about restaurants. Went home 4:45.
All very civilized.
Project basics: national cultural endeaavor: http://www.enrichuk.com funded by the lottery. Digital Midlands is the section that houses Secret Shropshire and similar projects from the area. Will have 15-20,000 objects in a searchable database when done. Have about 14K now. Haven't put online yet because were debating CMS. Decided to go with Recall, which he thinks is a propietary CMS done by thre Staffordshire project guy. Problem with that: onlky 3 sizes images possible: 110 px wide , 500 px wide, 1500 px wide. Also not good with really innovative interactive web stuff: more suited for library-style lookup and display of data.
Whenever they get new software, after a week or so of fooling with it, write a guide to the stuff they use it for so it will be there as a reference.
3 computers - 2 for scannioing & manipulating, 1 for holding the info. That oine's got 200 gig HD. Use Epsom flatbeed scanner with fim attachments to scan slides & modern photos. Use big scanner that looks like copystand - Solar brand - to scan books, large objects, 3D objects, and old documents. Conservator made policy of not using flatbed scanner to scan photos pre-20th C because of bright light. Oldest scanned objecx a seal and document from 1344.
Software - Silversomething, a German scanning software that is bundled with the scanner. Photoshop 7 is container, and used to repair some damage for Web display. Archival versions - master copies - not touched or manipulated in any way. Imageready actrion - called droplet - used to create 3 versions for database.
Documents and images from Shropshire Records Centre have archival version kept. Ones from local people are only scanned to 1500 px versiona. Cd burned and given to donors, along with contact sheet so they can help caption.
preservation: conservator's policy to convert all scanned files to microfilm because tech is changing too fast. Microfilm about as permanent as they can reasonably get.
After item scanned (or digital photo taken, as in some natural history items) person who did it puts it into a shared network folder called Processing. Message sent to Edwin via Msn Messengewr to tell him theyjre there. edwin changes file name to the next in a consecutive order - record of next number to use and a runniong total kept on a whjiteboard. Images oriented correctly then run through droplet in Imageready to create versions which have same file name plus a a, b, or c at the end. master copies saved as tiff. Other versions saved as jpg.
Copies saved to folders depending on category, then put into database for that category, then message sent to original person, who then puts caption and other info into db.
When it comes time to put onlinme, will sned through data cleaning - will have people check as many as possible and write apps that will check that all fields that should hjave full stops have full stops and other hings like that. They're sending CDDs to Staffordshire guy to put together and upload into final db.
Website created in Dreamweaver. Uses ASP. Recall uses Access for DBMS. Website has some 'LEARNING Zones' with text and images, and will hjave searchable db with images and captions soon. Originally hjad target goal of 30K images, written by grantwriters who didn't realize impossibility. They could get 30K items but not with caption and images useless withouit context. So goal was dropped to 15-20K.
1st day at work. Arrive 9 AM. Shoiwn around the storage rooms. Shown the national projects webpoage. Had break. Read email and looked at more websites. Lopoked up Texas websites. Shown around by Health and Safety officer, shoiwn fire exits and ewxtinguishers. Had luinch. Looked at web some more. Had proiject exzplained. Had tea. Renamed some files and uploaded to database. Talked about restaurants. Went home 4:45.
All very civilized.
Project basics: national cultural endeaavor: http://www.enrichuk.com funded by the lottery. Digital Midlands is the section that houses Secret Shropshire and similar projects from the area. Will have 15-20,000 objects in a searchable database when done. Have about 14K now. Haven't put online yet because were debating CMS. Decided to go with Recall, which he thinks is a propietary CMS done by thre Staffordshire project guy. Problem with that: onlky 3 sizes images possible: 110 px wide , 500 px wide, 1500 px wide. Also not good with really innovative interactive web stuff: more suited for library-style lookup and display of data.
Whenever they get new software, after a week or so of fooling with it, write a guide to the stuff they use it for so it will be there as a reference.
3 computers - 2 for scannioing & manipulating, 1 for holding the info. That oine's got 200 gig HD. Use Epsom flatbeed scanner with fim attachments to scan slides & modern photos. Use big scanner that looks like copystand - Solar brand - to scan books, large objects, 3D objects, and old documents. Conservator made policy of not using flatbed scanner to scan photos pre-20th C because of bright light. Oldest scanned objecx a seal and document from 1344.
Software - Silversomething, a German scanning software that is bundled with the scanner. Photoshop 7 is container, and used to repair some damage for Web display. Archival versions - master copies - not touched or manipulated in any way. Imageready actrion - called droplet - used to create 3 versions for database.
Documents and images from Shropshire Records Centre have archival version kept. Ones from local people are only scanned to 1500 px versiona. Cd burned and given to donors, along with contact sheet so they can help caption.
preservation: conservator's policy to convert all scanned files to microfilm because tech is changing too fast. Microfilm about as permanent as they can reasonably get.
After item scanned (or digital photo taken, as in some natural history items) person who did it puts it into a shared network folder called Processing. Message sent to Edwin via Msn Messengewr to tell him theyjre there. edwin changes file name to the next in a consecutive order - record of next number to use and a runniong total kept on a whjiteboard. Images oriented correctly then run through droplet in Imageready to create versions which have same file name plus a a, b, or c at the end. master copies saved as tiff. Other versions saved as jpg.
Copies saved to folders depending on category, then put into database for that category, then message sent to original person, who then puts caption and other info into db.
When it comes time to put onlinme, will sned through data cleaning - will have people check as many as possible and write apps that will check that all fields that should hjave full stops have full stops and other hings like that. They're sending CDDs to Staffordshire guy to put together and upload into final db.
Website created in Dreamweaver. Uses ASP. Recall uses Access for DBMS. Website has some 'LEARNING Zones' with text and images, and will hjave searchable db with images and captions soon. Originally hjad target goal of 30K images, written by grantwriters who didn't realize impossibility. They could get 30K items but not with caption and images useless withouit context. So goal was dropped to 15-20K.