Week 13 – Exhibit Editing

This week I completed my draft of the exhibit and was able to go over it with Mark. He said it was pretty much in line with what he was looking for but gave me a few suggestions for editing and wanted me to refine the way I sourced information at the bottom of each page.

I focused on this during editing, offering thumbnail images that would link readers to other documents where they could read more, in addition to providing a text link to the collection for each soldier. I also thought it would be great to add a “The rest of the story” section at the bottom of each page with a sentence narrating what happened after the focus of the exhibit. I did some general editing as well.

Author: Rachel Dark

Rachel Dark is a MLIS student at Kent State University and has been interning/volunteering at Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library since 2014, completing various odd jobs to gain as much experience as possible in the wonderful world of archives. She is currently an archival intern at WWPL for the Spring 2017 term. Her goal is to gain hands-on experience with digitization techniques and archival description by digitizing oversize photos and photo albums and creating a WWI-focused online exhibit that will highlight some of her exciting discoveries during this project.

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