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.

Week 5 – Ochs Collection

This week I completed the metadata spreadsheet for the Ochs Collection. Drawing from my prior knowledge of the collection, along with the donor file for Shelby Ochs Owen, I also created a finding aid and box list for the collection. This will help researchers learn more about the collection and identify what folders they may want to look at. The finding aid will also become part of the collection description in the Omeka elibrary.

Next week, I should begin work on scanning the documents so they can be uploaded online. As I’m now almost halfway through my internship, I would also like to begin fleshing out my plan for the online exhibit I will create for my final project.

Week 4 – Ochs Collection

This week I finished filing all the documents from the Ochs scrapbook and began adding metadata for each item in a .csv spreadsheet. The parameters are the same ones I worked with for the Ambuehl collection, so the process has been fairly straightforward so far. Continue reading “Week 4 – Ochs Collection”

Week 3 – Ochs Collection

I completed a few more transcriptions for the Ambuehl Collection, and then Mark instructed me on how to upload the collection and metadata to Omeka using a .csv file. All of this is new to me, as I haven’t worked with .csv files before. Unfortunately, not all of the files transferred. Continue reading “Week 3 – Ochs Collection”

Week 2: Ambuehl Collection

In addition to completing the collection description on Omeka, I spent this week compiling a spreadsheet of metadata for the digitized items in the Ambuehl collection. Continue reading “Week 2: Ambuehl Collection”

Week 1: Ambuehl Collection

This week I began my internship with a project I’d already begun some time ago while volunteering at WWPL: the John P. Ambuehl Collection. Easily one of my favorite collections I’ve worked on so far, the collection documents the military service and death of John P. Ambuehl, a private from Borup, Minnesota, who served as a machine gunner in France during WWI and was killed in action in October 1918. Continue reading “Week 1: Ambuehl Collection”