{"id":57,"date":"2018-02-01T17:46:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T21:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T17:51:32","slug":"week-2-ambuehl-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/01\/week-2-ambuehl-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2: Ambuehl Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While I had started a spreadsheet for the scans I was working on when I first started the project, in talking with Mark, I learned he had different parameters in mind than what I had put in the spreadsheet. Fortunately, most of the information carried over, so I was able to do a fair bit of copy-and-paste. I also generated subject headings and tags for each item.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In attaching metadata to the photos, I\u2019m using a combination of LCSH and user-generated tags from the WWPL flickr page<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All items have the LCSH for WWI (World War, 1914-1918). I also tagged the pages of the photo album and photos from the album with the LCSH Photograph albums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, I began transcribing some of the documents in the collection. Transcribing really isn\u2019t my favorite thing to do, but this is a good exercise in an area I don\u2019t have much experience in and I can use the opportunity to brush up on my skills. It\u2019s also a great way to make the digital images more accessible to users on a variety of levels. Since these PDFs aren\u2019t searchable, adding transcriptions gives the images a better chance of turning up on search results. They will also help users who have more trouble than I do reading 100 year-old handwriting and typewritten pages; users who require sight reading technology will also be able to access the text, which wouldn\u2019t be possible if the PDFs were uploaded without transcriptions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interns.presidentwilson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}