Metadata, cataloging, scanning...
Monday, Sept. 18
On Monday I met with Andrew and Cassandra and Mark about metadata options and how to get from here to there. I finally feel like I have somewhat of a better idea of what needs to happen next. I went ahead and created a list of Balmer & Weber records that have URLs and it came out to about 218 records (fewer than I expected, but that might turn out to be a good thing!). Cassandra will run it through MARCEdit and turn it into MARCXML, and then I will do some comparisons and see how things match up with DLXS's BibClass metadata (which appears to be very minimal) and with DC that is required for OAI harvesting. I just realized I never did hear back from Stephen Davison whether or not they'd be willing to harvest such a small number of records. If not, at least things will be set in motion for the future and I will have learned a heckuvalot in the process!
I also met with Mark to go over some cataloging questions. There are some things I need to look up and fix, especially with the "Taming of the Shrew" pieces.
I also met with Brad to go over scanning standards and procedures. We agreed that if it doesn't take too much more time to go with 300dpi, we might as well. I can't figure out, though, how to have the default resolution settings at 300dpi - the way it is now you have to manually change it every time you scan a page (it won't even remember your manual setting from one scan to the next) - major pain! I'm hoping Brad can find the user guide for the scanner, but I'm not sure even that will help. I went all through the Photoshop Help to find an answer but found nothing. As far as I can tell, it has to be changed manually. I thought I had found a way around it (using the other 'Import' option, which DID for some reason have 300dpi as the default), but it automatically saved the file as a bitmap file that looked absolutely terrible.
Hours today (well, Monday): 4 (2:30-6:30pm)
Hours this week: 4
Total hours completed: 74.5
On Monday I met with Andrew and Cassandra and Mark about metadata options and how to get from here to there. I finally feel like I have somewhat of a better idea of what needs to happen next. I went ahead and created a list of Balmer & Weber records that have URLs and it came out to about 218 records (fewer than I expected, but that might turn out to be a good thing!). Cassandra will run it through MARCEdit and turn it into MARCXML, and then I will do some comparisons and see how things match up with DLXS's BibClass metadata (which appears to be very minimal) and with DC that is required for OAI harvesting. I just realized I never did hear back from Stephen Davison whether or not they'd be willing to harvest such a small number of records. If not, at least things will be set in motion for the future and I will have learned a heckuvalot in the process!
I also met with Mark to go over some cataloging questions. There are some things I need to look up and fix, especially with the "Taming of the Shrew" pieces.
I also met with Brad to go over scanning standards and procedures. We agreed that if it doesn't take too much more time to go with 300dpi, we might as well. I can't figure out, though, how to have the default resolution settings at 300dpi - the way it is now you have to manually change it every time you scan a page (it won't even remember your manual setting from one scan to the next) - major pain! I'm hoping Brad can find the user guide for the scanner, but I'm not sure even that will help. I went all through the Photoshop Help to find an answer but found nothing. As far as I can tell, it has to be changed manually. I thought I had found a way around it (using the other 'Import' option, which DID for some reason have 300dpi as the default), but it automatically saved the file as a bitmap file that looked absolutely terrible.
Hours today (well, Monday): 4 (2:30-6:30pm)
Hours this week: 4
Total hours completed: 74.5
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