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Week 14: The End

  Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. If you did not read the first entry of mine, my name is Hiram Davila. I am a student at the University of Central Florida and will be graduating this semester. This blog post will be following my internship with RICHES Digital Archive throughout the Spring 2023 semester. Here is my long overdue final post for my RICHES internship. This was the last week for being an intern and being an undergraduate student. I will be graduating in early May with I am very excited for that. This whole experience was fantastic, and I truly believe that what made it so enjoyable was the people on the RICHES team. I want to thank Dr. Lester for giving me this opportunity, I was going into this semester without getting an internship and thought I would just have a regular school schedule before she offered me the position. I also want to thank Geoffrey Cravero. While I enjoyed working and talking with everyone on the team, I was really under Geoff most of th
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Week 13: Sickness and the Future

                  Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. If you did not read the first entry of mine, my name is Hiram Davila. I am a student at the University of Central Florida and will be graduating this semester. This blog post will be following my internship with RICHES Digital Archive throughout the Spring 2023 semester.                 This week has not been too kind to me. I have made less progress on my assignment than I would have liked. Since Monday I have been under the weather. From about Monday night till Thursday I did not feel good enough to leave my house or my bed for that matter. Luckily, woke up today (Friday) feeling a lot more refreshed and ready to catch up on lost time for both my work at RICHES and normal school work.             Since I do not have too much to report about for the work I did today, I want to talk about one effect RICHES has had on me that came up this week. I was approached by a family friend about working at a company that she was e
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Week 12: Organization

            Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. If you did not read the first entry of mine, my name is Hiram Davila. I am a student at the University of Central Florida and will be graduating this semester. This blog post will be following my internship with RICHES Digital Archive throughout the Spring 2023 semester.           This week I really delved deep into the assignment I was given. The assignment is just to organize all our oral histories in the database by ones where the interviewee is African America. Looking through all the videos and items on YouTube and the archive, there are over 200 items that I am looking through. Generally, not all of the items are oral histories, but it gives you an idea of how many things I am looking through.           There is really not too much to report in regard to my assignment. I have only encountered two problems thus far. I have been organizing my data into an Excel sheet. The first problem that I came to was aesthetics. Whil
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Week 11: History Harvest

       Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. If you did not read the first entry of mine, my name is Hiram Davila. I am a student at the University of Central Florida and will be graduating this semester. This blog post will be following my internship with RICHES Digital Archive throughout the Spring 2023 semester.      To begin this week, I began working on my assignment that I got last week. To recap, my assignment was to take all the oral histories that RICHES has conducted, filter out the ones where the interviewee was African American, when it took place, a link to said oral history, and a brief description. I have gone through about 30-45 of the videos now, but I have a lot more to go, but I am making steady progress. I made myself a table inside of Excel that helps expedite the process tremendously and helps me keep all the videos organized.        The “main event” for me this week regarding my internship was an event called “History Harvest”. As I stated last week, t
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Week 10: New Assignment and Events

     Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. If you did not read the first entry of mine, my name is Hiram Davila. I am a student at the University of Central Florida and will be graduating this semester. This blog post will be following my internship with RICHES Digital Archive throughout the Spring 2023 semester.    This week started with me meeting with the RICHES team and getting caught up on the happenings that I missed during Spring Break. More importantly, I learned, or rather got reassured, of two events that were happening this week.     The first of which happened on Wednesday. In Sanford, there was a stained-glass dedication ceremony that took place. I was there with Dr. Lester as well as a few of her Graduate students. We observed the ceremony, then explored the city a little bit. This tour included different eateries, an arcade, and the house Jackie Robinson stayed at while he was in Sanford.    The next event is happening tomorrow. It is in Zellwood and is called
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Week 9: End of Metadata and Beginning Spring Break

                 Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. If you did not read the first entry of mine, my name is Hiram Davila. I am a student at the University of Central Florida and will be graduating this semester. This blog post will be following my internship with RICHES Digital Archive throughout the Spring 2023 semester.               This week was the conclusion of my metadata assignment just in time for Spring Break. A bit of reflection on the metadata assignment, I was given a guide when I first got the assignment that helped me understand how to fill out the metadata easier. While I read most of the guide before beginning to write my data, there were some elements that I was still confused about. Lucky for me, the metadata expert at RICHES was a person that I have been in contact with the most since starting my internship. On Thursday, March 9 th , I was able to get a Zoom meeting with him and we were able to go over the different elements and he helped me with the r
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Week 8: Midterm Reflection

  Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. If you did not read the first entry of mine, my name is Hiram Davila. I am a student at the University of Central Florida and will be graduating this semester. This blog post will be following my internship with RICHES Digital Archive throughout the Spring 2023 semester.   Unlike other weeks, I do not have too much to report. I have been working on the same metadata I have been for the past 3 weeks or so, but I am coming to a conclusion with it. I have had great support from other RICHES members in figuring out metadata and its different elements plus the different elements that are specific to RICHES metadata. I am ready to finish this assignment up and move on to the next one.   I want to take this week to reflect on my experience of being in an internship in general as this is the midpoint of the semester. When I first began looking to start an internship last semester, I expected to be at a worksite and working X amount of hour
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