Spring 2023: RICHES Internship

  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.   Last weeks blog post I mentioned that I was working on a transcript, and this week was no different. This week I had finished up the “rough” draft of my transcription, which is weird to say. When I thought of transcriptions before working on the one I am working on now, I did not think that they were a lengthy process to make. Sure, it was a tedious and long task, but not something too difficult. But I was wrong. While I don’t think transcribing is super difficult, it has hidden difficulties that you do not realize until you are actually writing one. For instance, knowing what punctuation to use at certain times has been a big problem for me. If someone is talking ab

                      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.                   Last week I did not do anything in relation to my internship. This was the first week where I did some work and met some people who are a part of the team at RICHES. On Tuesday I had my first meeting. I met with Dr. Lester, who I had spoken to in the past, and Geoffrey Cravero, who is one of the digital archivists with RICHES who works a lot with the Metadata of the archive. The meeting was an introduction to a lot of different things, including what RICHES is about, the ongoing projects that RICHES is a part of some collaboration efforts with other groups, and upcoming events. During this meeting I was also invited be a part of th

                      Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my last semester at UCF, and I am extremely excited to be finishing up my degree. I will be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in History and a minor in Latin American Studies. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the RICHES Digital Archive’s team throughout this spring semester.                 To give a little bit more information about myself, I actually began my college career wanting to become a lawyer. I had graduated high school a year early and was looking to be a part of the 3+3 program. This was a program where a student could get their bachelor’s and law degree in 6 years. About halfway through my first year, however, I realized that I was not passionate enough for a career in law. On the flipside, I have had a passion for history since I was in 6 th grade. I decided to fully switch into just getting a history after starting my second semester, which was Spring 2020, the same se