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.   This week was a step up from my last week and I am finally getting back into the swing of things. As I talked about last week, I fell behind a bit because I went on a trip and did not bring my laptop for 4 days. This week I was able to catch up on my reading and start writing metadata.   I have to admit, starting to write the metadata feels a bit overwhelming since I am looking at it for the first time. I have read the guide to help guide me through the process, but there are some obstacles I have ran into since starting. One of the problems I have, or rather concern, is that I am not putting enough information. For example, one of the elements to t...

                 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 an interesting one. This was the first week that I felt like I did not make much   progress in my internship work. I have still been reading my guide on metadata and how RICHES writes their metadata, but I was hoping that I would be writing metadata by now. I had a setback which was my own fault. I took a trip to visit some friends in Tallahassee and overlooked the fact that I needed my computer. So for about 4 days of the week I could not read and now I am playing catch-up so that I can actually begin working on m...

  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.   I do not have too much to report this week. Unlike the past weeks where I have worked on making and revising a transcript of an oral history, this week was much more about learning about my next task rather than doing it. As I talked about last week in my blog post, I will be working with metadata for my next task. Looking back at my old post, the Charizard example I gave only scratched the surface of what metadata actually is.   To walk you through my understanding of metadata thus far, I first learned what the standard for metadata is. Called the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), it consists of 15 core elements, known as the Simple Dublin ...

  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 spent most my time finishing up my revisions for the transcript I created. Like I have said in previous posts, the work that went into the transcript was a lot more than I was expecting, but I believe I did a great job. One thing that I noticed that I had to revise a lot was contractions. When we talk, we use a lot of contractions, but when writing we are told to keep contractions at a minimum. I think this was a reason that a lot of the times I would write the contractions out instead of writing exactly what the person said (for example, I wrote “must have” when the interviewee said “must’ve”). I am awaiting feedback on my final copy, but I know...