The past several weeks have been a strange mix of crash course archaeology, traditional archival records hunting, digitization methodologies and metadata creation. I have been working with Dr. Bleed here at UNL to devise a tool which would allow him … Continue reading
My internship at MATRIX has been different than I had expected. One of the main jobs that I was supposed to be doing was to interview other archivists about how they handle digital video. I finished my interview script during … Continue reading
As an exploration in creating a limit case for computing equipment metadata generation, I have been documented Matt’s Apple IIe system to the fullest extent possible. The idea is to observe how much metadata can be reasonably gathered. From this … Continue reading
The CDRH is a flurry of activity today as the new Zeutschel scanner is being installed. Not wanting to get underfoot, I have hunkered down at a workstation to focus on my newest project. My work on French 17 is … Continue reading
Among other tasks I have been given, I recently had to find the locations of several people associated with the project on which I am working. Armed with only their names and the knowledge that somehow they their work related … Continue reading
Here’s an update on the flippy disk problem for this week. In retrospect, that the reed switch was operating correctly was obvious: since wiring to the photo sensor was cut and rerouted to the reed switch and the regular side … Continue reading
Today is the third day of work on my project. It’s been going very well. On the first day I sat down with Dave, one of the directors here (my supervisor is Neil, I believe, but he is away at … Continue reading
No, not “I love you.” The three words that set my heart a-flutter today? “file is valid“. This came after a crash course in TEI last Tuesday and almost exactly one week of encoding the 2009 edition of French 17. … Continue reading
Today is my first day here at MITH. I settled down at my summer place (sublet) over the weekend, and I really love the place I ended up. It’s a townhouse community in Laurel, MD. It’s a 20-min drive, but … Continue reading
My name is Stephen Pipkin and I am an intern this summer at the CDRH in Lincoln. I am in my final year of my MSIS Masters program at the University of Texas iSchool. This internship will be my final … Continue reading