I’ve begun metadata on the Chaffey Letters, Book I! I’ve never been into video games much but I assume that the feeling of passing a level you tried over and over to pass is the same feeling I’ve felt these past two days. I suppose I should clarify what level one and two were, as well.
Level One: Scanning. The Chaffey Letters (Book I and II) took an extremely long time to scan. Each book had such a large number of extremely thin and fragile paper.
Level Two: Breaking up the letters. Along with the Chaffey Letters, Ontario City Library provided us with transcripts for each letter. The past few weeks I have been breaking apart the letters, from one large pdf with all the letters into individual pdfs for each letter (as well as individual pdfs for each transcript).
Level Three: METADATA! Now that the sources are scanned and separated I have begun metadata so the hundreds of Chaffey Letters we have can go live (that’s how you win this video game, in case you were wondering). With the letters we have to attach their transcripts and process them as ‘compound objects,’ so the letters will be able to be viewed on the Claremont Colleges Digital Library with the transcripts.
Here’s to many more hours on metadata!
till next time,
Alfonso