This week I got to learn about all the aspects of digitizing an item using content.dm, right from entering the metadata to uploading them into the ‘California Water Documents’ collection. Different types of archival materials required different formatting. While entering the data, I had to read through some of the archival materials in order to find out subject terms, locations, dates, creators and recipients. One of the items that was interesting was the letter from the Los Angeles Weather Bureau Department to Willis S. Jones. It had the weather reports of various regions such as the Riverside County, San Diego County and Lake Elsinore enclosed with it. The reports played a key role in the distribution of water supply to the mentioned regions. This in turn affected the negotiation of the prices associated with these particular regions.