After pulling some long hours over the weekend I finished up my project early. Upon the initial submission for validation I had an error, I didn't provide a controlled access heading.
To determine the controlled access heading for the finding aid I consulted the LOC Authorities. In the authorities I found a heading that fit perfectly, Akron Art Museum--Exhibitions. It seems that no matter what avenue of library/information science a person is in the beast that is cataloging always makes an appearance.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
08.01.2010
I previewed the finding aid today since I'm almost done with it. It seems to have all the information a researcher would need. Some of the newer exhibitions I hyper linked directly to the Art Museums Website.
Hyperlinks will provide researchers with immediate information and provide traffic to the site, which in turn will result in more people enjoying the art museum.
Hyperlinks will provide researchers with immediate information and provide traffic to the site, which in turn will result in more people enjoying the art museum.
07.31.2010
The tech guy responded and said that copying the word document into notepad will remove any special characters. That's a good thing since I'm almost done.
Before working with the tool I wasn't sure where to include information about special formats that are within certain files. I now know that there is a genre/format section is DACS that is especially for this.
Before working with the tool I wasn't sure where to include information about special formats that are within certain files. I now know that there is a genre/format section is DACS that is especially for this.
Friday, July 30, 2010
07.30.2010
More uploading today. I have made it to 1988 so far, it's actully going faster than I had predicted.
I emailed the tech guy in charge of the EAD tool today. I noticed that there was a warning that copiyng and pasting from Microsoft Word can cause a validation error, that would be no good. So, what I've been doing is transferring the info into Notepad, removing any formating (spaces etc.), and then copying that into the finding aid tool.
The tech guy has yet to respond. But I hope my plan works.
I emailed the tech guy in charge of the EAD tool today. I noticed that there was a warning that copiyng and pasting from Microsoft Word can cause a validation error, that would be no good. So, what I've been doing is transferring the info into Notepad, removing any formating (spaces etc.), and then copying that into the finding aid tool.
The tech guy has yet to respond. But I hope my plan works.
07.29.2010
Continued to uploa the finding aid into the Ohio Link Database. I noticed that since there are exhibitions included on the finding aid that have no archival material records, this document is really more of an inventory.
Due to it being a inventory it is quite large, 36 pages. It may take longer than 50 hours to accomplish this goal. Therefore I am uploading the information with the highest research value first. The date spans with the highest values are the ones that are most recent; so I have started with 2010 and I am working backwards.
Due to it being a inventory it is quite large, 36 pages. It may take longer than 50 hours to accomplish this goal. Therefore I am uploading the information with the highest research value first. The date spans with the highest values are the ones that are most recent; so I have started with 2010 and I am working backwards.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
07.28.2010
Worked from 1130-630pm on the project, so I'm 13 hours in. Today I finally began working with the finding aid tool. It's easy to use. Using the tool has made me understand the DACS elements extensively, which is nice.
There is one problem, I'm not sure there is a way to load multiple items into a file at once with this tool. Unlike EAD with XML you can simply copy and paste as many lines as desired into the XML editor at the item level. I emailed my Ohio Link Finding Aid Creation Tool contact about this. Hopefully, I will have an answer by tomorrow. If not, this project has to be sized down to gain a good final product.
There is one problem, I'm not sure there is a way to load multiple items into a file at once with this tool. Unlike EAD with XML you can simply copy and paste as many lines as desired into the XML editor at the item level. I emailed my Ohio Link Finding Aid Creation Tool contact about this. Hopefully, I will have an answer by tomorrow. If not, this project has to be sized down to gain a good final product.
07.23.2010
Since I'm working from home I pick which days I'll be working. So, I may update on Weekends etc. Anyway today I worked from 10am-4pm as usual on a Friday.
The day consisted of transferring information from the exhibition list to the finding aid. This process is taking longer than I expected and is eating into the amount of time I will have to actually upload information into the EAD tool. I may have to talk to Ellie about only including exhibitions with actual records into the EAD finding aid.
The day consisted of transferring information from the exhibition list to the finding aid. This process is taking longer than I expected and is eating into the amount of time I will have to actually upload information into the EAD tool. I may have to talk to Ellie about only including exhibitions with actual records into the EAD finding aid.
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