Blog Posts and Project Reports and Contributor Guides, Oh My! (Week 13)

This week I’ve been looking back at previous assignments, blog posts, and Google Doc notes to sum up the evolution of our project for the project report. My part of the contributor guide, how to process oral histories and other incoming files, is somewhat contingent on what Dr. Sies’ classes’ processes have been in the past, about which we will find out more through Suzanne and Jenny’s meeting with her on Thursday morning. In the meantime I’ve been continuing to gather best practices from the list of collection resource guides Jesse provided to us. I also cleaned up our Airtable People controlled vocabulary, which entailed separating records with multiple people into separate person entries, alphabetizing them, and deleting duplicates. We decided to move any specific people from the Subjects controlled vocabulary to the People, leaving only family names in the Subjects. We ended up with 120 Subject entries, 257 Places/Institutions, and 613 People for 746 items!

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