This week, I am continuing to input metadata on my group’s AirTable spreadsheet. I have detailed 80 records so far, with 105 more to go before April 12th. Creating an inventory of the items on the LCHP Omeka website is the first step for our project plan. After this, we will create a contributor guide and potentially a printed user guide with the inventory as a base.
In order to finish my share of the metadata by next Thursday, I plan to input another 55 records by this Saturday and the final 50 next Tuesday. Last week we decided to remove a column in the spreadsheet that was not relevant for most items in the inventory (“Document Creation Location”), to italicize item descriptions we wrote ourselves (to differentiate them from original descriptions), and mark “None” when an item is not part of a collection (which is often).
Overall, this is a really boring part of the project. I can see the value in the work as the metadata on the Omeka website is so sparse and inconsistent. Still, the work is repetitive but thankfully does not take that long. I am looking forward to next Thursday so that we can work on other parts of the project.