I have been enjoying seeing the collection come together digitally. I like that we are getting the whole experience, from handling the materials from the folders at VOICES, to sorting through boxes of mail art to eventually see it come together in a digital collection. I am looking forward to going in to class today to add metadata to our mail art collection. I am also going to be working on an image-editing tutorial by using Jing. I haven’t used it in a while. I hope that it is as user-friendly as I remember!
It was great to conference with the Bailey and Anne last week. I was definitely impressed with the way that they have forged their own path in the world of digital archiving. They saw a need for material to be digitized, developed their own language, and created a user-friendly space to access material from the Kitchen Sisters. It got me thinking about how digital archiving seems to find you sometimes… Like how Mary at VOICES had no real background, just an idea that she made work… Neat.
See you all in class today. Sorry I forgot to post here last week. I’ll make up for it later this week. I had a major issue with my 580 project that kind of got in the way of my sanity and it slipped my mind!
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