2020-04-13 Meeting notes

Date

13 Apr 2020

Participants

• Rachel Appel (Unlicensed)

• Rebecca Lloyd

• Jasmine Clark

• Josue L Hurtado

• Stefanie Ramsay (Unlicensed)

Notes

• Workshop idea:

  • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zLOTxijUgQhPy_xxKtuWBTpwdoDoRxoxNyXvMyHAFt8/edit?usp=sharing

• Breakdown:

  • Research process Rebecca Lloyd

  • Looking at photographing policies and going through a few examples Rebecca Lloyd

  • Handling the materials appropriately Josue L Hurtado

  • Reviewing/interpreting the finding aid in order to set up realistic expectations Josue L Hurtado

  • Taking good photographs: tools (with policies--Josue will look into), camera use Stefanie Ramsay (Unlicensed)

  • Metadata: OCR with Adobe, organizing a spreadsheet, application examples: Tropy (https://tropy.org/), Lightroom, Bridge, providing a template/toolkit ready to use etc. Jasmine Clark

• Researcher to give their process: Historical Methods Courses

• Attendees to share process?

• Time:

• Audience: graduate students, not necessarily just history

Action items

Decisions