Week 2- Metadata and more information

 For some more context around this internship and the work that will be done one first has to know more about one of Orlando's oldest schools. Starting as Orlando High School in 1929 what is now Howard middle school was one of Orlando's white only school prior to integration, Howard was to become a mixed race school. This event is noted in one of the PTA scrap books with a simple "integration went well", from what I remember. These scrapbooks are more or less the backbone of this project with newspaper clippings, school or city based, images, school materials (think graduation programs) from various years starting more or less in the middle of the twentieth century. With some 40-50 years of content to go through this is not a single semester project, our job as interns is to scan in and create the metadata for each item in this collection in order for them to be easily findable through UCF's RICHES online database.  

But foremost a idea from the current principle of Howard middle school is making a timeline of sorts in one of the main hallways to showcase the almost century long history of the school. For a school that's almost a century old Howard has been through three name changes, yet most of the original building remains and is currently undergoing a multi-phase renovation project.With the school's centennial approaching in 2026 hopefully a significant amount of this project can be done so that the school can showcase it's long importance to the community of Orlando.  This week some of our time was spent meeting with a member of UCF's Riches team to discuss how the metadata for the project is done, in something that I felt I should have realized sooner having worked with it before while working on a project at UNF; using Dublin core the industry standard for metadata.  However currently RICHEs is having some issues having just transferred over to a new server they've noted that some things are still not working quite as intended and just need to be reorganized. Ideally next week or the week after at the latest we will be able to get training on the CHDR (Center for Digital Humanities and Research) scanner so that work can really get started on this project.

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