UCF Howard Middle School Internship

 This week was spent working on scanning the 1947-1950 scrapbook, the news papers and other lose items that were found inside the scrapbook. Within this scrapbook were several school news papers from 1947 and 1948. There was also a school directory, this lists the names and addresses of the school staff and teachers, but also the students from I think it was 1947. This along with some small books and other items that open will have to be scanned next week using the V-cradle, as it’s next to impossible to get these items to stay open to get a picture of them. This scrapbook contained a lot more personal items than the others had, tickets to school events, photos of groups of friends with names, captions under several images. I realized after we were finished scanning that this is likely a personal scrap book of Patrica Hudson and her high school years, it covers all of what would be someone’s high school year only extending to “part of” 1950. This then brings another questi...

  This week was used to both redo the banners (yet again) and preview the other materials that were borrowed from Howard before the school all but shut down for construction over the summer. I met with Mike Shier from the CHDR and went over how to manually do the Photoshop combining of banners, the first thing that was apparently is that the algorithm failed to produce a combined images likely because the images couldn’t be aligned i.e manually moving the   images until things lined up still resulted in another part of the image not lining up.   Mike then suggested redoing the images so that there are four takes of the banner instead of the 16 or so that we redid last week, this gives less points of potential failure; after all redoing four images is far easier than redoing 16. However this may come at a slight cost, that being the DPI; the capture one scanner at full height can’t fails to focus when trying a DPI at the 600 minimum that Dublin core wants for the TIFF fi...