We started off the day with a visit from the donor of the collection, Dr. William Puffenberger! Dr. Puffenberger dropped by this morning during our daily goals discussion. We showed him the Omeka and all of the progress that we …
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Today, Dr. Puffenberger came by to see the progress of the project. He was very impressed by the work we have been doing and has agreed to do interviews with us as soon as next week. He was excited about …
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I have really enjoyed being able to handle and work with all of the artifacts these past two days. Having a goal of cataloging 25 artifacts by the end of the week is a daunting goal, but because I enjoy …
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Today was a lot like yesterday! The goal for this week continues to be populating the website with as much content as possible. As I was going through many of my descriptions for the artifacts I have already put in, …
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After a long weekend, we were able to keep the same productive pace as last week. After our team meeting this morning, we decided that my goal for the week was to catalog 25 artifacts. With only four work days …
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Today was a lot of research. A lot. This week’s goal is to input the rest of the artifacts (25 to be exact) which is a big jump from the 5 we had to do last week. Even though it …
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In recognition of the holiday weekend, today we had a half-day, but still managed to learn some new things and get a decent amount done. I came in an hour early today to clean up the website and proof-read all …
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Today, we finished up all the weekly goals. One of the things the morning consisted of was trying to figure out the carousel feature to appear on the “featured item” window on the homepage. We are still trying to figure …
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Hello! We started off our day a little bit earlier with detailed team meeting. The meeting was very helpful and Dr. Newton shared his thoughts on the website’s direction. After the meeting I edited the “About”, “Dr. Puffenberger”, and “Contributors” …
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Today I completed the research on the Buddhist artifacts and its corresponding links to outside sources. I Am happy with the amount of information that is on each artifact but will like to go back to those artifacts later on …
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