Daily Blog #6: Digitization of the Puffenberger Religious Artifacts Collection

Today marked the second week of our SCARP project! Now that we figured out the logistics of the projects, we can focus on the details and goals. We started out the day with a discussion of our goals for the week and how we are going to accomplish them. After that I added another simple page to our Omeka site that will house the RSS feed linked to our blog posts off of this site. Then, I started to write a short biography introducing Dr. Puffenberger on his page in Omeka. After I finished writing the biography, I embed a YouTube video that was created a couple of years ago, which captured the movement of Dr. Puffenberger’s artifacts from his home to Elizabethtown College.

After lunch, Amal and I continued to work on the simple pages. We added small introductions about each of the contributors and plan on adding photos of everyone tomorrow. After Amal finished the “About” page, I spent a large chunk of tie trying to figure out how to embed a photo into a simple page. After about 30 tries with HTML different codes and scaling issues, I was able to embed a picture onto an Omeka simple page. Even though, figuring out how to embed a picture was very time consuming and difficult, it is a skill that I will never forget. After that, I fixed our header for our Omeka site and read some more about how to properly use the Dublin Core system for cataloging artifacts.

• Hannah Ciocco

• This is an earlier picture of Dr. Puffenberger utilizing his artifact collection when he still taught at Elizabethtown College as a religious studies professor.