Daily Blog #16: Digitization of the Puffenberger Religious Artifacts Collection

At the beginning of today, Dr. Newton, Amal, and I met for our daily group discussion. Today our discussion focused mostly on the ten-page SCARP paper we have complete by the end of summer. Dr. Newton had created an outline, which featured the ACE model and the “Get to the Point” introduction theory. We discussed what theories we have applied and what methods we have used while working on this project thus far. Dr. Newton also mentioned that the conclusion of our paper should be a backward introduction, having everything we talked about in the introduction but also adding answers to the questions we had before the project commenced. After our discussion, we showed Dr. Newton the website trailer that Amal has been working on and discussed how we could make it even better!

During the late morning, I started filling in the Dublin Core and proofreading the rest of the artifacts that I had to finish for this week. By the end of the day, I completed eight artifacts and proof-read all of them for Amal. Then after a brief afternoon meeting with Dr. Newton, we collaboratively agreed that it would not be the best option to fill in the “language” section of Dublin Core for every artifact. This is because most of the artifacts do not have written language on them, so it would not be correct to assign a certain language for a religion that is found all over the world. So, I went back through the artifacts that I cataloged this past week and removed the language portion of Dublin Core from the artifacts that did not have any visible written language on them.

• Hannah Ciocco

-This photo is of a website that Tom Zaharevich, the Collection Development Librarian, recommended for aiding in the “Subject” section of Dublin Core.