Friday, July 25, 2025

UCF Summer Internship Week #11

        Hello! Welcome back to my weekly summer internship blog as I continue my work with UCF’s CHDR and the New Smyrna Beach Museum of History (NSB MoH). As the summer semester ends, the other interns and I are still working on digitizing bound copies of NSB’s historic Pelican newspaper from the 1950s and 1960s. Although we often work at different times in the office, this past week, Dylan, Daniel, and I have all been there at the same time, and it’s been working well. With several of us in the office together, I’ve been able to focus on metadata entry while Dylan or Daniel process and upload new scans of the Pelican. Since Daniel usually comes in early in the morning, he’s been able to complete many scans before Dylan arrives to crop and upload them. Dividing the work this way lets us scan more pages each day without anyone staying in the office longer than needed. For me, focusing on metadata entry has been especially helpful this past week because I’ve been dealing with a bad sore throat and cough. With Daniel handling scanning and Dylan cropping and uploading, I can concentrate on catching up with metadata. This setup is especially convenient because I don’t have to worry about a slow upload speed keeping me in the office longer than I should be. Additionally, Daniel recently discovered a shortcut in Teams that allows us to see JPEG previews of each scan while entering metadata, without opening each file in a separate window and reloading the page. Although it seems like a small change, being able to view scans without reloading greatly speeds up the process and has allowed me to enter more data this past week than ever before. Another good update is that, with everyone in the office together, Daniel had extra time to look for the July 31, 1891, copy of The New Smyrna Breeze, and he finally found it! Dylan calls it Daniel’s “white whale,” since he’s been wanting to rescan it for over a month after realizing he hadn’t centered it properly, causing some text to be cut off. In the past, he couldn’t find it in the box of unbound papers from the NSB MoH, but now it’s been scanned and uploaded to the right folder. Besides working in person with the other interns last week, the CHDR offices also underwent some remodeling, with new chairs and tables brought in and the room rearranged.

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UCF Summer Internship Week #11

          Hello! Welcome back to my weekly summer internship blog as I continue my work with UCF’s CHDR and the New Smyrna Beach Museum of H...