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Met with Al Turgeon and Mike Kessler re: academic content in Project Catalog. Here are a few follow-up notes: One way to approach organizing information online has been: 1) determine which keywords will be used (controlled vocabulary) 2) arrange them … Continue reading →

Scanning, PhotoShop, slide scanning, ftp, etc. 2 hour workshop for Art faculty. Follow-up next week for 3 more plus additional questions. (Lynda McIntyre)

Meeting re: TabletPC grant extension. Jeff Frolik is submitting an extension to the HP TabletPC grant to receive more tablets for 2005-2006. Met to discuss grant, wrote portion for humanities computing use, asked for tablets for cs005 if awarded. (See … Continue reading →

I’ve created a new collection on our dSpace server in the “Collections for Testing” area titled “Vermont Letters. (http://badger.uvm.edu/dspace/handle/2051/3969) The collection contains images and may contain transcriptions of letters to and from Vermonters in the antebellum period (1849-1860). The letters … Continue reading →

Set up class web pages for 296 A & E as follows: HST 296A: Community in Early America http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/personal/portfolio/296a-index.html HST 296E: Rural Life in the United States http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/personal/portfolio/296e-index.html

Plans for 2005 include: 1. “Support for UVM Digital Collection Projects” Planning UVMDC will continue to explore digital collection applications. This year the focus will also be on how to grow and support initiatives. UVM has received an earmark funds … Continue reading →

HST1112 collection is under way at http://www.uvm.edu/dspace. After an initial tussle with various groups and permissions it’s ready to go. Two copies of each image will be loaded: an archival tiff and a smaller jpeg for use in PP, etc. … Continue reading →

final paper paper is up on site http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/personal/portfolio/287-index.html It ended up being more like an introduction to the paper I thought I was going to write. That is, it was rather too chronological and overview-like. It could become a good … Continue reading →

::: List of Collections with Descriptions ::: The digital collections at the U of Washington Libraries include several hundred carte de visite of American mid-19th actors as well as fashion plates from the entire century. The entrance page is also … Continue reading →

So sometimes you just have to have fun: http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/movies/stepbystep/