FFSS Internship (Fall) Week 11

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project:

This week I have been focusing on editing more of the student submissions for the Colmar Pocket Primary Source Packets. This process has consisted mostly of me standardizing the packets to look uniform and professional, which includes adding borders, resizing images to fit the page as large as possible, editing and polishing descriptions of the sources, and checking to make sure the formatting is correct. I also focus on making sure the citations are correctly formatted, the links to the sources are the correct links, and that the student included all of the possible sources for the soldier they researched. 

I am supposed to have all ten of my assigned packets completed soon, because we will continue to work on and eventually send them to the Colmar Pocket Museum in France for review and use. However, I have been moving much slower than I would have hoped to, because the source packets from the student submissions vary in length, which requires some of them to have more work than others. This in turn requires more hours per packet, which slows down the whole process. For instance, this week specifically I was only able to get through one packet because it needed formatting, description edits, citation edits, and I had to look for more sources because of the information provided in some of them (i.e. if the soldier has a wife that potentially has sources to include). In all, this week was not as productive as previous weeks. The previous week's work preparing for the Florida Historical Society Conference also slowed down my usual tasks as well. Nevertheless, I will continue working on the packets (and hopefully have time left over to work on the biography I have been assigned to edit), so that we can progress with this part of the work! The biography I am tasked to edit needs to be (somewhat) ready for the graduate student to review within the next month, meaning the end of the semester, because he will have to check all of the military service section for accuracy before it can be moved through to another person to finalize. I will be working to make this happen as well. 

I am still absolutely enjoying every step of the way in this internship, and I look forward to our meeting on Wednesday to discuss our progress and future work for the rest of the semester. 

See you next week!

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