Bicentennial Exhibit Development Internship Week 3

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Bicentennial Exhibit Development project:

Since my last blog post, there has been little progress on the development of the Exhibit, however I know that we will be able to start working on the project soon since there should be a meeting between the graduate project supervisor and the stakeholders. Until then, we do not have any specific details to be able to begin the major work, so we are focusing on learning the context and background of this type of project and the kind of work that goes into something like this. To guide us through this, we have been assigned readings that inform how exhibits are created, what goes into the building of an exhibit, and what this kind of work entails in general. There are a few readings that we are assigned to get through, and it has been enjoyable to learn about this type of work, especially since it is something I hope to learn more and more about as this project progresses. 

On Wednesday (1/28), the Public History Central team gave us a tour of the CHDR space in Trevor Colbourn Hall on campus. CHDR stands for the Center of Humanities and Digital Research, and it houses all sorts of great resources for this kind of research. We were shown how to operate a large scanner for archiving and research purposes, and we were able to have a hands-on experience with the machine as well. The scanner was very large, about the size of a dining table, and we were tasked with scanning an old "Space-Age" recipe book on certain pages. This process was a great learning experience, since most of us had never worked with a scanner like this before. I have worked with small scanners in my job at the Altamonte Springs City Library, but these are made for patron use so they are fairly simple and small compared to the scanners we used yesterday. 

After trying out the large scanner, we did some metadata training on postcards that Sarah Boye brought in for us to practice with. We each chose a post card and worked to put metadata information about the post card. This consisted of who donated it and their information, the historical background of the item, identifying any people if applicable, the size of the item, the copyright of the item, etc. I have never done any metadata work previously, so this was a great learning experience as well! After getting our metadata information checked, we were taught how to scan the items in the same way that is done at the History Harvests that UCF participates in. This scanner was much smaller than the large scanner, and it was simple to use for the first time. 

Attached is an image of the large scanner that we learned how to use! 


As for the overall project, we will hopefully have more information regarding stakeholder vision soon, and I can share our progress next week. Until then, we will keep reading about exhibit creation and management! 

See you next week!


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