Edgerton Lab Notebooks - Phase 1

Phase 1 - Microfilm Scanning

Updates

I received the corrected files from the vendor.  Took another 30 minutes or so to double check them and transfer them to the hard drive.  Beverly will pick up the hard drive so that Tim/Alex can put the files on the R Drive as a backup.  Then the hard drive will go to Archives.

Ann Marie, Sept 8

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I spent an hour doing the following:
* unpacking microfilms and hard drive
* visually inspecting each microfilm reel (opening box and sliding reel out)
* spot checking files on hard drive (confirming dates on folders--12 had errors that I corrected; spot checking images at beginning and end of folder, often in the middle too)
* updating wiki

Problems were noted with the ordering of the image files in two of the notebooks.  I checked the microfilm and confirmed that the films have the pages in order.  I will contact the vendor about having the image files renamed so that they are in order.
* NB08 (Roll 2): The notebook appears to start with image 181.tif or 182.tif, then continues to the end of the folder, and then restarts with 001.tif and ends at 180.tif.
* NB35 (Roll 12): The notebook appears to start with image 067.tif, goes to the end of the folder, continues with 001.tif, and ends at 066.tif.

Ann Marie, September 2

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The microfilms were shipped to Crowley via FedEx (overnight) on August 8.

On 8/19 Keith from Crowley called to say they had finished scanning the microfilm.  He had a question about the file names: Archives requested a file naming scheme that included the notebook number, but not all of the notebooks have numbers on their target sheets.  After looking into it, Tom Rosko decided that the unnumbered notebooks should be called AA, BB, CC, etc.

Ann Marie, August 26

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Please see the attachments for the Statement(s) of Work that we sent to Crowley.

July 22, 2008--- 

The Edgerton Center (at MIT) is planning a website of Edgerton's work. The Center would like to include scanned images of the Edgerton notebooks held by the Institute Archives in microfilm format. Archives is waiting to hear from a contractor about the price of scanning the microfilm. Liz said that the scanned images will represent artifacts that no longer exist since the photographs were removed from the original notebooks after they were microfilmed. Liz expressed concern that we might lose track of miscellaneous but relevant information like this if we don't document it. There followed some discussion about how to address this problem. Minutes of the various Dome project subgroups is seen as one way to keep track of special considerations that are not addressed on the project forms. In addition, Beverly will identify a place on the DSG wiki where staff members may post special considerations or issues about various projects.