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
Someone in Archives should double check the files for NB08 and NB35. Both of these folders of images seem out of order; I don't know if the microfilm is actually out-of-order itself, or if our vendor misnumbered the scanned images.
* 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.