For my second week at APS I worked 7 hours, which puts me behind on hours to make up, but I have my schedule planned for what days I need to work to finish my hours there. I started my day by reading the manuscript handling document to prepare for my task of formulating metadata. Sabrina went through a PowerPoint with me that reviewed the Rev City project, and how APS organizes their metadata.
I was assigned four documents to organize the metadata on to practice conducting this kind of work. We will be reviewing these this week. I was also shown how Rev City has made new fields for their metadata compared to APS’s online website, such as themes to organize the objects. I enjoyed this work and it was something that I found to be exciting. I saw a job posting today from the Philadelphia Museum of Art that directly references metadata, so I’m happy I’m learning this skill with APS. Sabrina also showed me how she had to adjust and create metadata for the objects in the Rev City project that came from APS, and other partnering organizations to fit how the Rev City project is set up.
This week we will be reviewing the metadata I made the week before, and I should be starting to work on transcriptions. This is something I have a lot of experience in, as I did this when I worked with Eastern State Penitentiary and as a research assistant for Dr. Dack at Rowan University. That being said, I enjoy transcription and I’m looking forward to doing that this week.