Project update

This week was all about audio digitization. Jim came across another album, this one focusing on the first 100 years of UT football. On Monday I digitized 4 records, most of which spotlighted the University of Texas Longhorn Band.

Today I worked on about 3 records, all focusing on interviews with football coaches or reenactments of football games. I only have one album left, and that is the new one Jim found this week. I uploaded the files to my iSchool account as well as put them on a flash drive and added them to the computer I typically use so they could be added to the shared file and Jim can access them.

I'm hoping I can work on the films Jim has very soon. Quinn has run tests on the projectors for 16mm and 8mm and hopefully that means we're ever so close to actually viewing these home movies.

Final Project Update

For my final project I'm digitizing different mediums for the UT Heritage Society, which is also part of my Capstone project. For this class, I'm hoping to work more with audio and visual items, and this week we started looking at some of the records my supervisor has in his collections. He bought an Ion USB archival-turntable that we set up and experimented with today. It's fairly basic, and it's main purpose is to make mp3s out of the music you play.

It has a few setbacks: one being that you can't pause a recording should you need to flip the record and another being that it only works with 33.5 and 45 rpm and my supervisor, Jim, has one 78 rpm record from the 1920s. I hope we can find a way to get that record digitized since Jim hasn't heard it before. He said it's a Victrola record with the song "The Eyes of Texas" on it, which is pretty cool.

He also has at least 3 films, all different sizes, and no means of digitizing them. I'm hoping I can utilize some of the iSchool's equipment and allow the Heritage Society to finally see these films that they've had for years. The films are from 1948-1954, which is quite cool, but no one knows what's on them!

Up until now, I've scanned many pages from the alumni magazine as well as some pictures and slides. The digitization class has been very handy in helping me get the best of the photos (the Photoshop tutorial was extremely helpful), and I'm sure it will helpful with these new mediums I'm working with.