Herrera Metadata, Michelle Godfrey - Feb. 18, 2014

Today, I was able to work more on MSS160-b4-f01.  As I get closer to the end of the folder, I noticed that some of the titles of the items could be revised for the sake of consistency. I also noticed that I need to revise some of the authors of the documents. Those should be relatively quick and easy updates and after the last few new items are done, the whole folder will be completed...finally.

Shab, sheet music collection project, 2/13/2014

Today I managed to input 76 more cards of drawer 3 of the sheet music collection project, thanks mostly to the ease of the cards in this set (no foreign language cards or particularly unusual problems).  There were very few anomalies I can recall - one was some research involved into finding "Reader's Digest" in the publication field on one of the cards.  It took me some digging to realize that this wasn't just the name of the popular magazine, but that Reader's Digest also had a music publication division at some point (and still does?)  I am also once again finding some cards with information on both sides of the card, but since most of this info doesn't go along alphabetically in drawer 3's music spreadsheet, I've been told to ignore it.  Otherwise, it seemed like mostly everything was routine.  I am also at this point close to finishing inputting the cards from drawer 3 so if the cards are as routine as they were this week, next week (or the week after at the latest), I should be finished inputting all the cards from drawer 3 of this project. 

Herrera metadata project - Elaine Patton, 02/06/2014

Today I worked on MSS160-b3-f22 as my final project (!). It's been a great run! :)

I knew I'd seen HPLM_MSS160-b3-f22-16 (a program for an event "Honoring and Supporting" LBJ) before in another folder that I've done before, and hooray, I was able to easily locate the other version, HPLM_MSS160-b3-f13-02. The one from today is the better version, for what it's worth: the one from folder 13 has a blue tint. I've identified each as a Version Of the other in their records.

This folder actually contained several sets of "Version of" documents: same letter or note with different handwritten note added or addressed to different people, which made things very easy. There was a handful of Spanish-language documents, most of which could be described as "script for endorsement of Connally."

I noticed, as I was reviewing the records list, a few of the items had little padlock icons next to them that I haven't seen before... however, going back into the record and re-publishing got rid of them. Doesn't seem to matter, but just wanted to mention that.
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Nothing says "victory party!" (in the old-fashioned way...?) like a invitation written like an office memo.

Shab, sheet music collection project - 2/6/2014

Today I managed to catalog 54 more cards of drawer 3 of the sheet music collection project and am now past the final tab in the drawer (Denver, John).  Progress was significantly slowed by a large number of complex foreign language cards that required some usage of Google Translate and some general online research to make sure I was putting the information in the right fields (since I had to translate some words first or check to see if a word was a title, publisher, something else, needing capitalization or not, and other concerns of the like).  For the most part I am confident of the work I've done.  I do get occasionally confused still about random information showing up and where it belongs - one such card was referring to another card, for instance - but most of it is straightforward.  The other thing I've noticed is, especially with the foreign language music cards, there tend to be a large amount of spelling errors and discrepancies between cards with regard to the composers' names.  This has required a lot of research today.  Some simple Google searches usually clears up the problem but sometimes I wonder if the people who typed the cards looked at the names on the music at all because they're spelled very oddly on several different cards and the same mistakes are made over and over.  Otherwise, the only specific problem was the word "reduced" used in some of the music descriptions, which we're assuming is another way to say abridged?