Lauren and I have agreed to post alternating updates on our progress as we collaborate on our capstone project: ZineCat improvements, planning and documentation. Our goals, as recorded in our prospectuses are:
- extend the existing prototype with larger record sets and additional metadata fields (wild descriptors and uniform date and location)
- project management via one, unified GitHub repository (instead of this one, this one, and this one)
We each have to complete a 15-page white paper–or a shared one, that would presumably be closer to 30 pages, as well. Our advisors are Lisa Rhody (Jenna) and Maura Smale (Lauren), and we are both ecstatic to be working with both of them.
We will finish the project and white papers by December 22, 2019 and will graduate in February 2020. Between now and then, we have some shit to do. Here’s our in-progress, subject-to-change work plan:
(completed by end-of-day) 9/29
- This blog post by Jenna (✔)
- Work out Hack/Doc details (actually happening on a conference call 10/30)
- Review hack/doc philosophy and orientation
- Metadata cleaning/organizing of six library files and google drive organized with file naming conventions. Consider file contents, re: what we need to maintain.
- Analysis of zine libraries metadata schema
- Organize our GitHub repository
10/6
- Hack/Doc, which is a daylong discovery event, led by Charlotta Beavers of Openflows Community Technology Cooperative
- Blog post by Lauren
- Jenna order lunch for Hack/Doc
- Lauren invite everyone to the GitHub repo
- Jenna create accounts for everyone on ZineCat
10/13
- Revise this timeline, based on Hack/Doc outcomes
- Document the Hack/Doc
- Blog post by Jenna
- Jenna goes out of town for DLF
10/20
- Blog post by Lauren
- Research weekend! Read articles about
- other union catalog projects
- accessibility
- feminist archival practices
- decolonial digital humanities
10/27
- Blog post by Jenna
- Happy 103rd birthday, Lauren’s grandma! (Lauren out of town)
11/3
- Blog post by Lauren
11/17
- Blog post by Jenna
- Happy 80th birthday, Jenna’s dad! (Jenna out of town)
- Add/map complete holdings from the six libraries
11/24
- Blog post by Lauren
- TBD
12/1
- Blog post by Jenna
- TBD
12/8
- Blog post by Lauren
- Complete draft of timeline for the life of ZineCat after MADH
12/15
- Blog post by Jenna
- First draft of white paper due
12/22
- Blog post by Lauren
- White paper due to Lisa and Maura
1/10
Advisor approved capstone due to program director
1/28
Deposit capstone, which includes digital capture
- web crawl of site and recording of dynamic searches
- source code, data, and files dump
2/1/20
MADHs conferred!
