Meeting with both Zoe and Jack today and we looked at one another's revised budgets. One talking point was the color of the material that will used for the display cases, I wanted a red, but Zoe felt that would be too unpleasing. She preferred a dark material, like black, but the I told her the plaque would be black and it would go against the principles of my research. The "so-called" contrasting backgrounds. So we settled on Grey. I guess we will see how it looks, once it's up.
Feb 24 - Revised SMART goal - 3hrs
I have decided to redo my SMART goal to make it something more realistic since my other one relied on too many outside forces. So the hard drives are within, for the most part, completely within my control.
Specific.
Organize digital format files on hard drive. This includes the combination of the Buffalo hard drive and the Lacie hard drive files. In order to have digital files for the online archives.
Who: Myself and Carson.
What: I want to organize the files on the hard drives in order to make them more accessible for future users: archivist, scholars, as well as incorporating them to the digital realm via the internet.
Where: The drives can be organized anywhere the hard drives are located. Home, school, etc.
When: check out Time-Bound below
Which: Need a computer. If a laptop is used it would be recommended that I be close to power source to prevent the computer from shutting down and possibly losing information.
Why: Purpose for this is to market the historical aspects of Visions Film Festival & Conference as well as preserving digital content.
Measurable.
Progress can be determined by inspecting the hard drive files. By seeing how the files are organized on the hard drive. So the completion ratio of Visions1,2,3,4,5 etc
Attainable
Yes very likely.
Realistic.
A low goal that is easy to attain would be getting all of the Visions files. A higher goal will be organizing them not only by year, but by different sections (marketing material, selections, awards, conference, juries (our historical info) files, and figure out stats as well). All things that can contribute to the online archive.
Time-Bound
Feb 16 - Combines drives
Feb 23 - Organize Visions1
Feb 27 - Give Visions1 files to Carson
Mar 5 - Organize Visions2
Mar 19 - Give Visions2 files to Carson
Mar 22 - Organize Visions3
Mar 26 - Give Visions3 files to Carson
Apr 5 - Organize Visions4
Apr 9 - Give Visions4 files to Carson
Apr 16 - Organize Visions5
Apr 20 - Give Visions5 files to Carson
Apr 24- Begin Organizing Visions6
Apr 30 - Begin Manual for Archivist, specifically a chapter: Digital Content Preservation - This will be about organization strategies using Visions6 files as the example on how to best and efficiently preserve digital material.
Feb 25 - Organized Visions 2011 Files - 2hrs
As the title for today suggest I completed merging the 2011 files from both hard drives and organized them to the best of my ability. I may need input from people based on what I have completed to see if my structure makes sense. I have been looking at these files for so long that I have probably created a bias.
Feb 27 - Departmental Meeting - 1hr
Had to meet with Zoe today, at a later time due to time conflicts with another project. I showed her the hard drive progress so far, and she seemed to be like what she saw. Not a hundred percent that she did like it, but there is a good probability that she likes what I have accomplished so far. If not, then I will be at her mercy.
Reflections
I have come to realize, that much like everything in life, you can't win every battle. This job of the archivist is quite depressing. It is like working within a vacuum, disconnected from the outside world, unsure of where you belong; this is because you are not quite in the marketing department and also because the job has never existed. Perhaps it has, but it doesn't seem like if they did it effectively. I am a pioneer in many way, because I must venture into the unknown and figure out how to best survive. My hope is that future archivists look at theses files and see, not the vast amount of data, but rather what could be accomplished with them. What I am trying to say is that these files have more purpose than just to be organized. They are designed to be used and learned from, there are a lot of mistakes from previous visions and the only way to learn from them is to see what was attempted in the past. Case and point, the link below is a website to a filmmaker who had a film in visions. Nowhere on their site does it mention Visions Film Festival & Conference.
Source:
http://www.buffalopicturehouse.com/work
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