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Reflection on the learning process, Spring, 2020
Reflection on the learning process, Spring, 2020
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Beginning in the spring, I used a tab in my google sheets document to keep a journal. I would summarize each day of work, list any problems I ran into, and keep track of what I planned to do next time. The process of journaling continued after I began to work remotely in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is an excerpt from February 25, 2020:
- "First task of the day - assess and provide feedback on the prototype developed as part of the NEH grant, […] I left feedback, mostly going over UX things, such as layperson definitions of jargon, explanations of what buttons do, and how they could send structured data in addition to a .txt file for a download of the URI-R's (project here: http://tmvis.cs.odu.edu/). Next I will (for the first time) add a seed to the NYARC Archive-It collection, and include rules and parameters for capture. I will do this for devinkenny.info as part of my practicum project. […] the URL Seed was added to the collection, we clicked on it and then the metadata tab, Grabbed the title, then updated it to be just the artist's name (Devin Kenny), we added seed scope "ignore robots txt" since we have obtained written permission from Kenny to capture his site. Save metadata to confirm changes, then verified its live status, run a one-time test crawl, and save. Now we must wait probably at least 24 hours for the test crawl to be completed […] Once the testing phase is completed, we will probably change the seed scope to crawl bi-annually or quarterly. I anticipate the artist will update his site more frequently in tandem with the occurrence of this project, so would advocate for it to be captured quarterly. Interestingly, while doing the assessment for the visualization tool (unrelated to my practicum), I used Kenny's website as a test and found that his site has been captured 58 times since 2014. Post-lunch: Back to regularly scheduled QA. Checking in on what I still haven't completed from January and February. Still need to run patch crawls on some of Bortolami, and to finish the Frick, checking up on patch crawls from last week.”
See a screen captured example of my journal below:
Throughout the spring semester, I worked on QA for several New York City Gallery collection websites and the Frick Collection monthly crawls. I also began my practicum project, the Devin Kenny Web Collection which diverges from business as usual and largely uses Webrecorder to capture collection material.
About mid-way through the spring semester, I began to work remotely in compliance with the COVID-19 stay-at-home order. During this period I primarily worked using Webrecorder to fill-in some difficult to capture with Archive-It content from The Frick Collection, and to compile Devin Kenny's web collection. New obstacles presented themselves while working from home, such as uncertainty about my network connection contributing to archived Wayback pages not loading. I also found myself unable to sit for a full 8-hour day and parsed my workday over a number of non-consecutive weekdays.
See a screen-captured example from my journal, post-pandemic below:
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