My project documentation is written from the perspective of general maintenance for the TDPS archive website. Originally, my documentation was focused on development notes for the website, but I shifted gears for a few reasons. For one, many of the technical details of the tools needed for the website are documented by Mark McFate for general Digital Grinnell purposes. Two, much of that information is not very imperative to the maintenance of the TDPS archive. While I did keep a lot of the information I did write regarding development notes, I decided to move them to the bottom of the document and move the focus toward the frontend maintenance. Because I know that this job will be done primarily by people who do not have much technical background, I am trying to be as detailed and organized as possible in how information is presented. Each step in the workflow is presented in sections that detail how to use any programs required, as well as my own conventions for how things are done.
For my next steps in the project, getting Kate and Erik started on Mark’s digital ingest app will be the main task next semester. I imagine it will go as smoothly as the process of showing them how to populate the spreadsheet, but it will take a major chunk of our meetings to ensure they are comfortable using it. Besides that, they would also want other objects for shows, such as S&B articles about productions. Searching for those articles will be a task that would go well into the semester.
I enjoyed the profession development model of the on-shift trainings. Revisiting software, while it is very important to continue brushing up on it, was a bit difficult for me to make a full training session out of. However, this could come down to the fact that I have been a Vivero fellow for quite a while.