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The old miserly Ebenezer Scrooge would not have been welcome at "A Dickens Feast," the Pacific Chorale's annual gala fundraiser at the Center Club on Dec. 16. The festive atmosphere would not have been his style before the fateful night of those Christmas hauntings. Instead it seemed no expense was spared to bring a bounteous dinner, sprightly decorations such as lighted sculptures, and elegant table florals, together with lively musical performances.
The night began with a choir concert in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Then 230 guests headed to the Center Club to mingle and feast on a three-course meal. Notable attendees included Pacific Chorale president and CEO Kelly Ruggirello, Pacific Chorale artistic director John Alexander, and event co-chair Vina Williams.
"I had a ball. The audience really appreciated the songs, and it was really wonderful to see the people sing along," said Kathy Cobb-Woll, an alto in the Pacific Chorale and choir director at Santa Ana High School.
A highlight of the dinner included authentic 19th century English dishes, including braised goose and a dessert of Christmas plum pudding with brandy sauce. Throughout the night, carolers, dressed in top hats and scarves, moved among the tables serenading diners. Attendees participated in "The Twelve Days of Christmas," a sing-along.
"It's always a delightful event, very festive," said John Loftus, board president of Southern California Children's Chorus (SCCC), who attended the event with SCCC Founding Director Lori Loftus. "It's all about the people and the music."
Much of the funds were raised beforehand with an underwriting party in November; the dinner netted $150,000. During the program, Alina Mircea-Trotz, a former staff member in the development department, was honored for her service to the Pacific Chorale.


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• roughshod •Pronunciation: rêf -shahd • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective and Adverb
Meaning: 1. Of horses: wearing shoes with protruding nails to prevent slippage. 2. Brutal or brutally, without concern for others or their opinions.
Notes: Today's word comes from the irregular past participle of the verb to shoe: shoe, shod, shod (formerly shodden). It appears in two other words reflecting on the quality of work, slipshod "wearing shoes loosely on the feet" and "of poor quality", and shoddy, probably a reduction of slipshoddy.
In Play: Don't forget the original meaning of this Good Word: "Randy Marathon rode his horse roughshod on the muddy course." Occasions do arise when it might be used. The second meaning, of course, is far more common today: "Harold ran roughshod over the people in his office until he noticed the voodoo dolls appearing his desk each morning."
Word History: Rough comes from Old English ruh, which would have come from an original root *rugh-, found in other words, too. There is a Norwegian dialect with a word rugga "a coarse coverlet" from the same root that is the probable origin of our rug. Swedish ragg "ruffled hair, clump" is another cousin, which may be the source of rag. The difference in sense between the English and Swedish may have been developed through the adjectives ragged and raggy, and Swedish raggig "shaggy, rough, coarse". (A 'thank you' and a tip of Dr. Goodword's hat to Katy Brezger today for pointing out the role of shoes in our ideas of quality.)

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Picnic (1994)
Directed by Shunji IwaiGenres - Drama | Sub-Genres - Psychological Drama | Release Date - Jun 15, 1996 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 72 min. | Countries - Japan | MPAA Rating - PG
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Director Shunji Iwai follows up on the wild success of his star-crossed romantic drama Love Letter with this slick, brooding tale about a trio of mental asylum inmates and one really long wall. Koko (played by pop icon Chara) is placed into an institution after she embarrasses her rich family by killing crows. Sporting a skimpy black dress and a crow's feather boa, she believes that the world was created when she was born and will end when she dies. At the institution, she befriends Tsumuji (Tadanobu Asano), a lad who killed his bullying teacher in a fit of rage and is now haunted by his ghost. After reading a Bible that a priest had given him, Tsumuji becomes convinced that the world is coming to an end. His friend Satoru (Koichi Hashizume) is a quiet retiring sort who is obsessed with rules and who compulsively masturbates. One day, this strange threesome decides to leave the asylum and have a picnic before the world's eminent end. Sensitive to Satoru's neuroses, the trio doesn't hop the hospital walls, but instead walks on top of them. Fortunately, this wall happens to be the longest such edifice this side of China, as it extends to the sea. There, their own personal apocalypse unfolds.
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Why China Was Slow to Catch Disney Fever
Hong Kong Disneyland is making a profit for the first time after seven years of operation. The WSJ's Jeffrey Ng explains why mainland Chinese visitors were slow to warm to North America's favorite childhood characters.
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Flourysh necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 28 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Kolobe Game Farm in South Africa requires a logo. Kolobe means bushpig and an image/silhouette of a bushpig must be included in the logo.
Kolobe Game Farm
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The style should compliment http://www.kameel.co.za . Apart from that its quite flexible.
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Name of the farm: Kolobe Game Farm. Kolobe means Bushpig.
This is the owners second farm. You can see the first farm over here: http://www.kameel.co.za . Kameel means Giraffe. logo: http://www.jws.co.za/client/kolobe/logo.jpg
The logo needs to be of a similar and if not higher standard. A bushpig image must be used in someway in the logo (eg as a silhouette)
Photo of a bushpig taken by the owner: http://www.jws.co.za/client/kolobe/bushpig.jpg
Here are example photos of bushpigs (copyright of the images do not belong to us, you will need to redraw them):
Visit here: http://www.jakt-utstopping.no/jakt_…ushpig.htm to see a description of pushpig.
You may want to include the bushpigs spoor (or foot prints) in the design.
The farm offers eco tourism and bow hunting.
The farm is located in South Africa and contains animals such as impala, kudu, zebra, blesbok,
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SEATTLE — Isaac Zamora's mother begged him to get help when he was released from jail a month ago. State and federal laws prevented her from doing much more for the man who has now been arrested after a shooting spree in rural northwest Washington that left six people dead and four wounded.
The Tuesday afternoon rampage began close to the home of Zamora's mother, Dennise Zamora, near Alger, about 70 miles north of Seattle. It continued amid a high-speed police pursuit on Interstate 5 and ended in Mount Vernon, about 20 miles south of Alger, when Zamora surrendered at a sheriff's office.
In the wake of the shootings, Dennise Zamora has said she wants people to know that "my son was desperately mentally ill and we've been trying to get him help."
If someone resists help in Washington, a family member must demonstrate he is a danger to society or himself or is "gravely disabled" before he can be involuntarily admitted to a mental hospital.
Washington's laws offer more options for involuntary commitment than most other states, said Ron Honberg, legal director of the Arlington, Va.-based National Alliance on Mental Illness. But Washington families still can't petition in court for their adult relatives to get treatment.
States struggle to pay for treatment
The laws were designed to protect the rights of the individual, explains David Weston, chief of mental health services with the mental health division of the Washington Department of Social and Health Services.
Many states, including Washington, also struggle to pay for mental health services.
That might be part of the explanation why Zamora, who was ordered by a judge to seek a mental health evaluation as soon as he was released from jail in August, had not yet seen a counselor. He served six months for cocaine possession.
His evaluation was delayed while his parole officer tried to find money to pay for it, said Chad Lewis, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections, which was supervising Zamora after his release.
Zamora, 28, is being held on $5 million bail for investigation of murder and attempted murder.
According to friends and family, the gunman had been in and out of hospitals over the years, seeking help for mental illness.
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In Zamora's case, the treatment was mostly involuntary, but Weston said the majority of mental health services are provided to people who ask for help.
Start with 911
Fewer than one-third of adults with a diagnosable mental disorder receive any mental health services in a given year, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report on mental health.
Honberg called it a sad irony that in most cases, the 8.1 million adults with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in the United States are being cared for by their families, who have no legal standing.
Friends of Zamora said he had been diagnosed with both mental illnesses, but state officials would not say if such a diagnosis was part of his file.
Forcing an adult to get mental health services requires a complicated legal process in every state, and an appeal by a family member is not usually the most effective way to get that help.
"It's not unusual at all for the initial contact to be with law enforcement," Weston said. "911 is often the right place to start."
Family members may be more successful at getting their loved ones help for a mental disorder if they try an approach other than pleading or badgering, said Dr. Xavier Amador, author of a guide for getting treatment for a family member. Half of the people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in this country don't understand they are ill, Amador said.
Instead of trying to change the person's mind about treatment, family and friends can listen to the person's concerns and find a common area of agreement that can lead to the same result.
For example, the person may agree to treatment to keep the police away from their front door or may be willing to take medications as a way to avoid going to the hospital.
Amador, who said the method has been taught to families, health care providers and law enforcement officials around the world and helped get his own brother, who suffers from mental illness, into treatment.
"It's really pretty simple if you think about it," he said.
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Backfire! With Cleaner Cars, People Drive More
Sweden, that sustainability superstar, really prides itself on being "green." It is one of the few countries to decouple CO2 emissions from economic growth. It has switched a huge portion of its heating away from fossil fuels (district heating). It's the best recycling nation on Earth. It consistently lands in the top ten of rankings of most sustainable nations. Sweden even has made the audacious claim that it will go fossil-fuel free by 2020. It has green trains, green planes, and designed a car that automatically stop for peds and cyclists. But Sweden also has a dirty little transportation secret.For the last three years, Sweden has led the world in its per capita sales of so-called green automobiles. Ethanol cars have been a big winner, as have cleaner diesel vehicles.
Swedes love to keep statistics on green car sales, but there's a new statistic that doesn't reflect so well on squeaky-green Sweden. People rushed to buy green cars (there was a generous subsidy) and they are now driving them more.
Emissions from the transport segment rose by 100,000 tons last year in Sweden. Trafikverket, the Swedish Tranport Agency (STA), reported that while purchases of efficient and greener cars decreased carbon dioxide emissions on a per car basis (from 164 to 151 grams of CO2 equivalent per kilometer driven), people's increased driving caused emissions to rise.
This isn't a big surprise - it has happened so many times before that researchers call this the backfire effect - make a service more efficient and cleaner and people can eat up the green gains by using it more.
These numbers don't exactly sit well with the STA, which cautions (my translation):
"It is clear that more effective motors and biofuels are not enough to offset increased traffic - at the most these can only stabilize emissions levels. To achieve cuts will require a change of direction in the development of society and infrastructure. The car must be less important in favor of increased public transport, cycling, rail transport, and shipping."
Out of the mouths of Swedes.
More about Sweden:
Dead Bunny Rabbits Burn for Bioenergy
Sweden Says Eat Up Your Greenhouse Effect
Swedish Thermos House Offers Low Emission Life


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Alcuin of York
Born: 735 in York, Yorkshire, England
Died: 19 May 804 in Tours, France
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Alcuin of York was born into a high ranking family who lived near the East Coast of England. He was sent to York where he became a pupil at York cathedral school, Archbishop Ecgberht's School.
After being a pupil at Archbishop Ecgberht's School, Alcuin remained there as a teacher, becoming headmaster of the school in 778. During his time as a teacher at this school in York Alcuin built up a fine library, one of the best in Europe, and made the school one of the most important centres of learning in Europe. He wrote a long poem describing the men associated with York's history before he left for the continent.
In 781 Alcuin accepted an invitation from Charlemagne to go to Aachen to a meeting of the leading scholars of the time. Following this meeting, he was appointed head of Charlemagne's Palace School at Aachen and there he developed the Carolingian minuscule, a clear script which has become the basis of the way the letters of the present Roman alphabet are written. Before leaving Aachen, Alcuin was responsible for the most precious of Carolingian codices, now called the Golden Gospels. These were a series of illuminated masterpieces written largely in gold, often on purple coloured vellum.
The development of Carolingian minuscule had, although somewhat indirectly, a large impact on the history of mathematics. It was a script which was much more readable than the old unspaced capital script which was in use before this and, as a consequence, most of the mathematical works were freshly copied into this new script in the 9th century. Most of the works of the ancient Greek mathematicians which have survived do so because of this copying process and it is the 'latest' version written in minuscule script which has survived.
Not only was Alcuin headmaster of Charlemagne's Palace School at Aachen but he also was a personal friend to Charlemagne and became the teacher of his two sons. In fact Alcuin lived in Aachen for two periods, during the years 782 to 790 and then again from 793 to 796.
In 796 Alcuin retired from Charlemagne's Palace School at Aachen and became abbot of the Abbey of St Martin at Tours, where he had his monks continue to work with the Carolingian minuscule script. While in Tours Alcuin arranged for some of his pupils to go to York to bring some of the rarer works that he had collected there back to Tours. He wrote:-
I say this that you may agree to send some of our boys to get everything we need from there and bring the flowers of Britain back to France that as well as the walled garden in York there may be off-shoots of paradise bearing fruit in Tours.Alcuin wrote elementary texts on arithmetic, geometry and astronomy at a time when a renaissance in learning in Europe was just beginning, a renaissance mainly led by Alcuin himself. His lesson books were written in a question - and - answer format. However his work in this area, unlike the inspired calligraphy he developed, shows little originality.
Late in his life Alcuin summed up his own career with a rather beautiful description:-
In the morning, at the height of my powers, I sowed the seed in Britain, now in the evening when my blood is growing cold I am still sowing in France, hoping both will grow, by the grace of God, giving some the honey of the holy scriptures, making others drunk on the old wine of ancient learning...The influence of Alcuin on later generations can be illustrated by a poem by Siegried Sassoon at THIS LINK
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
List of References (6 books/articles)
A Quotation
A Poster of Alcuin
See this mathematician on a timeline
Mathematicians born in the same country
Additional Material in MacTutor
- Siegfried Sassoon on Alcuin
- An entry in The Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles
Cross-references in MacTutor
- Alcuin's book:
- Chronology: 500 to 900
Other Web sites
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Dictionary of National Biography
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Catholic Encyclopedia


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Dr. Brian Specht
Brian Specht at shortstop for the Arkansas Travelers in 2003.
Brian Specht was once a top-prospect shortstop in the Angels' minor league system. Baseball America ranked him in 2000 as the Angels' #3 prospect.
According to BA, the Angels gave Brian a $600,000 signing bonus to keep him from going to Baylor University where he intended to pursue a medical career.
Injuries, unfortunately, derailed his baseball career. Brian was named the outstanding rookie in the Angels' 2004 spring training camp, but injuries the next three years took their toll and he retired in the middle of the 2006 season.
Brian returned home to Colorado Springs for a life in the normal world. His family has kept me apprised of his doings.
Last night I was told that Brian will graduate on May 21 summa c*m laude with a B.A. in Chemistry and a B.A. in Biology. He will begin medical school in August at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.
I'll always remember Brian as the 19-year old who reported to Advanced Class-A Lake Elsinore in May 2000 from extended spring training as an emergency filler for the Storm shortstop who'd gone on the disabled list. Brian went on a tear, hitting .429 in May while performing thrilling feats of defensive derring-do. I was sitting one night in the stands behind home plate with Angels' farm director Darrell Miller in the row behind me. After Brian got yet another hit, I turned to Darrell and said, "Can we keep him for at least a little while before you move him up?!"
Life isn't fair, and Brian's baseball life wasn't fair to him, but in the medical world he'll make a much bigger contribution to humanity than playing baseball. But if he'd stayed healthy, today he might be a star Angels shortstop. What might have been …


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China to rein in yuan: ANZ
China's central bank is likely to push the yuan weaker in the near term to protect its trade position against the depreciating yen, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ) said.
The yuan has appreciated nearly 8 percent against the yen since Japan launched its quantitative easing measures on April 3.
Liu Li-gang (劉利剛), ANZ's chief economist in Greater China, said that based on a study by the bank, China's global exports fall about 0.17 percent for every 1 percent depreciation in the yen against the yuan.
If the yen were to weaken to ¥110 against the US dollar, China's global exports would likely decline by as much as 8 percent, he said.
"We believe China's central bank will likely encourage yuan volatility to deter capital inflows. In addition, if China was to truly follow a basket of currencies to determine the exchange rate, the yuan could be pushed to the weak side in the near term," Liu said.
Biotech sector to expand: MOEA
The nation's biotechnology will continue to expand, in terms of both investment and business turnover, as the global market grows, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said on Saturday.
Investment in the biotechnology sector rose 18.66 percent year-on-year last year to NT$39.53 billion (US$1.34 billion), and sales rose 6.1 percent to NT$255 billion, the ministry said.
The upward trend will continue, the ministry said, in line with a forecast by Datamonitor that the global biotechnology market will continue to expand at a significant pace.
The forecast expected the global biotechnology market's turnover to reach US$288.2 billion this year, up 10 percent from the previous year.
Next year, the global market will likely grow another 10.5 percent, according to the projection.
Taipei Harbor to launch ferry
Following in the footsteps of Keelung and Greater Taichung, Taipei Harbor will launch direct passenger service between Taiwan and China on May 13, Taiwan International Ports Corp (TIPC, 臺灣港務公司) said on Saturday.
The company said a passenger-cargo dual-use ship operated by Taiwan-based Wagon Shipping Co (華岡) will sail from Taipei to Pingtan in Fujian Province and back once a day, five days a week.
The ship will have capacity for 800 passengers, and the trip will take two hours and 45 minutes each way, the company said.
The service will be the latest addition to a growing lineup of cruise ferry services being offered across the Taiwan Strait, TIPC said.
Taipower to penalize employee
Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) yesterday said it would penalize an employee who was found to have joined the company's component suppliers at "inappropriate places" to negotiate business deals.
The state-run utility's action came after local media reported Taiwan Power Research Institute electronics specialist Chen Chun-hsiung (陳俊雄) lowered transformer standards for component suppliers after negotiating deals at bars.
Taipower said it had begun a probe over the scandal and will mark Chen an demerit as an administrative sanction.
Fongshan remains hot market
Fongshan (鳳山) remained the favorite location of property buyers in the Greater Kaohsiung area last month, leading the municipality's 38 administrative districts in real-estate transactions, according to government statistics released on Saturday.
A total of 586 residential and commercial units were sold in Fongshan last month, up 86 percent from February, Sinyi Realty Inc (信義房屋) said, citing the statistics.


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to the beach, Night Bazaar, entertainment areas and Jungceylon Shopping
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In Defense of Vertical Navigation
A response to Smashing Magazine's "The Case Against Vertical Navigation."
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A response to Smashing Magazine's "The Case Against Vertical Navigation."
Wordpress 2.5's interface overhaul is getting closer, and now that I've been able to play with the release candidate, these are my thoughts.
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I have a birdfeeder out by the patio and as always weeds and stuff grow underneath. I noticed this sunflower a couple of weeks ago - it has 5 blooms on it. Now the birdies can eat those.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
I crocheted this dishcloth last night. It's made with Coats & Clark Creme de la Creme and I used an "I" hook. My sister Julie loves these things.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Chenille purse & bottle carrier
Here's a couple of projects I've finished last night and today. The chenille purse and cell phone cover are made with Lion Brand Thick & Quick Chenille - I used an "L" hook. The water bottle carrier I crocheted with Coats & Clark Creme de la Creme cotton yarn - I used an "I" hook.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Another "Inga's bag"
Here's the other "Inga's crocheted bag" that I finished last night. This one is more my size for an everyday purse. It measures 10" x 11" x 5". Now I just have to get a pair of clear "U" shaped handles at Joann's.
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
"Inga's crocheted purse"
I finished this "Inga's crocheted purse" this afternoon - minus the crocheted handles. I wanted to add a pair of pink U-shaped acrylic handles but they are not wide enough. I'm going to ask Vince if he can make a pair of wider ones out of wood. The bag is also a little too large for my needs - it's 13 1/2" across, 14" from top to bottom and about 8" wide.
I've started another with some pretty blue, green and white variegated yarn that I bought off of Ebay. I'm going to make 3 round squares instead of 4 round squares. Hopefully the size will turn out better for me.
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Southern Baptist TEXAN
The Baptist Messenger (Oklahoma)
Penn-Jersey Baptist
UUPG challenge sent church on 2-year
prayer journey & an ambitious climb
By Kay Adkins
TYLER, Texas (Southern Baptist TEXAN) -- Last October, a team from Calvary Baptist Church traveled to a rural town halfway around the globe, trusting God to lead them to an isolated, unengaged and unreached people group (UUPG) for whom they had been praying for more than two years.
But the Tyler church's international journey really began in summer 2011. Pastor Fred Smith read a news article that noted the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention's challenge to Texas Southern Baptists to embrace and engage 1,000 of what was then about 3,800 UUPGs worldwide—a number that has shrunk to a little more than 3,000 UUPGs today, the SBC's International Mission Board reported in January.
"I called the SBTC and they told me the challenge had just happened and that more information would be coming," Smith said. "I started praying and watching for more information to see what this meant." Soon after, a team from the church attended the IMB's Embrace Conference in Cedar Hill to learn more about the process of embracing a UUPG.
Calvary Baptist, a church that runs about 120 in attendance with an annual budget of about $200,000, was already actively pursuing missions, providing financial and prayer support to three International Mission Board missionaries in three different countries. As they began to research UUPGs, they began to look at groups located in regions surrounding the IMB missionaries they were supporting in Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa.
"After about four or five months, we had narrowed it down to Southeast Asia, and we saw that there was a triangle of UUPGs around our missionaries there. We looked up each group on the UUPG map and began to pray," Smith explained.
Smith and his ministry partner and wife, Lisa, said scant information was available about the group they eventually felt led to engage. From the Joshua Project site, joshuaproject.net, they learned that their UUPG had once been enslaved and that their emancipation had occurred less than 100 years ago. The UUPG then dispersed into mountain regions to escape maltreatment by their former oppressors.
"We were excited that we might have an opportunity to take the gospel to them so that they could also be set free from slavery to sin," Fred Smith said.
In January 2013, wanting to find a way to get more information about the UUPG and how to connect with them, Fred Smith called the IMB office, not knowing whom he should ask for, or what he should ask. He selected an option from the IMB's automated response system. Then he began to explain his query to the person who answered.
"Hi, I am looking at doing a 12-week sabbatical in our UUPG country to take some classes and do research on a UUPG with the aim of bringing a group from my church," Fred Smith told the man who answered. Smith then explained more about the UUPG the church felt led to reach.
He was about to be amazed by what he called the first "divine encounter" related to this vision. The IMB missionary on the phone responded: "You're not going to believe this, but I have been a missionary to that region. You can come with me, and I can drive you to the doorstep of your people group and drop you off."
Smith, awed by God's intervention, invited the IMB missionary to come to Tyler and share with the congregation more about the people group and what it would take to engage them. Nine months later a group of six from Calvary Baptist, and two IMB missionaries were together for Calvary's first vision trip in their UUPG country. Because so little was known of their UUPG at this point, Lisa Smith confessed, "I fully expected to make the long journey, and never be able to find the people group we wanted to reach."
But God had arranged another divine encounter. Upon arriving in the township that would be the group's base camp, team member and Calvary's family ministry coordinator, Phil Baker, recounted, "The first thing we saw was a police officer who looked at us with a 'what are you doing here?' expression. Here we are, obviously at a place where no tourists would typically come, and certainly no white people. Some of us are over six feet tall -- tall, giant white people."
Their IMB guide explained to the officer that the group was interested in seeing the rural areas and needed a place to stay. Baker watched the officer's demeanor change from being skeptical, to being friendly, much to the relief of the group.
Baker said, "One of the things we had been told to pray for was that we would meet a person of peace -- a person open to the group or open to the gospel."
He said he believed God had answered that prayer.
The officer was pleased to lead them to a local hotel. They met the innkeeper who thought the group should check out the facilities before they paid their $2.50 per night in American currency to stay there.
Baker and the others "had never imagined this kind of a set up" in which the restroom facilities were quite a distance from the rooms, down an open-air walkway, past a semi-dry pig waste area, down some steep stairs that led to a narrow path through a gate, and finally to the restroom building itself. Smith described the sleeping accommodations as cardboard boxes serving as mattresses, "hard and filthy" and "not for the faint-of-heart."
Despite the rough accommodations, the group accepted them gratefully. They were invited by the innkeeper to the lobby area for some pears and green tea. To their amazement, also enjoying some refreshments in the lobby was a group of six indigenous people in colorful clothing -- members of the UUPG for whom the team had come.
"So within five minutes we had met six people from our people group. It was an incredible blessing," Fred Smith said.
The native group had come into town and were delayed in returning to their village because of a health problem with one of the men, which was why they were at the hotel.
The native people invited the Calvary team to sit with them, men at the men's table and women at the women's table. One of the female Calvary team members knew a common language spoken in the region and was able to assist in communicating with the women while the IMB missionary guides translated at the men's table.
Lisa Smith said, "They made sure we felt welcomed and they provided us with food. We discussed general topics, like food. We asked about their children and they asked about ours. We admired their dress."
The natives also provided directions to their village in the mountains inhabited by Calvary's UUPG, and they offered to cook a meal for the team while they were in the village, as long as the team could provide the food.
As the Calvary group experienced more of the town, their eyes were opened to spiritual influences present, such as the many Buddhist and Hindu idols visible. After midnight they listened as villagers set off firecrackers intended to ward off evil spirits.
"They were afraid, and part of their spiritual training, which includes ancestor worship, is to set off fireworks," Fred Smith explained, speculating that the presence of Americans in the village had evidently caused some to be alarmed.
He said, "We knew it was a dark place, but it is very different when you go into a dark place. It made us realize that we must fast and pray daily. We prayed for a Lydia, or a Cornelius -- someone open to the message. We prayed that God would go before us."
The next day, the Calvary team and the IMB missionary guides loaded into their van and began the strenuous journey into the mountains to find the village and the village people they had come to engage with the gospel of Christ. Following the directions given to them, they drove the van as far as the rugged road would permit, then they hiked on foot into the village.
Baker noted that they were able to recognize the people belonging to their UUPG when they saw them because of the group they had encountered at the hotel; women traditionally wear a recognizable head dress and sash.
He added, "One thing that really surprised me -- up until then it had been very vague -- we had just seen pictures when praying for them. But when we met, as soon as I saw them, I thought, 'I love these people. I care about them, and I want to be involved in ministry to these people.'" He compared it to his family's experience of adopting a foster child, noting that the moment he saw his soon-to-be-adopted daughter he immediately loved her. "Through God we have an enormous capacity to love them," Baker explained.
Now that the Calvary team has found one village inhabited by their UUPG, they are strategizing how to connect with them.
"We decided the best thing is to get our own missionaries on the ground there," Fred Smith said. "We want to send a missionary couple to our region at that base camp to organize our mission trips."
Lisa Smith speculated that teams of two might be less alarming to the local residents and might have a better chance of building relationships and learning about the needs. Language will be a challenging barrier to overcome, as their UUPG speaks a language that has not yet been fully documented. Some of the younger generation speaks a more familiar dialect, but Lisa Smith said the older generation speaks only the minority dialect.
Fred Smith said his current missions philosophy is one he picked up from another pastor: "We used to go hundreds of places one time. Now we will go to one place hundreds of times."
In a trembling voice, Lisa Smith reflected on a key reason for being a part of reaching UUPGs worldwide, recalling the prayer of one of their church elders before they went on their vision trip.
"In his prayer he said that one day, when we are all in heaven bowing before God on his throne, we will be able to look over the crowd of people there, and we will see our people group -- there, with us, also bowing before the Lord. That is just awesome."
For information about UUPG's worldwide and how to get involved in reaching them, visitembrace.imbresources.org and joshuaproject.net.
This article appeared in the Southern Baptist TEXAN (texanonline.net), newsjournal of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. Kay Adkins is a freelance writer for the TEXAN.
By Chris Doyle
MARLOW, Okla. (The Baptist Messenger) -- "It is unlike anything they think a church would do," said Joe Ligon, pastor of Marlow, First, who spoke about the expectations of unchurched young adults who attended the church's
"D-Up" weekend event, March 14-16.
For the third consecutive year, Marlow, First has been using "D-Up" as a way to draw young adults who live in or near the southwestern town. "I really think the Lord led us to doing this," Ligon said. "We have been blessed with an incredible number of young adults and young families, and we were trying to think of ways to encourage them, disciple them. We also wanted to find ways to invite their friends."
Many churches are familiar with "Disciple Now" or "D-Now," which is a weekend event focused on junior high and high school students that churches do to integrate the students in small group discipleship and do community outreach.
"We have been doing 'D-Now' for years like everybody else, but the question was what can we do for young adults, and 'D-Up' was a result of that," said Ligon. "It is like 'D-Now' on steroids."
Ligon said the first year Marlow, First held "D-Up" they convinced 150 young adults to attend. "The first year we did it, nobody knew what it was, including the staff," he said. This year, approximately 300 attended "D-Up."
Mainly, the event is to incorporate three elements: 1. Worship experiences; 2. Games young adults want to play; and 3. Build relationships.
"As far as I know, we are the only ones that have done it the way we've done it, so we just started from scratch," said Ligon. "What kind of weekend experience can we provide that will be attractive and helpful? Each year has changed. The format is the same, but the details have changed, as far as what we are doing. We make it as easy as possible for someone to come be involved."
Team leaders are appointed to find at least 10 people to be on their respective team with at least two people who are not church members. Majority are 35 and younger.
Mitch Boles, a member of Marlow, First, said there were about 20 teams participating. This was Boles' first year to be a team leader. His team was so large, they split into two teams. "It's a great outreach," he said, and Boles was instrumental in eight non-church members attending.
The event started Friday night, with a worship service. The Cody Dunbar Band led a time of singing, and Brian Bowman, pastor of Phoenix, Ariz., Valley Life was the event's speaker.
Then the team activities follow. In the church's gym, participants gather to do competitions that are familiar from the television show "Minute to Win It." Saturday's schedule is similar, but some of the functions are outdoors. The event culminated on Sunday morning, inviting everyone back for Sunday School.
"Adults can play games and 'let their hair down.' Act crazy," said Ligon. "It makes it easy to invite their unchurched friends to come be a part of this. We shoot shotguns. We play all kinds of crazy games. It's a weekend for adults to not act like adults and be kids again."
"It's a cool experience," said Chad Choate, a Marlow, First member. "This is like an adult Falls Creek. It is an opportunity that 'opens doors' to people who wouldn't normally come to church, and we can build relationships."
Choate said Pastor Ligon and Marlow, First have done a great job attracting young adults because they are willing to "think outside the box." He mentioned how the church gets involved in community outreach by going to grocery stores and gas stations and pay a portion of people's bills.
"They don't 'do church' like people normally think," Choate said. "They provide a variety of things, even in the worship services." Boles said it's possible to see people hitting balloons and beach balls to each other during a Sunday worship service. Obviously, that is not normally what a church would do.
Ligon and Marlow, First is willing to do the extraordinary in order to connect with one of the most unchurched people groups in the country. From their three-year results, it seems like they are successful in drawing people to church and ultimately to God.
This article appeared in The Baptist Messenger (baptistmessenger.com), newsjournal of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. Chris Doyle is associate editor of The Baptist Messenger.
Penn-Jersey Baptists seek to
share Gospel with Filipinos
By Irene Yanes
PHILADELPHIA (Penn-Jersey Baptist) -- On Nov. 8, Super Typhoon Haiyan, locally known as Yolanda, cut a devastating path across the central Philippines. It was the strongest tropical cyclone to ever make landfall with a storm-strength equivalent to category five.
Nearly 13 million people have been affected across the Visayas region homes of more than 16 million people were either flattened or damaged, and more than 6,000 deaths—and many are still missing
Jan. 14-24, two months after the typhoon's landfall, with the support of the Penn-Jersey Baptist Convention churches; family and friends, three Penn-Jersey pastors responded to bring a message of hope to the typhoon victims in the Philippines on a short, but meaningful mission trip. The pastors included Peter Yanes, a Church Planting Catalyst of BRN Philadelphia, Roger Manao, of Philadelphia Bible Church International, and Darius Nable, of The Church of the Good Shepherd Cherry Hill. Each made a vow to victims to personally bring help and share the gospel.
The pastors ministered to more than 600 families yielding 200-plus professions of faith. They were joined by 46 local pastors and leaders as they traveled to more than a dozen villages and towns throughout the three provinces of Northern Cebu, Leyte and Eastern Samar.
A new church plant in one of the villages is underway after 47 locals received Jesus as their Savior. The church plant is operating in partnership with the leaders and pastors of the Visayan Churches of the Southern Baptist Convention.
This article appeared in the Penn-Jersey Baptist, newsjournal of the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania-South Jersey (brnonline.org). Irene Yanes and her husband Peter are church planters in Philadelphia.
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Meeting Notes
- 1 Metadata & DS 10/11/16
- 2 Metadata & DS 9/20/16
- 3 Metadata & DS 9/13/16
- 4 Metadata & DS 9/6/16
- 5 Metadata & DS 8/23/16
- 6 Metadata & DS 8/16/16
- 7 Metadata & DS 8/9/16
- 8 Metadata & DS 8/2/16
- 9 Metadata & DS 7/26/16
- 10 Metadata & DS 7/19/16
- 11 Metadata & DS 7/12/16
- 12 Metadata & DS 6/29/16
- 13 Metadata & DS 6/14/16
- 14 Metadata & DS 6/8/16
- 15 Metadata & DS 5/31/16
- 16 Metadata & DS 5/24/16
Metadata & DS 10/11/16
1. Let Jeremiah know if you want to surplus things
2. DSpace Metadata
3. Ideas on proposed PDF EADS
Metadata & DS 9/20/16
We reviewed our proposed rewritten goals which now align with the library strategic plan, and modified appropriately.
Metadata & DS 9/13/16
- Photos - shoot as a scrapbook
- Byron Arnold - research
- LCGFT - modify xsl? use AAT primarily
Metadata & DS 9/6/16
1. Creator for Newspaper
- If you don't know the author
- Not Title of Newspaper but publisher
- But title of newspaper needs to be in the metadata somewhere
- Newspaper clipping parent and child relationship parent is newspaper article is child
- Metadata schema for publishers called prism
- Not Title of Newspaper but publisher
- Need to add field to spreadsheet for related item (Host with display label(xsl ex. Publication))
Metadata & DS 8/23/16
1. Subjects remediation
- Familiarize yourself with MARC record topical term codes to identify the tag value for subjects remediation: https://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad1xx3xx.html
Metadata & DS 8/16/16
Metadata & DS 8/9/16
1. Determining CIRCA dates suggestions:
- Does the content clue you into a world event
- It's probably at least within the birth and death dates of those involved
- Compare them to letters around them
2. Update on Internships
- Hire student workers not interns as per Dean
3. Library Expo
- Wait until Jeremiah gets back
4. Metadata Feature List for new delivery system
- Put an X in the level of importance you think each feature has
- We do want multiple X's per feature
- Located: S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\Staff_docs\Information_Share\features.xlsx
5. Who Wants to Work On What?
- If you do not know something and also don't care to learn it remove your "o's"
Questions to ask when we leave the meeting:
- Should we make MARC records?
- Are we feeding into OCLC? How?
- Can DSPACE feeds handle OCLC?
Metadata & DS 8/2/16
1. BC dates in MODS
- Fix makeMODS accordingly.
2. Metadata spreadsheet
- Excel file into storage excel S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\Pipeline\collectionInfo\Storage_Excel
- Text file goes to Jody pickup area S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\Pipeline\collectionInfo\JodyPickup
2. Library Expo
- Do we want to be involved in the library expo?
- September 21 from 11-1 pm
3. Some subject stuff
- Confederate States of America
- Geographic if by itself, Corporate with Subdivisions
- Bryant-Denny Stadium
- Does not require Geographic qualifier. Naf is wrong at the moment. It's not Bryce Hospital
4. What's a name?
- Generic terms of address are NOT names (Sir, Ma'am, Stockholders, etc.)
- :)
Metadata & DS 7/26/16
1. EAD discrepancies while doing item level metadata description
- How do we communicate information to archivists?
- Spreadsheet template: S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\Templates\EAD_changeRequests.xslx
- Possible methods email or drop here: S:\Special Collections\Digital_Program_files\EAD\Feedback
- What kinds of things might we run across that is different from EAD?
- Names
- Content
- Add to the scope and content
- Correcting folder titles/ missing folders
2. Transcripts
- Transcripts script
Metadata & DS 7/19/16
1. Proposed Workshop Wednesday on using MARC for published materials
2. Cross training
- How should we bring up we don't know something?
- Corinne is available for training on the following:
- Audio digitization
- Upload and other scripts
- Jeremiah is available for training on the following:
- Digitization issues
- Technical difficulties
- Python
- Alissa is available for training on the following:
- Setting up collection directories and XML files
- April is available for training on the following:
- item-level processing
- EAD things
- Vanessa is available for training on the following:
- Metadata
- Mary is available for training on the following:
- Metadata
3. How we should name our spreadsheets
- As of 2011, there are 3 types of spreadsheets: m01 (Manuscript), m02 (Audio), m03 (Published)
- As of today we are keeping it
4. Communication
Metadata & DS 7/12/16
1) Geographic Names
- we will disambiguate rivers with the word "river".
2) Subject remediation
- if a subject is just really awful then a replacement subject maybe added to corrected to replace it. beware that all subjects that resemble it will also be replaced.
3) & vs. &
- amp; Jody is not sure if all scripts are handling ampersand correctly
- "and" is standard for LCSH. please use subjects that use "and" instead of "&"
4) Genre in subject field
- avoid redundancy when using the genre and use common sense
Metadata & DS 6/29/16
1) Highlights from Round Robin
- Jeremiah is developing equipment request for fall. It would take ~ 24k to bring the CaptureBack up to speed, so once again we are not planning to upgrade it.
- Alissa (with Claire's help) drafted changes to the DS internship and justification of each module; please review under S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\staffing this week.
- Mary & Vanessa are working on mapping/transforms for ETDs for DSpace; Jody has developed software to enable us to group by year/type and upload the content.
2) We reviewed the Shift Reporter and made several decisions:
- Remove Documentation at the category level and use "Other Tasks" then work type "Documentation"
- Meetings and Communication that are focused on Training and Learning or Production Support should be categorized there instead.
- Software development and troubleshooting goes under Production Support unless it's for Archiving & Preservation. Only use Research & Development for true R&D.
- Remove service as a task under Meetings & Communication, Material Exchange, and Training and Learning.
- Now that we are not using Shift Reporter to develop our monthly count, please DO INCLUDE estimate counts for optimization and QC.
3) We reviewed and approved the proposed goals for July.
4) The new Script Toolbox developed by DS staff is located in S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\scripts\toolbox.py -- as demo'd, it provides a single interface to numerous scripts, with links to more information about what each script does. This should reduce confusion and make it simple to find everything you need in one place. If you want other scripts added, notify the DS folks. Great work, folks, and terrific idea, Corinne!!
5) The archivists are being consulted as to who should take over 2 portions of April's work while she's out: item-level processing and EAD updates. Stay tuned... if it's folks on our end, we'll need to train before April is gone.
6) We're off on Monday for July 4th; the 5th is our celebration party. Bring snacks and games!
Metadata & DS 6/14/16
1) Wikifying Decisions
- The wiki will be updated with decisions made during departmental meeting under Documentation
- on a monthly basis, these decisions will be incorporated into the correct location on the wiki:
- Mary for Metadata and
- Jeremiah for DS
- Decisions made in person and via email must be added to wiki and communicated, so we're all on the same page
2) Restricted content
- Cannot currently be handled in Acumen. We'll need to locate the content in a different directory, and link to it from the metadata record
- We'll use PURLS as the location will likely change
- Mary will determine where in the MODS the link should go
- We'll have to modify the XSL to make the links clickable
- This will require a special upload process, instead of "relocate"
3) Library fair coming up
- Corinne, Claire and Alissa will think about how we can be more engaging and creative
- Jeremiah suggested we take pictures of people and put them in Acumen (Jody asked for rights agreement!)
- Some discussion about whether we should combine efforts with Digital Humanities, Special Collections or Will Jones.
- Jody will ask if we have a separate table, and whether we'll be combining with Week of Welcome.
4) Mockup for front of Acumen
- Corinne showed us 3 mockups; we preferred the one with 6 collection images.
- Corinne will share this with Will and ask to meet and discuss.
- There was some hope of retaining the existing graph, and creating an image map so clicking on parts of it would take the user to representative collections; Jeremiah will look into that and will ask Will if he could support that. If so, the graph could continue to display, but perhaps under the collection images.
- There was hope of getting rid of the "Beta" which may drive people away. Corinne will ask for this change (and will request inclusion in the Acumen-L list)
5) Spreadsheet check script review
- Corinne shared (again) a script that checks your exported spreadsheet to see if there are problems that could keep makeMods from generating the MODS without error. It's called spreadsheetCheck.pl and is located in Digital Projects\Administrative\scripts\Metadata.
- Right now it outputs errors to the command line. She'll modify it to write to an output file and email everyone when that is ready.
6) TGM is not required for topical subjects (reversal of earlier methodology mentioned in last week's meeting).
- That practice came out of cataloging and is not relevant for us.
- TGM is heavy on ampersands.
- To search TGM, use this site for TGM (Use "Search this Collection" not "search all")
7) Since Jody and Mary will be out next Tuesday, the group voted to skip meeting next week. Our next meeting will be on the 28th. Reminder: on July 5th, bring snacks and games to share. We'll be celebrating our 1-year anniversary as a department, all our accomplishments of this past year, and Alissa and Claire completing their 6-month reviews.
Metadata & DS 6/8/16
1) Overlapping collections in Acumen.
- Use Uniform titles so that metadata will enable online search-and-retrieval of related content in different collections.
- Emphasis (u0008_0000001) recordings were found in UA Reel-to-Reel Collection (u0008_2012038). Audio comes to us unprocessed, so the archivists may be unaware of this. Corinne will check with Donnelly and Marina to find out if these recordings are in the wrong collection. If so, Claire can add to the Emphasis spreadsheet she's remediating.
2) Spreadsheet work feedback
- Title metadata coming straight from finding aids should not be changed (Item-level entries in image collection finding aids are extracted to spreadsheets to reduce duplication of effort).
- It's okay to use the caption of an image as the title; if you do, write "Title from caption" in the description field.
- Ensure that titles are unique.
- Unpublished items don't need the exact punctuation used on the analog title (exception: Roland Harper)
- Avoid redundancy in subjects, such as the location in multiple places
- Use organization names that coincide with the date of the item (names change over time)
- Avoid use of subjects for topics that are minimally covered by the item
- Use TGM (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials) for topics alone, not LCSH.
- When using names in subjects, however, use LCSH.
3) Subject Location
- Subject location tagging information is on the wiki under HierarchicalGeographic
- If Jody's script that tags entries for this is of interest, someone can modify it to give it a GUI for use while working on spreadsheets
- To support subject locations that are NOT in TGN (Thesaurus of Geographic Names), we will add a column for local versions of subject locations. Mary will modify the spreadsheet templates, and Jody will modify makeMods to support this once Mary sends her the new spreadsheet headers for these columns.
4) Creator/Name Columns
In a previous meeting, we'd proposed removing all name columns except Creator(s) and then tagging names with #4 and the correct MARC Relator term. (The script refers to the list located in Administrative/scripts/Metadata/makeMods/ on the share drive. If we use other terms, they should be added.) This would reduce the number of columns in the spreadsheet. There does not seem to be a consensus yet on whether this is the way to go. Jody said the makeMods script supports either approach, and asked the group for their preferences. We'll think about this and discuss again next week.
5) Subject Repair
Vanessa proposed last week that multiple volunteers try to repair 5 subjects a day, so we can make progress on this project. She reviewed the approach, to which we have added 2 columns.
- SearchOn (the first column) contains the subject in its current form
- Corrected (2nd column) contains a corrected form of the subject (if needed)
- TaggedValue (3rd column) contains the corrected form with appropriate subject tags.
- Authority (4th column) indicates the authority, usually LCSH or TGM.
- SecondaryAuthority (5th column) is in case the term is in multiple authorities, such as the term "dog"
- Collection (new 6th column) indicates what collection this is found in
- Items (new 7th column) indicates the comma-separated list of items, if this term is only used in a couple of files
These last 2 columns will make it possible for our scripts to update Acumen without having to go through every single MODS in Acumen to find the items for correction. We reviewed the lists (NOTE: PLEASE USE THE ONES in S:\Public\DigitalServices\ContentAnalysis\Subjects\WorkOnThese\!).
- Mary and Celeste are doing the Names_Subjects as they are remediating names.
- Vanessa is doing the Geography ones, and will pull the ProQuest ones out of the Subjects list.
- Alissa will take US & War
- Claire will work on UA
- Corinne will do A-C of the Subjects lists.
Please touch base with Vanessa weekly, and we'll revisit this in a month or so to see how we're doing.
6) Volunteer: Cyndi Woolsey, our intern from spring, is coming back to volunteer 1 day a week until she lands a job. She'll meet with Corinne on Thursday to do paperwork and arrange her schedule.
7) As of July 1, Metadata & Digital Services will be 1 year old. We've come a long way: completely revamped the metadata workflow, built databases and new software, revised everyone's work duties, and built a new team. Let's celebrate our accomplishments! Our first meeting in July (on the 5th) will be a celebration. Please bring snacks and favorite games to share. We'll invite Hoole folks too.
Metadata & DS 5/31/16
1) Round Robin highlights:
- Jeremiah has located a python software module that may enable us to modify current scripts to avoid (most? All?) exports. It will require a different version of python to be installed on our desktops. Stay tuned!
- Claire completed her 6 month review!!
2) Updates:
- Crimson White:
- PDFs are being generated from our old content for Student Media
- They're giving us copies of their PDFs 2004-present
- Jody's developing Requests for Information to outsource microfilm to see if that's viable
- Student Media proposes to disbind the volumes we still need to digitize and provide us with students for capture
- Jody will keep us updated
- Spreadsheet/database workflow project:
- This will do away with the Selection spreadsheet and Tracking Filenames, interacting instead with our database.
- Jody, Alissa and Claire are working on the back end
- Jeremiah will start building an interface for the archivists
- Tagging names in creator field:
- Corinne will test the tagging of names in the creator column. If it works out, we can simplify spreadsheets going forward.
- Mary will check the relator terms list for new audio spreadsheet terms.
- Be aware that if you use a relator term that we've not used before, the relator terms file in Administrative/scripts/Metadata/makeMods/ will need to be updated appropriately. Check with Mary or Vanessa or Jody.
- Subject location:
- Geographic locations (not part of a larger subject) that are currently placed in LCSH should be extracted & reformatted into TGN for subject location, and then tagged for HierarchicalGeographic.
- Celeste is reviewing a test of a script to automate most of the tagging; if it looks helpful, perhaps someone will modify it to make it easily usable for other spreadsheets.
- We may have to figure out how to support local subject locations as well as TGN. Suggestions on how to implement?
- Check with Mary or Vanessa if you have questions about what to put in this field, or what format it should be.
- Corinne is working with Kate and Will to develop a way for us to highlight different collections each month on the front page of Acumen
2) Nicknames:
- Input Guidelines recommend the nickname be placed in parentheses following the first name. There was discussion about removing them from the MODS and only keeping them as synonyms in Acumen, but then when we change systems, it will not be easy to reconnect the nicknames with the original names. We decided to keep them in the MODS.
- Synonyms to be added to Acumen should be gathered and submitted no more often than every 3 months, due to the cost of time for implementation by the web programmer.
3) One-on-One metadata training:
- Mary would like to provide one-on-one metadata reviews and training for anyone creating or modifying metadata. After discussion, we decided every-other-week meetings might be best at first. We agreed to try this and report back on how helpful this is, and if there are suggestions that will improve this approach. Mary will set up the meetings.
4) 5 subjects a day:
- Remediation of the old subjects has fallen by the wayside; only Vanessa has been actively involved (apart from the names as subjects? That went to Mary). Vanessa suggested we try repairing 5 a day and Corinne and Claire volunteered.
5) Perkins Problem:
- Finding aid entries for Perkins Photos are problematic from 249-308, and potentially we are missing items 309-409. An illustrated letter is part of the problem. Jody asked for a volunteer to help sort out the issues, and finding none, is drafting Alissa to assist (since she was absent).
6) Wiki findability:
- Corinne pointed out that the search box is not terribly helpful. Jody suggested we build index pages for the links we use most, and that we coordinate. Either we have our own resource pages under Employee Resources with the links we use personally, or we can group them by type, such as metadata or digitization. Please coordinate…
7) Project Management Software:
- Nothing is cast in stone. We're still exploring the extent to which project management software is useful. Jody hopes it will keep us from forgetting projects, and help track who's doing what. It's up to us at this point how much we need to use it, though at some point there will be some requirements for project reporting. Please review Asana and see what you think, if you have time.
8) Management style and team approach:
- Everyone brings different strengths and weaknesses to the table, different perspectives and ideas. We can accomplish more together than anyone can alone. Everyone is deserving of consideration and respect. Please share your expertise and your ideas for how we can improve, and seek to learn whatever will help us move forward as a team.
Metadata & DS 5/24/16
1) Names with nicknames: should be added to the MADS database like so, if not in VIAF: lastName, firstName (nickname)
2) XSL work: We need XSL modified to display hierarchicalGeographic tags and incorporate them into OAI. Corinne volunteered to help Vanessa, and Jody will support as needed.
3) What's a batch? At this point, a batch reflects 6-800 scans, so limited because of the time spent in quality control during digitization. It is no longer constrained by metadata. Those remediating metadata do NOT need to separate spreadsheets into batches that match previous batches; but they DO need to name their spreadsheet exports with batch numbers that FOLLOW all existing batch numbers, to avoid overwriting what's in the archive.
4) Columns vs. Tagging: After discussion, we agreed that if separating something out (subject parts, name roles, etc.) requires more than 2-4 columns in the spreadsheet, we'd rather tag the entries and simplify the spreadsheet.
5) Tagging names: (since we have multiple columns for names now, by role)
- Vanessa will update the relator terms list in Administrative/scripts/makeMods to include all name columns besides creator
- Tagging instructions will be updated in the wiki
- Jody will modify makeMods to support tagging of names, so they need only be entered in the Creator(s) column.
- Everyone will test
Potentially we can then simplify our spreadsheets moving forward (fewer columns) 6) Subject Locations, geographic subjects, and Roland Harper Photos
- Those creating/modifying metadata will start entering geographic subjects in the Subject Location(s) column in TGN format instead of in the LCSH Subjects column – and will tag them for HierarchicalGeographic, so they can be used in faceting.
- Jody will send Vanessa her current understanding of the difference between area and region, and she will research and share final decisions with the group, so we can be consistent in tagging
- Jody will modify a script used to test automation of geographic subjects into hierarchicalGeographic to generate modified subject Location entries for the Roland Harper Photos
- Claire, Celeste, and possibly others will review and correct these (to avoid having to do them all by hand)
- Claire has volunteered to help Celeste with the Roland Harper Photos (other volunteers welcome!!)
7) Logs: If the metadata is already completed: if digitizing a large collection or batch, please add the log information onto the metadata spreadsheet, then export when done. For small ones, just use the log template located in the Templates directory (S:\\Digital Projects\Administrative\Templates)
8) Metadata creators setup:
- Alissa and Claire will add a collection ID column to the Queue page of the Selection spreadsheet.
- Metadata creators moving entry from "in Process" to the Queue page will add a collection ID.
- Vanessa will start a wiki page on the process of collection setup, which Corinne will review (I hope) so we can have clear, agreed-upon instructions.
- Claire and Alissa will work on getting at least part of the database/setup script ready for use
- Claire will add instructions for use to the wiki and share with people
- Corinne will teach people about collection XML and collection setup. If you're creating metadata and don't know this: connect with Corinne.
9) Based on our discussion today, here's my proposed goals for us for June:
- Complete Wade Hall Red Carpet Request
- Continue donor letter digitization Red Carpet Request
- Complete Wiggins Red Carpet Request
- Finalize workflow/database script in Perl
- Complete 6-month reviews for new staff