Another week spent primarily on infrastructure -- but at least now it's very specific infrastructure ...
I met with my classmates and professor (virtually) on Friday the 10th, and then with my site supervisor (also virtually) the morning after. Both meetings went well. As a point of reference, and safeguard -- in case I'd forgotten or misunderstood some key aspect of the process -- I created a Detailed Steps List. This list explains each step necessary to get from start to finish for each of my four objectives: from proposal to outcome. My supervisor approved the List, but we're both certain that revisions and refinements will be necessary as we get deeper into the project itself. If the revisions are significant, I'll post them in this log as well.
One of the biggest benefits of creating such a list is that it makes detailed timeline-building so much easier! Even so though, I spent several hours moving things around from one week to the next, trying to find the most humane, logical and practical combination ... first trying to guess how much time would be too little, then how much would be too much and then settling for a sweet-spot in between. I'm pretty satisfied with the result, but I'm hesitant to post my detailed timeline here. Probably because there are so many different variables that are still unknown. For instance, I haven't yet seen the postcard scans that I'll catalog, or the schema/controlled vocabulary I'll use, so it was difficult to estimate how many items I would catalog a week, or how many weeks I would set aside for cataloging. That's just one example, but there were several other similar question marks.
If you'd like to get a general idea of what my detailed timeline looks like, then simply mash the Detailed Steps list above with the Brief Timeline graph below, and then adjust for such things as a friend's wedding, several birthdays, several family/friend obligations, and full time employment.
... it will be a busy 12 weeks!
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