This week we officially began our websites through omeka.net and began uploading images, with all their accompanying metadata. The metadata thing takes some getting used to. It is pretty tedious. Though it became progressively less so, as many of the fields (Source, Publisher, Rights etc) are the same from one item to the next. […]
Archive for March, 2014
A brief sketch of Marvin’s life
Marvin Bolton was born in 1840, the fifth of eight children in a large Michigan farming family. In 1860, at the age of twenty he was living on his parent’s farm and working as a servant. In 1861, he joined the Army as a part of the 1st Michigan Cavalry. On July 3rd, 1863, Marvin was […]
Passwords Etc.
This week in class we discussed passwords, internet security, and backing up our online content. Our discussion of passwords was somewhat thought provoking. I do use the same handful of words for multiple passwords, but they are kind of random words and I misspell them different ways for different sites, so taking that into account, […]