I've made us each a separate spreadsheet in the dropbox folders for each of us. We had multiple versions of the combined spreadsheet in dropbox yesterday and I was worried about loosing data becasue more than one of us is making changes at the same time.

I've also updated the tags in each spreadsheet. I think that the tags should be thematic rather than descriptive of the document. For example, I've removed photograph and document. That information should be in the description section. I'm envisioning that the tags will be used to organize the archive. So students will follow from one document to the next via a tag. A student may want to follow the Oak Bay connection from one photo to the next but isn't likely to follow a connection between two photos because they are both photos.

If you are adding new tags to your sheet, think about the scope. For example, I've used religion rather than church to keep the number of tags to a manageable size. I will give everyone time to visit a few archives and add some documents, so that we can see if we need to add more tags, and in a week or two we can finalize the list.

In the meantime, if you add new tags to your sheet, please tell us in your blog post so that we can add it to our own sheets. I want to avoid losing data becasue there are multiple people working on the same sheet. Kirsten and I have been discussing more descriptive military tags and she will have those for us soon.

Don't feel like you have to fill in all 4 tags. The spaces are there in case you need them, but aren't all necessary.

I've also been talking with Special Collections and library administration about the possibility of using their equipment to digitize documents that some of the municipal archives are unable to digitize. I would like to hear back about this before the meeting I am planning with the archivists from the municipal archives in two weeks.

We've set a tentative date and time to meet with the archives as June 12 at 10am. I'll be calling the archives tomorrow to invite them and arranging for the room.

I joined Ben and Hannah at the Catholic Legacies conference in the afternoon for a tour of the St. Ann's Archives. It was great to meet their archivist Carey and I also spoke with the chair of the Friends of the Sisters of St. Ann's Academy, who said that she would be happy to help us in anyway she can. I will send her an email tomorrow morning explaining a bit more about the project.

This evening and tomorrow morning I will be working on defining my 2 themes for the website so that I will have them to discuss at the meeting on Monday.

*The hours are for today and for the few hours I will work tomorrow morning. I am working for the Congress for the next week so I won't be working on the project much. I will keep up with reading the blog and feel free to contact me with an questions or concerns you have.