Chris and I were scheduled to met with Tiffany Adrain again this morning to touch base about where we were in terms of metadata. As Mark explained it last week, our job is to look at the metadata in more broad terms, given our lack of geoscience knowledge. Over the course of last week we filled in the metadata categories the best we could, given we were working with a limited number of defined categories like the original labels written by Glenister and some additional classification made explicit by Ms. Adrain. We also made a trip to archives last week to see if we could dig up some background information on Glenister's research, perhaps in the form of articles or training notes. According to David McCartney, university archivist, special collections has some 27 square feet of boxes filled with Glenister material that has yet to be cataloged. Going through the first box of material gave me a better appreciation for the detph and considerable impact Dr. Glenister has had in his respective field. Additionally, the man is seriously well traveled, as indicated by the correspondence that is documented in some of his archive material. I do hope I have a chance to meet with him at some point, if only to get a better sense of who he is. This week Chris and I planning to finish uploading the first batch of slides. Depending on the lag time between finishing that job and when Tiffany sends us more metadata, we may talk to Mark about starting or helping out on another job.
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