CSIA Archive Project

  I am now scanning the donated notebooks, printing them out, and resizing the file for better readability. Starting with Lee. JH's AP Calculus notebook (the very first data I put into the archive), I'm now scanning AP physics notebook. The process goes like this:

1. get donation from seniors

2. classify the notebooks by subjects

3. scan the notebooks in library

4. mail the image files to my laptop (I wanted to use pdf format, but the pencil traces were not well scanned in pdf, so I'm now trying tiff format)

5. resize and rotate the images files

6. print the files out

7. retouch the blurry letters

8. scan the retouched image files again

9. modify the contrast in photoshop

10. upload in the website

  It takes approximately 4 hours to clone notebook into perfect web files. Though, it doesn't really bother me. Now, I just feel like one historian who excavates the carcasses buried in mud and carefully dusts the soil-coat from the skulls. Fascinating, I say.