The TDPS archive project, while still in planning, has had some pretty significant progress this semester. A new avenue for hosting our pictures has opened through Digital Grinnell, and if we decide to commit to that route, we can start gathering our digital materials to send into it. There are still some questions regarding the creation of a separate site using Omeka to display the TDPS specific collection, as well as next steps for sending materials to DG. We talked about getting access to the library subscription of Omeka, with the only main downside being that we couldn’t edit themes or other visual aspects of our website, which I am fine with personally. I haven’t spoken to Kate and Erik about this just yet since we are still waiting on word from Mark McFate. I think my next steps would be to review Omeka and it’s page setups, so that if we do get access to a domain for the archive, we can work on how to display the content in a way that we think is feasible.
There is also the matter of digitizing the content that we do not have in the drive yet, mainly the show posters. We do have access to the scanners for them now, so scanning the posters is a task for me. I would need to sort through the posters in the recording studio before bringing them up to the offices to start scanning. I haven’t gotten around to it, but this will be my main goal after break.