Nathan Gregg's Spring 2026 Internship Blog

     Hello again! Welcome to Week Eleven of my Spring 2026 internship with the New Smyrna Beach Newspaper Digitization Team at UCF's Center for Humanities and Digital Research. This week, we continued scanning the 1958-59 edition of The Pelican , and we are just a few issues away from completing it. Dylan and Jack both came in on Monday and were able to get over a hundred scans done, but as usual, I didn't come into the office until Tuesday after my class. As I was close to finalizing my organizational "To Do List" of things to fix with the uploaded scans before the end of the semester, I continued to work on that. By the end of the day, I had finalized the list, and I now have a master list of every file that needs renumbering, renaming, reuploaded image files, etc. Not only was I quite happy to have everything written down and organized, but I was surprised by how many issues I had already fixed and just forgotten to cross off. As of now, I'm hopeful that the re...

Hello! Welcome to Week Nine of my Spring 2026 internship with the New Smyrna Beach Newspaper Digitization Team at UCF's Center for Humanities and Digital Research. This past week we continued our work of scanning the 1958-1959 edition of The Pelican . However, because CHDR was holding all day events on both Thursday and Friday, myself and the other team members knew we would only have Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to scan. Since I've been doing a lot more organizational work for the project, I was excited to do some scanning after my class on Tuesday. However, I had forgotten the Veterans Legacy Program was having their weekly noon meeting in CHDR, and so I decided to just work on uploading some missing scans instead. While I'm sure it would not have been a big deal for me to scan, I really want to make sure any missing files are uploaded as quickly as possible, as its easy for these things to get lost in the long list of project tasks ( I also didn't want to disturb ...

  Hello! Welcome to Week Eight of my Spring 2026 internship with the New Smyrna Beach Newspaper Digitization Team at UCF's Center for Humanities and Digital Research. This week we finished the scanning for the 1957-1958 edition of The Pelican , and on Thursday, Dylan began the scanning of the 1958-1959 edition. While I don't remember the exact years we have left to scan (several of the 1960s editions are missing), I believe we are more than three quarters of the way through so I'm excited to get them all finished. When I came in on later that day and checked the Microsoft Teams account I noticed the uploads had mistakenly been named as belonging to the 1957-58 edition. While this is a fairly minor issue, I've been increasingly worried about how future teams will be able to make use of our work, and if these image files ever needed to be moved some place else, they could easily end up in the wrong place. Furthermore, I don't know if I'll be able to continue worki...