NSMoHxCHDR Newspaper Digitization Project: Week Eight (3/6/2026)

 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 working on this project past this semester, and if mistakes pile up I'm worried I will not be able to correct them all before my time is up. While I would typically go file by file and correct the mistake, I remembered that in the CaptureOne program we use to take the scans, you can rename all files at once. However, once I did this, the numbering for each file got set to 112 (this was the number for the final scan taken that day). Still I realized it was quicker to just renumber the files within the CaptureOne program, because since we upload both a TIFF and JPG version of each file to Teams, it doubles the amount of work. While I was pretty frustrated that I was unable to alter the file names without completely having to redo the numbering for each file, I was still happy to have found a slightly quicker solution for any future mistakes. Also, while I was doing some scanning for the 57-58 edition earlier that week, I had the opportunity to mess around more with the brightness, contrast, and exposure settings for the program, and I've gotten pretty good at figuring out the best settings to make the new type of paper appear clearer and brighter. I think in my future scans I'll preset these settings before I begin so that I can adjust these settings as I go along, rather than adjusting it manually for each scan after I finish cropping.

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