NSMoHxCHDR Newspaper Digitization Project: Week Nine (3/14/2026)

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 the VLP tean with the flashing lights of the scanner). The missing scans themselves were some that hadn't gone through the week previous, and this is just because Microsoft Teams can often makes errors when uploading a large number of files. However, typically if you close the site and retry it almost always works without issue. The upload seemed to be going fine, but when it finished, Teams informed me that 31 scans still had not been uploaded, and upon trying again they still would not go through. I looked up the error message it gave me and some Microsoft teams users had reported seeing the same error message after hitting the storage quota for their project's Teams account. Since I had expected us to meet our 5 TB storage quota before the semester was over, I emailed Dr. Shier and let him know we would likely need more storage. Somewhat confusingly, Dr. Shier informed me that we were still far from meeting the quota and suggested I try the upload again. And of course, the third time was the charm and they all uploaded without issue. I let the others know about the issue and Dylan and I decided that in the future we'll do the Teams' upload in two batches to avoid this issue popping up again. While I was a little embarrassed to have emailed Dr. Shier about such a simple issue, I was mostly relieved the project wasn't going to be delayed by the storage quota issue. After wrapping up on Tuesday I saw Sebastian Garcia, a member of the VLP team and congratulated him on the first episode of his and John Lancaster's newly released podcast, "The Memory of Negro Fort." I had actually been listening to it as I worked that day so it was cool to get to briefly talk to him about it.

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