Loyal blog readers (and you unloyal ones – you know who you are) it is time for a change in regime. Every week for the past year I have been bringing you the news from Digital Initiatives. Next week you will be getting a new coop student, Alyssa, bringing the best behind the scenes look at what we do here.

For my last blog post I will share a bit of digitization humour using images from Open Collections of course. The jokes focus on what coop students do with the 96% of time they aren’t on social media– i.e. cleaning the data attached to all the content you access everyday on OpenCollections shared via our content online (read more about it here).

If you want to see the original images in all their glory, just click on the pictures!

First thing is first – there is always another metadata mountain to climb.

What digitizers talk about when you are not around.

The metadata bear – his work is never done.

The metadata bear doesn’t take unclean data well.

Learn more about digital preservation here!

Blogging for the Digitization Centre has been a blast for the past year, and I hope you enjoyed reading the posts! If not, don’t tell me. Tell the new coop student. She will be sure to avoid my mistakes.

Hope everyone has a great summer!

Hunting for metadata inaccuracies — the good fight never ends.