While at the Oberlin archives our group, with the assistance of Tim and Devon (two graduate students from Western) and the assistant archivist, documented the Hiram Wilson letters. We photographed the letters directly onto the computer so they could be taken at a higher resolution. This would help to preserve the integrity of the letters and allow us to look at them more closely without losing anything or the image becoming too pixelated. It will be the job of the class to improve the quality of the image and crop it to size so they can be uploaded onto the project website upon its completion. We will also be transcribing the letters in order to provide a text version beneath the uploaded image. We were instructed on using the archive’s database in order to gain access to related information as well.
On the main floor of the library we were able to use the Oberlin library website to use databases we do not have access to through Western. Our group researched Hiram Wilson and emailed ourselves the information. By doing this we will be able to continue using this information throughout the progress of the project. Members of the group have been uploading the research they found to a secure wiki page so we may all utilize the information that we amassed while in Oberlin.
The transcription process is in its beginning stages and shall be blogged about in the coming weeks.
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