Today was my first day of work with Dr. Murphy! There was a lot of information to take in and I know that this work is going to challenge me but I am looking forward to it. I will learn a lot from Dr. Murphy and I can't wait to dive into my assignments. Today we went over the basic information of what I will be doing while I am here. Dr. Murphy showed me the different tools that I will be using on the web to take records of Irish author, Frank O'Connor, and digitize them on the website headed by UCC staff. The technological component of my work is all new information for me and I think that it is going to be very beneficial. Today I learned about TEI or Text Encoding Initiative and how different texts are encoded to be put on the Internet. I also learned about Mark up Languages and was surprised to discover that the most common Standard Generalized Markup Language is HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). I never knew what HTML was or its significance until now. Dr. Murphy was fantastic, as always, and tomorrow we are going to begin working on the Frank O'Connor project.
Until Then...
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