P.R.I.N.T Summer Internship

 This week I was out of state to visit schools in DC and Baltimore. While I was away Brook led assessment 2 for the research team on Tuesday's team meeting. Based off the answers for assessment 2 the researchers had a better time filling out mentions: This assessment took about 11 1/2 minutes to complete which I am assuming is because it was a longer excerpt with multiple mentions. Brook informed me that the team suggested we all do a mention together on the whiteboard which I agreed as it can be beneficial in my goal in creating an open, collaborative environment. During the next team meeting I will share results of the assessment while providing answers given to me before hand by Casey Wolf, who is one of the experts on mentions. On Monday (6/24/2024) I will be meeting with the tech team to do a practice run-through of the assessment for Tuesday. I hope I will receive constructive feedback as this team spends more time with mentions than I do.

This week I started my research for PRINT quality assurance plan. I designed a Microsoft Form for the PRINT team to fill out during our weekly meeting. Quality assurance comes with trial and error and this week I faced my first error. The image below is what the form looked like: The researchers had issues completing the form due to the briefness of the except. They asked that I use a more detailed excerpt instead. So, this week with the help of Casey, I created a new form for them to complete for next weeks meeting. Here is what the new form looks like: As you can see there is more mentions to pull from this letter. It will be interesting to see what the researchers will notice, as they are only allowed to document one mention. I will be saving each answers from the forms and reviewing them with the researchers the following week. I also will be developing metrics as I progress in my internship. These Microsoft Forms will be important in finding agreements and disagreements among rese...

This week I was out-of-town for vacation but worked remotely for PRINT. I started my week off with a meeting with Brook, Dr. Beiler, and Casey. The first half of the meeting was dedicated to updates on the HSP database which I will be working with Casey on updating to new PRINT protocols. This process will take a while as there are over 500 entries in EndNote that need to be updated. EndNote is the database in which PRINT's repositories are located. I will be primarily working with the Pemberton papers and will need to familiarize myself with Phineas Pemberton's handwriting. Below is an example of his penmanship: Since Casey and I will be working on this project together I will be able to learn from her experience while annotating letters to the best of my ability. The second half of the meeting was dedicated to a Q&A with Brook on two readings on Inter Annotator Agreement. Brook and I went over the main ideas of the articles and what we thought was important to implement i...