I completed a few tasks during my last week with the internship. One of the major activities during the week was to connect with Yuan Ling, the RDA intern who is working on policy for the Metadata Standards Directory. We talked a little about what I did over the summer Continue reading Week Ten, Last Blog
GitHubโs free memberships are often used to host open source projects. This feature is valuable to the Metadata Standard Directory, not only because the project can be hosted for free, but because GitHub allows contributors to collaborate freely with each other as well as the sites administrators, who are limited Continue reading Week Nine /GitHub Guide
As my summer with DataOne is coming to a close, I am focusing on creating a GitHub contribution instruction guide for the RDA Metadata Standard Directory page. I am also working on identifying metadata standard uses. This past week, I have worked to identify the best ways to address metadata Continue reading Week Eight
This week was spent working on the GitHub page. I also read and reviewed a few online tutorials regarding Jekyll which changes the template on GitHub. I am working remotely with my mentors, but I had the good fortune of being in New Mexico this weekend, and had the opportunity Continue reading Week Seven
I spent part of this week continuing work on the Metadata Standard GitHub page. During the last six weeks I have updated and edited the page due to broken links. I have also changed some of the wording on the landing page. I also spent part of the week reading Continue reading Week Six
This week my weekly goals included developing a standardized use case template and working with the github metadata directory page. I have never written or worked with use cases, so the first step in this process for me was to do my homework. I did some light reading to familiarize Continue reading Week Five
I spent most of last week working with the Metadata Standards Directory page on GitHub. Last week I noticed that some of the links to use cases and the standards themselves were out-of-date. I spent part of the week going over all the links on the page and updating as Continue reading Week Four
I spent this week familiarizing myself with GitHub and Git Bash. I had a short introduction to both with Sean Chen, who created the Metadata Directory Github page. It was completely new to me so, even though I had a short tutorial with Sean, It took me a few days, Continue reading Week Three
I spent most of this week preparing for the Research Data Alliance (RDA) US Summer Intern Meeting. The meeting was held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana on Thursday and Friday. I was incredibly surprised at the amount of reading that was assigned before the meeting. I was very grateful Continue reading Week Two
Week One is well on its way for the Metadata Directory project. I’ve spent my first day getting to know my mentors as well as aspects of the directory that I will be working on. Former project intern, Sean Chen spent some time going over the github version of the Continue reading Week One