The Project Explained

In this post, I wish to introduce and discuss a personal project I intend to complete over the coming months. This project involves the digitization, organization, and presentation of academic works, notes, and materials I produced and collected during my last year at Steinbach Regional Secondary School, my Bachelor of Arts at the University of Manitoba, and my Masters of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. Over the course of my educational path I have accrued thousands of papers. While it is unlikely I will need to consult every paper again, I wish to keep a record for future reference. My yearning to digitize the materials described above stems from my desire to minimize my physical footprint; an increasingly important desire in my life and a desire that has become increasingly difficult to practice as the amount of stuff I own decreases (i.e. I have already grasped the low-hanging fruit). Some other motivations for taking on the above project include a desire to practice developing a custom digitization plan, provide easy access to materials should I ever need them in the future, and blog about something of potential relevance to other information professionals.

For this project I intend to periodically blog about my progress and major steps. The major steps are as follows:

1. Project explanation and reasons for taking on project (i.e. this post). 
   
2. App and equipment selection, testing, and reasoning behind selection. 
   
3. Organization plan with discussion of choice of metadata.  
   
4. Personal experience at beginning of digitization process. 
   
5. Personal experience at end of project.