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Week 11: Abode Acrobatics

    Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     This week tested my patience the most out of any week thus far. In previous weeks, I had been less productive from things that were somewhat out of my control, but I could still find ways around. For example, when I was dealing with health issues, there was still moments where I could get up and do a little bit of transcription work before I fell back asleep or laid back down. Still being a bit productive even in a bad situation.     This week was different. As a UCF student, I get access to a lot of programs and software that help me with my s
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Week 10: A/V Log

    Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.   This week, I needed to pivot away from the transcription I had been working on. After working on it for a few weeks, granted with many breaks in between, it is hard to keep going back to just doing the same task. Instead, I decided that I wanted to work on the A/V Log for the oral history instead.    From my experience before in RICHES, the A/V Log and Transcription were in the same document. The Greenwood cemetery template also has a similar design to RICHES template where there is space for topics and timestamps to go, but their is also another
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Week 8/9: Post-Milton and Presentation

     Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     Here I am two weeks after I said I will not be late against on one of the internship posts. This time, it is not my fault! As I mentioned in my last post, Florida was hit by Hurricane Milton. For some parts of the state, especially the area I grew up in in Tampa Bay, there was pretty devastating damage. However, I am relieved that my family and UCF/Orlando was spared from a lot of long-lasting damages.     My last post I also mentioned that I would be heading to South Carolina, which I did end up doing. The traffic from Orlando to Santee, Sout
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Week 7: Presentation and Hurricane Milton

     Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     This is (hopefully) the last week that I will be behind on one of these updates for the semester. I waited a little bit longer to have something to update on since my previous blogpost was so late into the week. I should be able to more steadily provide meaningful updates from here on out.     One of the major hurdles, however, is the impending hurricane that is supposed to hit Central Florida. As a UCF student, we have already been advised that school will be closed from Tuesday (10/8) to Thursday (10/10). Having been through the destruction
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Week 6: Sickness

     Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     This is a long overdue update for my work in Greenwood. I have, again, had some unfortunate setbacks that have gotten in the way of me to finishing the transcript. I have been sick since Monday night on 9/23. I started with a fever and a migraine headache that turned into a bad ear infection where I lost almost all hearing in my right ear. This mixed with hurricane prep and the actual hurricane hitting has led to multiple set backs.      To vent a little bit about my health problems in lieu of an actual update, I am still having complications
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Week 5: One Last Set Back

      Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     This week, I did not get done as much as I would have liked. My goal was to finish the transcription this week, finish up with some of the minor details that needed to be fixed, such as adding indicators and time stamps when major topics are being brought forwards, and to begin the editing process. I was hoping that next week I would finish with the transcript completely, editing and all, and devote the rest of my time to finishing the metadata sheet on the transcript.     In my mind, the metadata should not take too much time. The goal for n
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Week 4: Finalizing Transcript and Beyond

       Hello, my name is Hiram Davila. I am in my second year at UCF in the History Master's program, and I am extremely excited to share some information about my internship this semester. My current research interests regard the early modern Spanish Empire, particularly the Spanish Inquisition. This blog will be acting as my journal week-by-week as I intern with the city of Orlando and Greenwood Cemetery throughout the Fall 2024 semester.     This week, not much has changed in my assignment that I can report on. I am still running into the same difficulties that I talked about in my blog post last week and in my blog post from my time with RICHES back in 2023. To briefly add, however, the AI that has been assisting me through SharePoint has been getting progressively better as the interview has gone on. This has been the longest oral history I have transcribed, so the AI's assistance is much appreciated. What I have noticed is that when the interviewee speaks with less microp
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