Fall 2024: Greenwood Cemetery

      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

       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

     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 much of the same as last week. A few of the problems I have ran into with the this transcript include using the correct pronunciations, such as when someone says "uh" in the middle of the sentence, making sure that proper nouns are spelled correctly and doing quick additional research outside of the oral history to make sure they are accurate when I can, as well as differentiating when to add verbs. For example, if X person is talking and Y person laughs, you are supposed to put Y: [laughs] and continue X's parag