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 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 updat...

      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...

       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 sp...

     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...

     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.     With the conclusion of my second week, the similarities between what I am doing in my current internship and what I did with RICHES in 2023 is very evident. This week I spent most my time working on making a transcript and A/V log of an oral history that was done by the cemetery. To begin, I looked back at my previous correspondence with Geoffrey Cravero when I worked at RICHES. The transcripts that I will be working on for the Greenwood Cemetery are ultimately going to be added into the RICHES database. Looking back at my...

         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 begin a new internship. 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.     With my new internship, I will be working under another UCF Master's student, Sarah Boye, and will be assisting her with processing data from a recent History Harvest. This data includes oral histories, scanned documents, newspapers, and more. Much of this data will be inputted to the UCF RICHES digital collection. Coincidentally, my previous internship during my undergraduate (which I also have a blog about) was with RICHES, so I am pretty familiar with the different assignments that I will be dealing with this semester.     To talk...