Sunday, March 15, 2015

March 14, 2015

 Today was such a long day and it was almost entirely filled with working on my metadata presentation. It's getting a bit ridiculous. I originally decided to do the presentation because I didn't want to write the three to five page paper and worry about in-text citations and all that crap. And now I have spent almost two full days working on this freaking presentation. I could have knocked that paper out in an afternoon. I obviously made the wrong choice.

Despite all the work I put in today I still need to write a script and then record the presentation. I was going to just use my outline to speak from but after doing some practice runs today to see where I was at on time, I ended up just rambling and was obviously speaking out of my ass most of the time. So I'm going to take advantage of the fact that I'm recording the presentation, not giving it in front of the class, and fully write out what I'm going to say. And that script will probably end up being as long, if not longer, than the paper I should have written in the first place.

On the plus side, I've probably learned a lot more about PBCore making this presentation than I would have writing the paper. And I'm pretty happy with the overall look of my presentation. Also, the schema is written in XML and we had to provide an example of the elements but written in plain language. I did that using a table to show the elements and the values but I also decided to try out the XML. I have no idea if it is actually correct, and I think I made some of it up, but it looks pretty much like all the examples I have come across in my research.

Tonight, after finally finishing my reference list for my presentation, I decided to call it a night. I'm rewatching Sark's latest stream of Zombie Army Trilogy, and that inspired me to play the first game because that is the only one I have. I'm really not that great at any of the zombie games. Certainly not the CoD versions and the Sniper Elite version doesn't go much better, but it is fun getting the bullet-cams. I also briefly played Tera until I got in way over my head in a cathedral and died.


Tomorrow I will need to write my presentation script and then record it. I also need to go over to the old house to make sure I don't have anything left over there. Best case scenario, I will also be able to start working on my presentation for my other class. My goal had been to finish it by tomorrow but the due date got moved back so it won't be the end of the world if I can't get it done. We'll see what happens.

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