Unit 3 - Class Commentary

I am really excited about this semester's objective. I love the idea of installing multiple content management systems and experimenting with them as digital libraries and archives. In my experience, investigating, evaluating, testing, and selecting software is such a huge part of the responsibilities as a Digital Archivist. This is a great opportunity to get more experience with software I have not had the chance to explore before. In terms of the tech assignment, I actually wish there were a lot less reading and writing and more hands-on experimentation with the VM, MySQL, and the different software systems. In particular, it seems like two discussion assignments a week is unnecessary. The management portion of the course also doesn't feel integrated at all with the tech assignments.