Unit 13: Semester Summary

I feel like this is not a good time for me to write a commentary on the semester as a whole. Given all the technical problems I have had with EPrints and now Protege, I feel like I am ending the semester on a really negative note. Even when I finally get things to work, I rarely understand why they weren't working to begin with. It makes me question whether this is really a good use of my time, knowing that at none of the several institutions I have worked at as a professional Archivist would I ever be the person to be doing these installs and system configurations. There has always been at least one IT person on staff whose responsibility the system installation and configuration would be. I would be responsible for implementing the system, writing documentation, and training other staff on how to use it, but not these technical backend tasks that I don't really understand. I have by far spent more hours doing repeated system installs and troubleshooting than I have been able to spend actually experimenting within the repositories themselves, which is the portion that would actually inform my job. So many more hours could have been spent really exploring what these systems are capable of doing. Hopefully, I will be able to come back to these repositories and test them out more in the future after the course is over...