080817_Staff Training

We received training from Salt Lake on the El Paso Audit for newspaper editing this week.  It is the lead-in to WayPointing, preparing the newspapers for separating them into groups/batching for indexers to pull out articles.  El Paso has very few people to do the work so the ROCs are lending them a hand to get this all moving.  It is preparing the newspapers to be looked at, making sure they are square, readable, centered, they were cut right, no large areas of black showing...just making the newspapers usable for the batchers, mainly.  It takes a while to do them as there are about 1,000 images per film so we can only do a few before we need to turn them back in and someone else needs to finish them or we need to finish them after someone else started working on them.  I did manage to finish one but it took me two days.

Brother Hamp came down to assist as he is the Project Lead.  He introduced the topic and the training. 

 

Sister Stoddard did most of the training.  It lasted about 2 hours then we went back to our workstations and made an attempt at working on the project.  Got all set up and started working on things.  It didn't take too long before we had lots of specific questions and they both answered them easily.  As we worked through issues we realized there still are a lot of things that are not completely ironed out yet.  This is still in kind of a "beta" stage and we're kind of "beta" testers.  But, it's a lot farther along than the other two ROCs that are working with it.  WE had additional training, sort of a 2nd stage of training, the next day for another hour then they turned us loose.  They were so impressed with our progress they left on Wednesday after 2 days saying we didn't need for them to be here anymore.  It's a long drive back to Salt Lake....

 

Basically, the screen looks like this.  The page is listed on the left.  It's the one thin blue line in the middle.  This one has a red line around it because I am clipping or "cropping out" all of the bad stuff on the edges.  The column on the right gives me my options as to what I can do with this image.

  

This is a two page layout, an A and B page, that I had to make into a single page layout because it was skewed crooked and needed to be straightened out then re-split again.  Sometimes the people taking the pictures cut the pictures off to one side and I get to "fix" their picts or correct them in some other manner.  We can't always do that but we try to when we can.  When you do Zoning, you're doing these kinds of newspapers that we are preparing that will eventually be going to indexers.

 

This is Sister Stoddard helping Sister Mart install the El Paso Audit Program on her PC.  She's doing the initial discussion on what to expect and how to get it all set up and running right.  It takes a little while to get it all configured but once it's setup, it's pretty easy to get back in and do the work.  We are to put in 2 hours per day on the project.  They have 110, 000, 000 film pages to audit.  That is a lot to do.  It's going to take years to get done.  I'm betting there will be many more.  More stuff to follow...