When entering the digital pipeline, the theoretical flow of a document is the following:
00-Content Discovery-Copyright
01-Scan
02-Rtf Prep
Rtf Prep Done
03-Proof 1
04-Proof 2
MechGens
Website
Other places documents may end up:
• Missing Pages and Issues.
• Any random folder an operator creates at one of the various stops as a holding tank.
• On the website but not appearing, because something was wrong/missing and no one noticed or because there’s some error that we cannot resolve.
General Descriptions
00-Content Discovery-Copyright
• This is where Stephen picks an item, decides if we can/should use it, and assigns a number.
01-Scan
• Where an item is scanned in to the computer. One of the most crucial steps.
• Also where OCR takes place.
01-Scan\00Done
• Where the PDF is checked again for quality control before being passed on to RTFPrep
02-Rtf Prep
• Where a mechanized process cleans up the RTF and PDF that have come out of the OCR process.
Rtf Prep Done
• The holding tank for Proof 1
03-Proof 1
Where the RTF is shaped to look like the PDF.
• Cut and Subhead tags are added
• Missing words are typed in
• General cleanup as needed
• Greek and Hebrew are changed from gibberish to actual characters
• Paragraph breaks are added/removed as needed
04-Proof 2
Where the RTF finishes its transformation
• The different parts of the document are styled
— Title, author, articles, subheads, bold/italics, poems, article authors
• Table of Contents check
• General cleanup as needed
— Blatant errors, F&R of mass errors, “’`- generally fixed
— Scroll-through for errors
• Italics/Bolding added in
• UV checked for Author, Collection, Edited, Doer, Kind
MechGens
The vehicle through which the document gets numbers and arrives at the website
• Assign Articles
• Gen Web Resources
Website
Check to see that the document is
• Live
• On the author page
• Formatting correctly
References, Commentary, Quotes, Author, Poetry marked in UV
• Checked a day later to see if it’s appearing on the correct reference/commentary page