1. Dominic Bordelon and Adam St.Pierre

2.  Based upon The Advocate Obituary Index  Obtained obituaries from microfilm to make full-text searchable records  Could be expounded upon for genealogical researchers

4.  Content is structured around the image of the obituary itself with relevant metadata o Metadata with Dublin Core Elements Title (Matching the title of the obituary) Subject (subject of the obituary including birth and death dates) Date (of printing) Description (full-text of obituary) Format (image file format)

5.  A Scanpro 2000 was utilized for PDF creation from microfilm reels OCR was not available with the Scanpro software  Scanpro allowed for some contrast, brightness, and grayscale adjustment

6.  PDF files were imported to Photoshop for careful adjustment  Access images were created at 72 ppi as JPEGs

7.  JPEGs were put into the Project Client and DC metadata was added  Our planned refinements of the date and relation properties were not allowed despite the possibility of adding fields

10.  For the purpose of this project sources contacted stated this was fair use  Many of the obituaries are now defunct  If EBRPL decides to continue this project however a lawyer must be contacted

11.  We gained a practical understanding of the a digitization project  Coped with technical and copyright issues  And provided a path for the continuation of this digitization effort