Last Friday night, our Hoccleve Archive team has presented our work at the SAMLA Conference held at Marriott Hotel, Buck head. The theme of this year’s conference was sustainability and our team has put in efforts to highlight the work we have done suiting the theme. It felt good meeting up people from different parts of the country. Everyone were very passionate about their works and were equally attentive to the other presentations. We have also got books and other publications for a good discounted price at the conference. Overall, it has been a memorable experience to be present at a prestigious conference like SAMLA.

 

 

This week, we also had a meeting regarding the Almanac Archive project with Lindsay Jane Eckert and Julia Grandson. We were briefed on the design part on what the team has been expecting from us. We have given them the option of choosing a platform for developing their design and explained the pros and cons of each of the platform. At the end of the meeting, we have finally decided to go ahead with the ASP.Net architecture and decided to use MS SQL Server for our database design. The team has also given us a

complete picture of the number of archives available now and how many more archives might be available in the coming future. All this has led us to discussing the scalability of the project. We now need to make sure that the developed application is scalable enough to accommodate all the archives that are going to be available to us in the near future. We decided to meet up for the next time to discuss regarding the updates of the development.

Meanwhile, we are currently getting completely busy with our projects and the other coursework. It is getting a little tough to manage the works in the SIF and our course works. Hopefully everything will go well and we will be able to complete our works on
time meeting all the requirements of the concerned.