1. A Funny xxThing Happened on the Way to Digital Commons Colby’s Muddy Detour Through WordPress

2. How we Got into This Mess In the First Place

3. Divide and Conquer

5. Conquering the Questing Beast

6. Version 0.1 Death by a Thousand Cuts 1001 tags/categories 2000+ objects/tasks Initial objects per poem: Audio 3 notebook pages 3 overlays 3 transcripts Published poem 3 side-by-sides

7. Lions and Tigers and Bears…Oh My! The Metadata Conundrum (Erin)

8. Version 0.2 Slash and Burn Reduction of the number of metadata records Creation of Object and Cluster templates Interface re- design

9. Lions and Tigers and Bears…Oh My! ??

10. Version 0.3 Liposuction Codification of functions of Posts vs. Pages Reduction of tags and categories Elimination of Side-by- Side objects

11. Lions and Tigers and Bears…Oh My! ??

12. Version 0.4 Teaching vs. Digital Commons Clusters Elimination of Transcript objects Standardization of streamlined cluster template

13. Lions and Tigers and Bears…Oh My! The Long Ride Home (Mel)

15. Special Collections WordPress Site 42 Teaching Poem Clusters 1 Audio 1 Published Poem 3 Notebook Pages 3 Transcript Overlays 1 Read & Listen display 5 Digital Commons Poem Clusters 1 Audio 1 Published Poem 3 Notebook Pages 3 Transcript Overlays 1 Audio Metadata 3 Metadata Notebook Pages 3 Metadata Transcript Overlays 1 Metadata Published Poem 42 Audio-Only Teaching Clusters

17. The Players in our Little Story Wes McNair Our Muse Pat Burdick Collection Expert Erin Rhodes Dublin Core Expert Mel Regnell Techno-Geek Jack ?? Scribe Roy Reed Image Editor

18. For More Information Contact: Pat Burdick Colby College Special Collections 5150 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901 207 – 859 – 5150 speccoll@colby.edu speccoll@colby.edu