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Production
Descriptions of OCR processing, TEI transformation, and metadata creation
Organization
How to keep hundreds of thousands of files organized.
Setting Up the Repositories
Create local copies of the remote repositories
Install Github Desktop
Set up GitHub to create the outputs repository on your machine.

Production
Descriptions of OCR processing, TEI transformation, and metadata creation
- Organization
  How to keep hundreds of thousands of files organized.
  - Edition-Section System
    File organization depends on two basic folder types
  - Folder names
    As the OCR workflow passes through its various stages, production moves into specific folders for each stage. Their names and contents are given below:
  - Repositories
    A guide to the different repositories used to store ocr-project data.
  - Setting Up the Repositories
    Create local copies of the remote repositories
    - Install Drive File Stream
      Add Drive File Stream to the computer for accessing the ebnn and metadata repositories.
    - Install Github Desktop
      Set up GitHub to create the outputs repository on your machine.
    - Using Github
      Pull and push files at the beginning and end of every session with outputs.
- Page Files
  Explains the procedures we use to get the best quality OCR of each page.
- Entry Files
  Procedures for converting single pages into Encyclopedia entries.
- Master Files
  After creating entry files, we run an automated metadata generation process to add index terms to each entry.

Install Github Desktop

Set up GitHub to create the outputs repository on your machine.

GitHub is a cloud hosting platform that we use to synchronize files among different users. You will need to create a free account at Github. For a good introduction to basic GitHub concepts, like branches, commits, and pull requests, review the Hello World tutorial.

If you see the GitHub icon in your taskbar, proceed to the next step. Otherwise, first download and install GitHub Desktop.
Clone the outputs repository to your supplied external hard drive.
1. In GitHub Desktop, open the File menu and select Clone repository ....
2. In the list that appears on the GitHub.com tab, select pm1951/outputs.
3. In the Local path box, enter the path to an empty outputs folder on your external hard disk drive, for example: E:\outputs.
  The outputs folder must be empty (including hidden files) for GitHub to create a new repository there.
4. Click Clone.
If it is not already there, add GitHub to the taskbar, for ease of access.
1. On the Windows Start menu, open the GitHub, Inc. folder, right-click GitHub Desktop, and select More > Pin to taskbar.