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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
Using Github
Pull and push files at the beginning and end of every session with outputs.

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.

Using Github

Pull and push files at the beginning and end of every session with outputs.

Anytime you work in the outputs repository, you must synchronize the local repository with the remote one before you start, to be sure you have the current version. When you finish with it, synchronize everything again, so the next person has the current version.

At the start of every session:
1. Open GitHub Desktop using the icon on the taskbar.
2. Select Fetch origin to synchronize your local copy with the online one.
At the end of every session:
1. Open GitHub Desktop.
  The changes you made to any files appear in the Changes window.
2. Add a summary describing your changes, such as "Output docx for eb11-a04".
3. Select Commit to master to add the changes to the local repository.
4. Click the Push origin button to upload your new files to the online repository.