[Already] ’cause time is going so fucking fast. Happened that I got a migraine the same day, so had to take my first day of sick leave. Uuh, important factoid? Nah. Glazed eyes, with four monitors at the desk, workin’ for ‘the man’ 8-5 (with a chunk of extra hours already accrued), M-F, many days a year. Woe is me (as in Dürer’s Apokalypse argh). Life-time simply melts away. And though this is Life, it never seems so. Life is elsewhere, except when fully immersed in a natural system (could that be my, or someone else’s navel? s’pose so). Better yet, simply immersed in sensing the sky devoid of skyworms, the land devoid of vehicles, houses, and foot-prints, devoid of pathways, suffused with chaos, no invisible armature holding it all together, flying free.
Work: comprised of back-end organization of the CGS data-space. The digital data-space has had no comprehensive oversight or consistent management since the advent of the digital office itself. Terabytes of data has accumulated without regard to searching, utilization, or archiving. Of course, all this takes resources which the CGS hasn’t had much of. I have taken several small portions of that data-space and am intensively re-organizing them as consistent, searchable, and public-facing resources. As the organization exists to provide information to the public, it is essential that it has a work flow that proceeds from the professional geoscience research directly into formats that augment the public role. So, a key question is how to make that translation from scientific data and information to public information and knowledge.
Colorado Geological Survey website; bookstore; the new blog I just implemented; Twitter feed @COGeolSurvey; and Facebook page. Nothing active on Instagram as there is already a dearth of usable visual material. I am well into taking the entire website, bookstore, and blog situation (more than 2000 pages of stuff – GIS data, maps, reports, forms, publications, information, images, and some videos) and melding that into a single WordPress site that will piggyback on an in-progress web re-tooling that Mines is doing concurrently. File naming conventions, directory structures, metadata strategies, editing of texts and visuals, whilst implementing and monitoring a wide range of analytics to get accurate information about the 1-to-2-thousand visitors a day that the site gets. And so on.