More about my new job

My new job is great, but it has taken a lot of time over the last weeks. I have been putting in long hours which have left no time for blogging.

My new job is working for Digital Divide Data (DDD) an international nonprofit. We provide digitization services, data entry, XML conversion and digital preservation needs of publishers, libraries, content hosts, academic researchers and businesses world-wide. The social mission is to provide job and educational opportunities to our staff (under privileged Cambodian youth) that empower them for brighter futures.

You ask, "Why am I so busy?" The answer is that DDD has just started a new project for a client in the USA, JSTOR who is a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.

At the moment the project is in a pilot phase. There are two partners and DDD, one partner scans the input from JSTOR, the other provides storage and processing and DDD provides the manual labor to convert scanned images into a computer usable format. As in any project start-up there have been some issues that need to be worked out, luckily this project is having less than the normal amount of concerns. The big reason I have not had a lot of free time, is that with the 12 hour time difference between Cambodia and the USA, I have been working a normal day and then staying up to talk to the partners in the USA.

For example, this morning I was up at 05:00 to check what the partners had done yesterday their time and tonight I will be up until about 23:00 to follow up with them on what was accomplished today.