ePrints 3…finally done

Two weeks ago I wrote how I was going to complete the ePrints 3 assignment. I ended up putting if off until this past Saturday. Truthfully, it scared me, I thought I had no clue what I was doing. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was the easiest assignment I had completed this semester, of course, by saying this I have just cursed myself. I probably did it wrong!
Initially, I had no clue how to log onto ePrints 3. I wasn’t even sure where to find it on the internet. Luckily, someone else had asked this exact question during our weekly chat session. Soon I found ePrints 3 and began exploring the site. I tried to upload an article but it didn’t work. After a few attempts, I got fed up and quit, vowing I would finish it in a few days. Of course that didn’t happen, for one reason or another. I made up a lot of excuses to put off doing this assignment, which is very unlike me, including going to see Transformers 2.
So, Saturday I figured I had to complete the assignment or it would never get done. I regretfully sat down and planned on putting in a good four hours on this assignment. I was dreading my Saturday afternoon. I started by going through EBSCOhost and finding several articles about computer networking. I ended up saving the articles to my computer before uploading them. I wasn’t sure if this was what we were supposed to do or if we were just supposed to upload the metadata.
After uploading the articles I couldn’t decide which type of display I wanted to do. Was I supposed to make it so that everyone could see it or one of the other two options? I quickly figured out the metadata for all of the articles and then it came time to put it up. Of course this part confused me a bit too. I had to make sure that all of my items were active. I almost missed this during my first time through ePrints 3.
After I was finished with my articles I went and looked for books on-line to help complete this assignment. I did not upload the books, because many of them were hardback, so I just quickly put in the metadata so anyone looking could find out the information about the books.
In the end, I’m still not sure if I completed this thing correctly or not. I guess when grades are given, I will find out. I’m just crossing my fingers until then!