As a Metadata Assistant for the Digital Humanities initiative (DHi) at Hamilton College, I provide metadata entry, authority control, and metadata hygiene services as a contractor on an as-needed basis. I have regularly assisted with author-contributed metadata for the American Prison Writing Archive, including maintaining an authority list of participating prison names.
See this project at: https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/study-what-you-love/digital-hamilton/projects/american-prison-writing-archive
For the Charles and Charlotte Wilbour Papers in Special Collections and Archives at Hamilton, I reconciled names in the family correspondence with their authorized forms in the Library of Congress Name Authority File.
See this project at: https://sparc.hamilton.edu/islandora/object/hamLibSparc%3AWilbour_root