I teach several classes online for the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University, for their MSLIS program. I lead 90 minute live sessions in Zoom once a week for 11 weeks in a quarter term. During these live … Continue reading
I have installed, set up, and maintained the following sites using the Omeka platform for content management and web publishing: https://vccc.vassarspaces.net/ https://historicdress.org/omeka2/ http://artoneida.org/ https://omeka.hvvacc.org/ You can also see my work to adapt several existing themes or plugins among my GitHub … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
In the spring semester I have taught as a Lecturer for the School of Information Sciences at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. For INSC 521: Cataloging and Classification (last taught Spring 2020) I led 2.5 hour live sessions in Zoom once a … Continue reading
As chair of the sub-committee for Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO), part of the larger Cataloging and Metadata Standards Committee (CaMS) for the Visual Resource Association (VRA), I led the development of a series of video tutorials about CCO. Our sub-committee … Continue reading
This application profile builds on existing metadata standards to create a specification for cataloging and encoding historic clothing. The project includes a guide to element definitions, a crosswalk between existing standards, an XML schema based on VRA core, XML instance … Continue reading
Instead of worrying about the right search term, what if we turn to images to represent concepts instead? If we associate images with terms and synonyms in our controlled vocabularies, we can develop visual workflows for both the description process … Continue reading
ArtOneida is a celebration of public artwork throughout Oneida County in New York State. As Digital Project Manager, I have worked with Archivist-in-Residence Marc-Anthony Polizzi to research public artwork all across the county for inclusion in an online archive and a commemorative … Continue reading
For this project I have developed prototypes, using Omeka, Shared Shelf, and ContentDM, for a digital collection of archival materials showing the history of women’s clothing in America. I am part of a working group that has been meeting since … Continue reading
Over the summer of 2014, I was an intern at the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia University. This internship was focused on data recovery for the sciences and humanities, into Columbia’s institutional repository, Academic Commons. As … Continue reading
