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Digital Artifacts at Vassar

a screenshot of the website for the Vassar College Costume Collection showing an image of a bustle dress on the left and a thumbnail for an exhibit poster at the bottom

For this project I developed online access to a research collection of historic clothing and related archival materials, most recently using Omeka. The project began in 2001 as an Excel spreadsheet, then was migrated to a Filemaker database that I … Continue reading →

Hamilton DHI

logo image for the American Prison Writing Archive

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 →

Teaching for UTK

a screenshot of a class in Zoom

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 →

Costume Core

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 →

CDRS Internship

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 →

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