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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 →

Teaching for UTK

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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 →

Content Management Website Redesign Project

This group project proposed a new way of structuring content for an existing website (for a local arts organization), using XML to store content and XSL to display content within a WordPress site. You can see the working pages in … Continue reading →

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