Everyone so far has posted some really cool ideas, and my proposal is to latch on what you guys are already talking about but delve into the description, access and output aspects of your collections and projects. As the Metadata Librarian in the Cataloging department here at UVa, my interest is in how you guys describe the stuff you have, like this travel journal and photographs and local history collections made up of lots of different formats, and whether it is possible to get non-experts in on the description (and what it would look like if we did). I’m also interested in exploring how we can use the metadata (and choose the metadata wisely) so that it can do stuff for us, like making nifty visualizations.
Ivey Glendon
- Title / Position: Metadata Librarian
- Organization: University of Virginia
I'm currently a Metadata Librarian in the Cataloging and Metadata Services division at UVa, but I've only been doing this for a few months. Prior to joining at UVa, I spent three years at the Library of Congress working in the National Digital Newspaper Program, a joint project between the LC and the National Endowment for the Humanities to serve up digitized newspapers through the website Chronicling America. I'm very interested in digital preservation, and using metadata for both large and smaller-scale efforts.
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