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What I Do

As the Archivist for Digital Collections, I will be focusing on metadata management, digital object preparation and related workflows, and digital preservation activities.

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Education

• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• M.S. in Library and Information Science, Simmons College.

Selected Publications and Presentations

• “The Archival Project: Putting Archival Data on the Semantic Web, Guerilla Style…” Museum Computer Network, New England Special Interest Group, MFA Boston, 2011.
• “From the bottom up: re-imagining archival data on the Web.” NEA Spring Meeting, Brown University, 2011.
• “Putting the pieces together: bringing archival tradition to an item-focused Web.” Society of American Archivists, Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable, SAA/DC 2010.
• “W. E. B. Du Bois in the digital age.” Teaching America History Seminar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Feb. 27, 2009
• “Moshe Nadir.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Writers in Yiddish. Joseph Sherman ed.  Vol. 333.  Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007

Professional activities

• Adjunct Professor, Simmons College Graduate School for Library and Information Science.  ”eXtensible Markup Language (XML),” Spring 2011.