Between 1926 and 1968, a rare bookseller removed leaves from a 16th century German manuscript to sell to collectors and libraries. This process diminished the leaves’ original context and usefulness to researchers today. We tracked down 26 of these leaves in an attempt to create a digital reconstruction of the original bound manuscript and learn additional information about the anonymous author(s) of this work. Through this process, we also evaluated 24 libraries’ reproduction request policies in order to create a recommendation for best practice for digital reproduction requests of Special Collections materials for Stanford University Libraries.

The Martyn Mallory Historical Photograph collection is the legacy of Martyn Mallory (1880-1936), consisting of 2,500 positives and 1,500 glass plate negatives, depicting early 20th-Century life & topography in Idaho. It was entrusted to the Hailey Public Library in 1995 and digitized through grant funding in 2008. Our Capstone entailed migrating the digital collection of 1,717 files into the LYNX Consortium repository, crafting a controlled vocabulary at LCSH standard to describe the collection, & implementing a metadata schema using the Dublin Core standard. Bringing the collection to library standard increased its value, usability, & increased access to this historical treasure.

Transferring medical records today is slow and cumbersome. Medisend allows patients to own their medical records, provide frictionless transfers between clinics and secure storage using Sent.io’s blockchain solution.

The University of Washington Information School Capstone is both feared and anticipated. It challenges students to actively begin the transition between academic and professional life. With the goals of innovation and improvement in mind, the iSchool wished to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Capstone Process as a whole. While several strengths were also identified, this project directly asked past, present, and future Capstone students to identify those areas in which they experienced barriers that hindered their Capstone projects. This information can then be used to the benefit of future cohorts and the iSchool as a whole.

In 2016, Seattle’s Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) started the process of digitizing their physical archive. For this project, I analyzed every item in each of the exhibitions in the digital archive and assigned metadata descriptors (tags) in order to make the exhibition items in the digital archive easier to find through online searches.

Microsoft Office Suite certification is an important tool in both personal and professional development. Certification is obtained through testing, though such tests are often inaccessible because of their cost and time consumption. To help grant equity in access to this resource, Kitsap Regional Library is working in conjunction with the Washington State Library to offer free testing to their patrons. The goal of this capstone project was to complete the research and planning necessary to implement testing at Kitsap by fall 2018.

In Seattle, many youth and young adults experiencing unstable housing rely on their case managers to help them through periods of adversity. However, the lack of a centralized platform for collaboration hinders this process for both sides. Milestone empowers youth and young adults to navigate the path toward stability by providing a single point of contact and cooperation with their case managers. By integrating messaging and the creation of goal plans into a single platform, youth and young adults can work with their case managers to achieve success, one milestone at a time.

MISO (Musical Instruments of the Seattle Opera) is a Microsoft Access database designed to track the Seattle Opera’s instrument collection. Before MISO, instruments were tracked using several spreadsheets that were inconsistent and difficult to update. The Seattle Opera realized it needed a better system when a cimbasso went missing. After a frantic search, it was discovered that the cimbasso was never missing - it had been in the Seattle Opera’s library all along. With MISO, all relevant instrument information, including location, current user and technical specifications are all combined into one location, ensuring that no instrument is lost.

Mito, derived from Latin for “giving with ease”, provides a social platform that lets users purchase products online to send to each other without exchanging physical addresses. Our solution offers a seamless process for buying goods for recipients while protecting users’ address information at all cost. A transaction on Mito no longer requires users to share their private address with one another.