In IIIF and Mirador at UW Libraries, I sought to understand how the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) functions and how the IIIF-compliant Mirador Image Viewer can be used at UW Libraries. All images in the UW Libraries Digital Collections are IIIF-compliant and viewable in Mirador, but this function is underutilized by staff and researchers. After interviews with Libraries staff and my own extensive research, I created three mini-tutorials on accessing and using Mirador. The tutorials take the viewer through using the Mirador Classic Image Viewer features, loading two or more images, and loading images from other IIIF-compliant institutions.

After receiving copious mail in recent years documenting abuses experienced by those incarcerated at Illinois civil commitment facilities, Black and Pink Chicago sought to create an archive to shed light on this little-known issue. This project involved digitizing nearly 100 documents from incarcerated individuals, establishing appropriate metadata standards, populating an engaging Omeka site, and creating guidelines for project continuance. The archive is now a tool Black and Pink Chicago can use to share stories from inside with researchers, activists and the general public to facilitate rehumanization of the incarcerated, advocate for measurable changes and ultimately abolish the carceral system.

The Iowa Rock 'n Roll Preservation Project aims to provide the sponsor organization with the necessary tools to manage and maintain their museum's collection. Through this, the organization will better understand the information and history available through their collection.

My project was sponsored by the Bellingham Public Library and built on directed fieldwork that I conducted in the summer of 2020 to support BPL’s project "Peoples’ Perspectives", a community initiative hoping to capture life in Whatcom County during COVID-19. The resulting archive, consisting of submissions from the community, will be preserved and displayed online through Omeka S. I provided recommendations for BPL on best practices, vocabulary, metadata, and digital preservation going forward.

The Zines on Zoom events served to promote the Washington Center for the Book’s project, Sheltered in Place: COVID-19 Zine Diaries Project. We organized a focus group and a workshop to teach adults about zine culture and zine-making with the goal of inspiring them to create a zine to submit to the Sheltered in Place project. In these two virtual events, we celebrated zines and highlighted their ability to both exemplify and preserve human expression. We hoped to help participants process their feelings during the pandemic in a flexible and creative format.

Queer Air is a podcast that explores queer archival materials within the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, alongside guest speakers who are also involved within the archival field and/or queer community. Queer Air’s second season is a continuation of a previous Capstone project and seeks to create more visibility for UW’s queer collections and provide alternative ways to access resources. Queer Air lets patrons interact with the UW’s queer collections by allowing them to listen to the podcast’s hosts discuss collection materials, their provenance, and the significance of these histories for the past, present, and future.

Currently, the iSchool capstone archive is stagnant and fails to facilitate connections with industry partners and showcase students’ work beautifully. It is difficult to navigate and find interesting projects, and the project pages show a limited view of the team’s work. We decided to redesign the navigation to allow users to excitingly explore projects, and make an individual project page that gives students flexibility in displaying content. With our redesign, audiences and potential sponsors can find projects easily and students are able to show projects in a richer way, which allows the website to be more accessible and useful.

This project creates priorities for the preservation of an iconic VHS tape collection. Seattle’s Scarecrow Video is one of the world’s largest physical media collections, with over 130,000 film titles available to the public to rent on DVD, Blu-Ray, and VHS. The institution’s VHS collection is comprised of around 15,000 items. VHS tape is an obsolete media format at high risk for deterioration. With such a massive collection, Scarecrow needs to be able to prioritize its rarest and most valuable titles for preservation.

The Seattle Pacific University Archives contain a range of recorded sound objects, including vinyl phonographic discs of performances by university music groups. I digitized this collection of vinyl discs using a USB-enabled turntable and Audacity software, creating WAV and MP3 recordings. The purpose was to increase ease of access for the archivist, the SPU community, and other researchers to this collection. I created a workflow outlining my steps when digitizing and gave this document to the SPU archivist, to aid further digitization efforts and supplement training for future workers.

The Cabrinety Project is a large-scale digital preservation effort between Stanford University Libraries and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create forensic disk images and photographic scans of materials in the software series of the Stephen Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing. My task was to assist with digital preservation by sending out permission agreements for the digital software items in the collection. I identified rights holders for the 8,000+ items in the collection, sent permission agreements, and then based off their response, determined the level of access each digital item will have in the collection.