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.

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.

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.

This project is a multilingual taxonomy (currently English, German, and Japanese) of video game genres, including gameplay and narrative genres. It consists of a multilingual equivalency table, hierarchical schedules, and alphabetical schedules. The purpose of the taxonomy is to create an international standard for describing video game genres. This document aids in the indexing and searching of video game records designed with the Video Game Metadata Schema by providing a robust multilingual controlled vocabulary. This project was sponsored by the iSchool's GAMER Group and created with data from Germany's Computerspielemuseum and Japan's Ritsumeikan University Center for Game Studies.

My project is the Rainbow Outreach GLBT Center Library Metadata Creation for The University of Nebraska Omaha, Archives and Special Collections, Queer Omaha Archives. None of the several thousand books donated had been cataloged prior to the beginning of my project. The sheer volume of material paired with a limited number of staff hampered the efforts to make holdings available to researchers and members of the LGBTQAI+ community. I created constant data and MARC records for the book collection, and over 450 books have been cataloged to date and can now be accessed through the UNO Criss Library catalog.

The goal of this project was the creation of a beverage and flavor taxonomy and ontology to allow the Starbucks Business Intelligence Team to successfully complete analytics and pick up trends. Terms, definitions, and structures were developed through a combination of current-state domain research, stakeholder interviews, and use case scenarios. Our ontology will enable Starbucks to better understand the relationships between their products and the metadata around them. The taxonomy and controlled vocabulary we have established will aid the analytics team by demonstrating hierarchies and relationships so that their is data more organized so it can be effectively used.

To demonstrate what the Biola University library can offer to strengthen faculty research in STEM, this project performed an evaluation of the Biology collection examining age, usage, faculty opinion, and a peer collection comparison. The library has a current but very under used collection that is on-par with peers, but faculty want journals, not books. I recommend finishing the STEM analysis to see if trends hold across all the sciences. If that's the case, the library may have to think beyond journals and books. This project creates a research template to use for future evaluations.

The Malcom Stilson Special Collections, located in the Library Underground area of the Evergreen State College campus, houses the history of the institution, and consists of manuscripts and media in different formats. The purpose of this capstone was to assist with media digitization. I have also provided documentation on a new digitizing process, and metadata retention. It is believed that this will be of value to future students and staff, and help maintain consistency across multimedia collections. Additional deliverables include an analysis of DACS and EAD, and the pros and cons of incorporating EAD into a collection.

The Soviet Broadcast Collection contains over a thousand hours of news, documentaries, and cultural programming aired in the Soviet Union from 1986 to 1992. The collection is currently stored on video cassette in the Suzzallo Library and is at risk of complete deterioration. Working with John Vallier in the Media Archiving and Digitization Lab, I was able to continue the work of digitally preserving this material. I have provided recommendations for the full preservation and sharing of the content, including creation of finding aids, adding media to the Media Arcade’s Jukebox, and making material available for language and culture studies.

As part of its Boundless campaign, the University of Washington is positioning itself as a way through which donors can support the causes they care about--like curing cancer, sustainable fishing practices, or increasing access to higher education. I constructed a thesaurus of philanthropic interests for UW Advancement so they can connect the causes donors care about to the departments that need their support. Upon implementation, my thesaurus will be used to index marketing content and tag prospect database records based on interests. My thesaurus is a first step towards helping donors connect with the right philanthropic opportunities easily and efficiently.