Vanport Mosaic is a community archive that preserves memories related to life in Vanport, Oregon, the flood that destroyed the city, and the reverberating legacies of displacement, discrimination, resistance, and resilience that followed. This project addresses Vanport Mosaic’s need to make its content available online by developing a rights and usage policy, designing a metadata schema, and populating descriptive metadata for the collection’s oral history interviews to increase discoverability. Through this work, the marginalized histories in this collection will become discoverable and accessible to the public, making them available to educate, inspire, and advocate for change.

Librarians manually keyword large datasets to enhance information findability in IHME’s catalog. Automating this process could significantly streamline the cataloging workflow. This project documents data characteristics of IHME’s collection to inform an automatic solution. Research revealed that an auto-keywording tool which could process ALL data types would require large investment into a sophisticated computational linguistics solution. This project delivers a practical solution focused on a few specific data types to immediately save Librarians hours of work per data set. The project also provides documentation as lasting evidence for future development and/or funding of a larger Language Learning Model project.

This project addresses the need for discoverable and accessible archival materials about Black histories at Occidental College. In the last decade, Oxy students increasingly utilize archival study and the digital humanities to advance their research and progress student movements. The College’s archive is rich with materials, but access is limited due to slow processes towards digitization, lack of finding guides, and loss of digital exhibits. Using Collection Builder, this project builds a framework for a sustainable, publicly accessible digital archive that benefits its target audience and presents a replicable model for other affinity organizations and community archives.

Camano Island has a lot of incredible history and a lot of people who are interested in it but, until recently, had nowhere to connect the two. The Camano City Schoolhouse Archive solves an information need for historians and genealogists on the island, as well as local people who have historic materials they want to donate. We’ve been able to establish the archive, build procedures, and train volunteers so archival work can continue for decades. Now, our space is open for any researcher, and our digital collection is growing every week - which connects people with Camano’s varied history.

In the realm of amateur fan archiving, the digital preservation of its fanfiction is held paramount. However, fanfiction is the natural result of its hosting platform, and it is crucial to consider this in its preservation. Through exploring both the history of the tenuous digital space of fan communities and its fanfiction terminology, this series of blog posts reveals three potential solutions to the natural difficulties of preserving context and space: introductions, disclaimers, and emulation. This project can function as a complement to the work of fan archivists to ensure that their efforts are as complete as is feasible.

When grieving it can be difficult to find the time and energy to find resources on grief. The Grievers Library has an EZ Reads section thats purpose is to provide easily accessible quick reads on many types of grief. The goal of our project was to find excerpts for underrepresented categories in EZ Reads. We hope that through this project we can help those going through the grieving process find resources more easily. Grief is something that everyone will experience at least once in their lifetime. It’s inescapable and it’s important to create access to resources that can help.

The HEAL-WA team aims to increase the use of their portal by clinical care providers, meeting their mission to “provide evidence-based information to support patient care.” I created a Care Provider Toolkit to increase access to databases and journals useful to clinicians. The toolkit's clear and easy-to-use design encourages the use of these resources. With reliable access to evidence-based information clinical care providers can provide quality care to patients. Providing evidence-based resources at no additional cost creates options for healthcare workers who may otherwise be limited in their ability to use these resources due to the high cost of access.

Our team 8bread developed a website and order management system for our Sponsor Grand Pere Bakery. They were facing various information problems, which we addressed through our project. Such as, lack of data, manual information processing, physical ordering and invoicing, and communications. Our team developed a website that provides an online presence, manages/organizes data, streamlines communication, and handles ordering processes. This project will make a difference in the lives of our sponsor, his business, and his customers by streamlining processes and functions, providing digital connectivity, and promoting transparency and trust between both ends.

The Audiology Clinic at Seattle Children’s Hospital offers hearing aid trials and loaners to its patients. Access to sound during a child’s formative years is crucial to developing speech and language. This service was managed inconsistently across several disparate spreadsheets, making the process inefficient and reporting capabilities time-consuming. This project aimed to rebuild and replace the existing system, streamlining clinic operations and centralizing its data. This improved data source enables reporting capabilities to support clinic leadership in data-driven decision-making. The system is designed to grow with the clinic and meet its and its patients' changing needs.

Flickr Foundation provided a design brief and call to action for students to reimagine information preservation, cultural stewardship, and the future of memory work in an open culture setting. Over 10 weeks students assessed and debated how digitized photography collections should be stored, described, and accessed now and in the future. Taking on board critical concerns around social justice, decolonization, generative AI, and sustainability, students crafted new proposals to assist Flickr Foundation’s planning as a “life boat”, “bunker”, and time capsule for other people’s visual memories.Students: Joshua Auvaa, Dorothy Clement, Umme-Kulsum Darugar,Allyson Wang Graylin, Ariba Aswad Janoo, Jainaba Jawara, Eric Von Carlos II Latham, Michael Quoc Pham, Archita Singh, Chun Hin Matthew So, Cecelia Kaulawena Thomas, Olivia Wei, Qinruo Yang, Sonia Yeh, Yunjing Zhang, Xingyuan Zhao