iSchool Capstone

Constructing an Indexing Language for Historic Fort Steilacoom

Project tags:

indigenous knowledge

The Historic Fort Steilacoom Association publishes a regular newsletter for their members, which contains valuable information about the Fort’s deep ties to local and national history. Over 150 of these newsletters are available online, but are only organized by basic bibliographic information which impedes precise discovery. To assist with this issue, we developed a custom indexing language, tagged each newsletter article, and developed a prototype of the web version of the index. Our indexing language was also intentionally designed to better represent the women’s and indigenous history at the Fort.

Project participants:

Drew Jackson

MLIS

Jennifer Stetson

MLIS

Melissa Morgan

MLIS

Miles Stepleton

MLIS