Constructing an Indexing Language for Historic Fort Steilacoom
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 sponsored by: Historic Fort Steilacoom
Project participants:
Drew Jackson
MLIS
Jennifer Stetson
MLIS
Melissa Morgan
MLIS
Miles Stepleton
MLIS