This ambitious project involved cataloging, organizing, and enriching metadata for the content of dozens of hard drives spanning the nineteen-year career of esteemed record producer, and musician, Randall Dunn. Additionally, a digital preservation plan was developed and updated according to OAIS standards as a means of making formal recommendations for further preservation actions.

In her 60+ year career creating monumental public sculpture, American artist Beverly Pepper has generated thousands of production documents, negatives, photographs, films, videos, ephemera, catalogs and books. At 94, she is still making art but her studio in Todi, Italy lacks a digital collections management system to assist with cataloging and access. After assessing her studio collection, creating controlled vocabularies and test installing the CollectiveAccess CMS, this project presents the The Beverly Pepper Foundation with software evaluations, budgets and and metadata guidelines to begin the much needed and long overdue process of arranging the studio archive.

The Dark Web and Bitcoin are both digital systems that the average person has little understanding of. Yet both of these platforms have very real impacts on the world and can affect people without their knowledge. The Dark Web is a new digital black market that uses Bitcoin as its primary currency. Both of these are considered anonymous, yet they can be combined. Similar features could then be used, matching Bitcoin and Dark web users. Our team cleaned and parsed the two data sets, combining them in one location and exploring the information they contain to start the deanonymization process.

In September 2016 the Wasilla Public Library moved into a new building with dedicated space for graphic novels, comics, and manga. However, the library had no clear goals for how they would develop the collection. This project was designed to create those goals by surveying library users, reviewing current literature on the medium, and developing policies and practices to suit the library's needs. In addition, over 200 titles were suggested for purchase to help build the library's collection.

The A.C. Warner Collection was partially processed during the creation of a digital image database. However, because of the project’s limited scope, several aspects of archival collection processing remained incomplete over a decade later. For our project, we collocated duplicate photographs, removed photos outside of the collection’s scope, and incorporated relevant items that had yet to be inventoried. We rehoused materials in archival folders and sleeves, and developed a new organization scheme. Finally, we created a new finding aid using the EAD standard. The result is a better organized collection, paired with an improved finding aid for patron use.

I tested the UW GAMER Group's Video Game Metadata Schema against the Living Computers: Museum + Labs collection of 2,162 video games and cataloged over 1,000 of the games in the collection. I created a metadata crosswalk from the VGMS to MARC21 and compared and improved the controlled vocabularies of both groups. I cataloged games and supervised Museology interns as they assisted in the cataloging process, met with librarians at Michigan State University to discuss standardizing video game cataloging practices, and wrote and submitted a paper for publication about the process and my findings.

Over the years, the Washington National Guard Museum has accepted donations amounting to several hundred books. These books were un-inventoried and taking up space in various storage areas. The Museum Board envisioned a Research Library to provide access to these books, but did not have the resources, or expertise to put that library together. Our team was able to catalog a large portion of the books, weed out items outside the scope of the library, and set up collection development and cataloging policies and procedures - giving the Museum tools to establish a Research Library and continue to manage the collection.

Our Capstone team processed, prepared for accession, and digitized much of CoCA’s remaining and untouched video-audio content. For months, we worked to inventory, catalogue, and preserve digitized content according to CoCA’s finding aid resources and future needs. This content will be preserved internally on CoCA’s private server/cloud storage system. In troubleshooting such uncharted territory, our team researched digital preservation and future best practices for ongoing digitization work. This directly impacted our final written assessment and review on our work, in which we highlighted future suggestions for digital storage/best practices, and digital preservation frameworks for future iSchool CoCA interns.

Using the Historical Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Washington, Special Collections, we aim to shed light on how much can be gleaned from the study of children’s literature of the past. With this project, we have created an online exhibit with teaching tools and research guides to garner more public engagement with this collection. Our goal is to provide access to these items in order to inspire studies, share with others, and encourage future use of UW Special Collections materials.

The Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) Seattle Archives Wiki Project, upon culmination, will be a go-to page for those who are interested in learning more about CoCA. It will also give the Center a new way to reconnect with past artists and presenters, curators, and audiences, both general and within the arts community, “to tell the whole CoCA story”. Although the CoCA gallery is several contemporary art museums/galleries, this project will still be a great way to allow Seattle residents, visitors, and those who are located elsewhere to get a glimpse of another aspect of the history and spirit of the Seattle contemporary art scene.