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Oct 18 2011

Give me your metadata, your text…

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by courtneymichael

October 18, 2011

your scribbled notes yearning to breath free…

the wonderful refuse of your scholarly process…

send these, the ephemeral, tempest-tost to me..

I lift my lamp beside the golden repository!

Scholars use archives. Scholars take notes. Scholars produce based on these archives and notes. How can the archivist and librarian make use of this process to enhance access to their materials? What tools are necessary for scholars to contribute to the descriptive processes of archivists and librarians? How can this be more of a give and take relationship, as opposed to the current situation where the archivist processes, makes available, and then the scholar makes use. How can we encourage a collaborative process that benefits both parties and makes use of open web technologies to benefit our larger audiences?

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courtneymichael

I'm a project manager in the WGBH Media Library & Archives interested in getting our materials out of the vault and into the hands of researchers. I'm particularly interested in collaborating with scholars who want to use our material digital humanities projects and, in return, contribute data to our collection catalog.

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3 comments

  1. Jennifer

    October 18, 2011 at 9:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Sounds great!!

  2. elizabethcornell

    October 19, 2011 at 6:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Yes, great questions!

  3. MJessup

    October 21, 2011 at 10:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Ditto! I am also an archivist and this sounds like a great topic.

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