Name: Expanding and Enriching Metadata through Engagement with Communities
Start: 2021-10-21T14:15:00-0400
End: 2021-10-21T15:00:00-0400

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Expanding and Enriching Metadata through Engagement with Communities

This panel discusses how cultural institutions are engaging various communities to co-create academic research and/or object metadata in order to increase representation and access to collections; highlighting how this is done in different ways to engage specific audiences and goals, i.e. graduate student assistantships, museum interactive experiences, crowdsourcing, and professional action groups.

Speakers

Jessica BrodeFrank

Digital Collections Access Manager, Adler Planetarium/ University of London

Jessica BrodeFrank is the Digital Collections Access Manager at the Adler Planetarium; and also studies with the University of London as a doctoral candidate in the Digital Humanities Program. Research at the University of London focuses on crowdsourcing as a means of digital engagement... Read More →