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Answering Your Questions About Metadata
January 19, 2023 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Zoom
Have you heard a lot about metadata, but not exactly sure how to use it with Digital Commonwealth? Join us for a round-table discussion where we provide the basics of metadata with Digital Commonwealth and answer your questions.
This event is free of charge. Please register by January 17. Zoom link will be emailed after registration.
Jake Sadow is the Statewide Digitization Project Archivist for the Boston Public Library. He project manages the Statewide Digitization program, serving as a liaison between Massachusetts-based cultural heritage institutions and digitization staff at the Boston Public Library. He has worked with over 400 institutions to get their cultural heritage collections online, including libraries, museums, historical societies and universities. He also acts as an educator, raising awareness among library and information professionals of issues in digitization and promoting conversations between institutions to address those issues.
Nichole Shea is the Statewide Metadata Coordinator at the Boston Public Library. Her work is part of the library’s Statewide Digitization program, which provides digitization services and repository space for cultural heritage institutions in the state of Massachusetts. In her position, Nichole works with institutions in the Statewide Digitization program to gather and prepare data for the Digital Commonwealth repository. She is also the lead member of the program’s Metadata Mob, which provides metadata assistance for partner institutions as needed.
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