Metadata: Origins and Metaphors
Where did “metadata” come from anyway?
Skip to year:
2024
2023
Encoding Reparative Description: Preliminary Thoughts
How can coding and programming provide supportive and ethical support for reparative description?
Playlist: Decluttering the Library
Sometimes you need to get rid of some books, even if you love them.
Evaluating Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Heritage Grantmaking
Our assessment of the Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices program is now available from CLIR.
2022
Assessing Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices
The assessment report on Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices will be published soon!
Find and replace data in the shell
Use shell tools to quickly find and replace text data. This post demonstrates regular expressions with find, grep, and sed command line tools.
Wrangling Humanities Data: An Interactive Map of NEH Awards
This post in the humanities data curation series demonstrates how to create interactive maps of NEH grant data from the 1960s.
A Brief Update: Back to Michigan, Back to Academia
I am joining the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Information in fall 2022 to teach archives and digital curation.
2021
Who Reads Applications?
Who will read your grant or fellowship proposal? Read on to learn about who read your application and the questions they will ask.
Playlist: The Tiny Digger as Library Meme
The freighter stuck in the Suez Canal inspired a series of memes on Library Twitter.
Wrangling Humanities Data: Using Regex to Clean a CSV
Have you heard of regular expressions before and wondered how to make use of them? This post is for someone who has asked this question. It assumes a basic u...
Research Grants 101 for Arts Projects
Have you been looking for grants, fellowships, or awards that can be used to support artistic and expressive projects? This post presents a webinar from Dece...
When Should You Reach out to a Funder?
Speaking with a funder can be an effective way to see how your work best fits with current opportunities and priorities. This post offers pointers for how to...
Wrangling Humanities Data: Exploratory Maps of NEH Awards by State
This post continues the “Wrangling NEH Data” topic and demonstrates how to map the geographic distribution of NEH funds across different states using grant d...
Wrangling Humanities Data: Cleaning and Transforming Data
This post continues the “Wrangling NEH Data” series. This installment cleans and transforms the original data to create a geospatial dataset.
Building Jekyll Site Pages with Python
After moving this site to jekyll, I developed a new python script to automatically generate individual pages for my teaching experiences. This post provides ...
2020
Wrangling Humanities Data: Finding and Describing Data
This post begins a series that demonstrates steps in a data preservation and analysis workflow. This step walks through the process of creating essential pre...
Arts & Humanities Grants: Beyond Fellowships
Researchers in the arts and humanities often seek support for their work through fellowships and other awards that support single investigators. But don’t fo...
Strategies for Arts & Humanities Federal Grants
Do you want to know more about what federal programs might be best suited to support your arts or humanities research? Have you ever wondered how to apply fo...
2018
Career Diversity in Ethnomusicology
What paths might a career in ethnomusicology take? While teaching and research in academia are the most common, there are many varieties. This talk explored ...
2016
Play/back: The Challenge to Select in Audio Archives
A condensed version of my introductory remarks at a panel of audio archives projects at the National Endowment for the Humanities “Play/back” symposium on au...