While at the University of Michigan, I participated in a number of projects in the realms of Historical Research, Archival Science, and Information Science. While much of the historical research was done autonomously, many of the projects are the product of group work conducted with colleagues at the School of Information.
Historical Research - Archival Science - Information Science
Archival Science
As a recent graduate of the School of Information, I learned many new technologies including how to create EAD finding aids. An example is attached below:
EAD-FindingAid
When writing EAD Finding Aids, I like to use Altova xmlspy. You can download a free 30 day trial at the Altova xmlspy website. A link to this site is available below:
For spring break 2006, I participated in a project at the Archives Center of the National Museum of American History, a part of the Smithsonian Institute. For this project, I assisted the archivists in converting their current finding aids to be DACS compliant. Examples of these finding aids are available below in word documents.
AC0534 AC0631 AC0878
While there, I also worked physically re-housing a collection of photographs of Dorothy Shaver, a pioneering female president of Lord and Taylor.
In June of 2006 I chaired the Local History section of the Michigan Archives Association at the conference in Frankenmuth, Michigan in June.
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Historical Research
I have conducted multiple research projects including:
- a socio-technological study on an 1890 Pope Safety bicycle
- a biographical study of a Counter Culture Newspaper Editor
- a study in the Illustration of Deformity in Early Western Print Literature. Below is a picture of one of the pages studied. This picture is courtesy of The Nuremberg Chronicle Website. This paper is available for download.
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Information Science
One team project, completed in graduate school, was to assess and create recommendations for a search and retrieval tool created by the archives of the University of Oregon.
629 Final Paper
Another project, completed spring 2006, is a survey of the resources serving to recover objects and art work looted during the Holocaust and the Nazi occupation of Europe.
Electronic Records and Provenance: The Problem of Nazi Looted Art Paper
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