Michael Stewart
Relevant Projects
I am currently coordinating a community of practitioners in-house to implement a survey of all metadata across library, museums, and press descriptions with the goal of a continual assessment cycle that will build in remedial work on existing collections with out-of-date descriptions. It is also our goal to develop a sort of in-house style guide for best practices in a way that can bridge quite a few disparate descriptive ideologies. In my responsibilities as metadata specialist for the NJ/DE Digital Collective, I collect and control a wide variety of incoming data spanning all kinds of cultural heritage repositories. In both cases, persistent questions of ethics, especially around descriptions and classification of people, persist.
Affiliation
University of Delaware; NJ/DE Digital Collective
Country
United States