Knowledge Organization & Access

At the heart of curating physical collections and digital information are decisions and expertise on the best ways to arrange information and provide access to it. Increasingly, this includes working to integrate various fragmented organizational systems into more useful forms. On a personal level, I feel a great sense of fascination with order and how our organizational choices reflect our conceptualizations of the world; on a practical level, I have sought classes and projects that have allowed me to explore these areas (see below):

The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) project
(2013-present) Contributor to online global database of the world's health data using a customized cataloging scheme.

Organization of Sharepoint Policies & Procedures Document Library for UW iSchool
(Spring and Summer 2012) Before: landing site and library portal. After: centralized landing site.

Private Library Creation Internship, NIAUSI
(Summer 2010, Summer 2011). Deliverables and more information.

Creation of Thesaurus for UW Special Collections Artists' Books
(With Caroline Conley, Deborah Hamilton, and Cristina Linclau: LIS 537, Spring 2011). Deliverables and more information.

Creation and Compilation of Book Index
(With Freeda Brook, Rebecca Szper, and Adam Taplin: Spring 2011). More information.

Finding Aids for UW Special Collections Photographs
(MUSEUM 581, Winter 2011). Deliverables and more information.

See my resume for cataloging experience and volunteer work at NARA, Seattle Municipal Archives, the Frye Art Museum Collections department, Seattle Pacific University, and the Seattle Asian Art Museum.

Relevant coursework:
(LIS 530) Organization of Information and Resources
(LIS 535) Classification Theory
(LIS 537) Construction of Indexing Languages
(INFX 598) Information Architecture Summer Institute
(INFX 542) Information Structures Using XML
(LIS 531) Catalogs, Cataloging and Classification
(EDC&I 583) Message Design