[Eril-l] Best of Core Forum Webinar: Looking Beyond Your Digital Repository: Metadata for Storytelling

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Best of Core Forum Webinar: Looking Beyond Your Digital Repository:
Metadata for Storytelling

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.



Description:

In recent years, the traditional use of digital collections simply as
proxies for the physical has shifted to a paradigm of viewing collections
as data suitable for computational use and novel research methods. A
metadata strategy with robust description can provide access and inspire
new contextual narratives and knowledge. The presenters saw great potential
for a collections as data exploration in a significant World War I archival
collection to highlight lesser-known stories, including those of the
Pioneer Infantry, women, and noncombatants. This case study presentation
will discuss approaches to digital collections metadata, digital
storytelling, data visualization and mapping, and will present real-world
techniques that participants can use in their own work.

The World War I Service Records collection contains a rich record of the
experiences of students and alumni who engaged in military or community
service. The collection, however, was accompanied by extremely minimal
folder-level metadata, which, in combination with CONTENTdm's limited
visualization capabilities, presented major challenges for exposing the
collection's rich data and making its contents available. The presenters
will share approaches to creating granular but scalable metadata and will
discuss the use of ArcGIS and other digital humanities tools for bringing
hidden stories of diversity to light.

Learning outcomes:

Participants will:

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   Learn efficient approaches to creating granular, yet scalable metadata
   for collections.
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   Bring back metadata and collections as data strategies to utilize at
   their institutions.
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   Learn about digital humanities tools that incorporate metadata for
   digital storytelling and data visualizations.

Who should attend?

Metadata and collections, digital humanities librarians

Presenters:

Emily Baldoni (she/her) is a Metadata Librarian and Assistant Professor at
Illinois State University, where she manages metadata for digital
collections. Her work and research interests include cataloging and
metadata education, rare materials cataloging, digital humanities, linked
data, and identity management.

Maddi Loiselle (she/her) is the Metadata Specialist at Illinois State
University where she aids in metadata production and promotion of digital
collections. Her work and research interests include collections as data,
inclusive and accessible metadata creation, and community building in the
workplace.

Angela Yon (she/her) is the Cataloging & Metadata Librarian and Assistant
Professor at Illinois State University. Her work and research interests
include resource description, discovery and management, digital
collections, linked data, critical cataloging, and topics in the digital
humanities and digital scholarship.


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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1459

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*
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