Researching the Histories of Cataloging to (Try to) Make Better Metadata
Researching the Histories of Cataloging to (Try to) Make Better Metadata
Overview
Join us as Rossitza Atanassova (British Library) and James Baker (University of Southampton) discuss their research on the histories of cataloging. Their talk will review computational approaches to the analysis of historical cataloging labor, highlighting the ways this work can help us develop better, more equitable collection catalogs.
About the Speakers
James Baker is Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton. He works at the intersection of history, cultural heritage, and digital technologies, and is currently researching histories of knowledge organization in 20th-century Britain. He is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College, and a Trustee of the Programming Historian. Prior to joining Southampton, he held the positions of Senior Lecturer in Digital History and Archives at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Humanities Lab, Digital Curator at the British Library, and Postdoctoral Fellow with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Rossitza Atanassova is a member of the Digital Research team at the British Library, where she has responsibility for digitization governance and enables the access and reuse of digital collections. She has contributed to international collaborations on digitization and digitized collections, and is interested in the creation and enrichment of digitized collections and the innovative use of digital culture heritage. She is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and is the Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship.
Event Details
Time:
Thursday, January 19, 2023
1-2 p.m. EST
Location:
Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory
Sterling Memorial Library
120 High Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Registration
This talk is open to all, though registration is required. To register, please visit the Eventbrite page for the talk.
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