DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT and PRESERVATION

September 2019 -July 2021: The National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian), Audio Visual Special Collection (AVSC) and the Catalog of American Portraits.

• Completed integration of the AVSC collection management system (TMS) and Smithsonian DAMS databases.

• Designed mapped fields and normalized metadata in consultation with the DAMS team and NPG staff.

• Moved over 30,000 images and over 4TB of audiovisual material into the Smithsonian repository.

2018-2019: Archives of American Art (Smithsonian)

• 54 TB of video and audio including panel discussions and interviews with artists, critics and gallerists at various locations around the Soho neighborhood of New York City from 1975 through 2016.

  My blog post on the collection It’s Friday Night In Soho was published by the Archives of American Art in 2020, and was picked up by the Smithsonian Magazine for Smithsonian Voices.

2013-2017: National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)

• Put systems in place for archiving and preserving 15 years of born-digital video, audio, still images and text

• Some digitization of analog media

• Prototyped an iTunes U site and iBook (2013)

• Worked with preserving documentation of community consultations in the NMAI Conservation Department and forging paths to NMAI social media for use of assets.

• Worked in collaboration with the NMAI Media Group and central Smithsonian Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) staff.

• Experience in a Native-lead environment acted as immersive training in cultural sensitivities surrounding collections of Indigenous objects, crucial for respectful, accurate and lasting metadata.