Projects
Collaborative History, Waverley Heritage Museum:
Collaborative History: Mapping Waverley Through Stories is a concept project prepared while volunteering with the Waverley Heritage Society Operations Committee, intended to display current-day stories from residents of the community. I initiated the project as a continuity effort - connecting the museum's settlement-to-industrial concept of history to today's Waverley. Responses are captured through a simple Google Form and placed manually on the map to allow for moderation. I believe in this project because it engages community members in a meaningful and accessible way, while addressing small heritage institutions' difficulty to see the present as history in the making and capture it as so.
Inventory of outdoor sculpture finding aid, Halifax Municipal Archives:
The Inventory of outdoor sculpture is a sub-series of the Art Allocation Committee project files with which I was tasked to weed, arrange, describe, and digitize to the Halifax Municipal Archives' online database. Order was imposed to incorporate 168 photographs of various mediums, corresponding with the Inventory of outdoor sculpture manuscript. This project was my first exposure to many archival activities: physical and digital processing, increasing discoverability for records pertaining to diverse groups, and my fair share of problem-solving. Plus, I feel like an expert tour guide when I'm downtown!
Accessibility statement, Waverley Heritage Museum:
In my first few months as an Operations Committee member with the Waverley Heritage Society, I initiated a project to improve accessibility standards at our museum. An accessibility statement was established thanks to my research and advocacy on best practices for physical accessibility in historic buildings. As a result, the Committee gained a greater awareness of accessibility and inclusion issues and was able to obtain a doorbell, rendering our accessible entrance functional once again.
Living Treaty Practices, Metadata in Mi'kma'ki Project:
This project was my interpretation of an open-ended assignment intended to create a product which engages the learner with both metadata and the treaties governing Mi'kma'ki. The StoryMaps page, while still a concept, would ideally be a classroom which employs the descriptive and linked nature of metadata as an educational tool in itself. The tool would engage students to consider their daily activities in the context of the Treaties, using photographs, description, tagging, and links to pre-existing educational tools from the Nova Scotia Archives and the Mi'kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas.
Children's activities, Waverley Heritage Museum:
Created for an off-season opening event, this collection of children's activities was an opportunity for me to update and expand our self-guided programming, all while having fun.
Collections and Exhibits, Obscure Dal Project:
My Dublin Core descriptions of art displays found across Dalhousie's campuses, Great Women of STEM Portraits, Marine Venus, Weldon Law Sculpture (untitled), were generated as part of the Collections and Exhibits exhibit, for a class project entitled "Obscure Dal." The project enabled me to navigate issues of copyright and abstraction across metadata and exhibit description.
History Along the Old Guysborough Road, Wikidata Project:
This project on metadata creation and cataloguing resulted in the creation of three Wikidata entries: History Along the Old Guysborough Road, a book, and Noreen Gray and Annie Blois, its two authors. As a semester-long learning opportunity, I was able to explore the balance between current best practices in cataloguing gender and a feminist ethics of care in archiving.
Map table transition, Waverley Heritage Museum:
Coming soon!