Archival
Processing
Appraised,
processed, described and re-housed the archives of a national service
company, including a 600 box backlog of text and media collections, for
a proposed museum.
Appraised
and created finding aid for 5,000 box video and film collection.
Appraised
and processed archival document collections for local non-profit and
historical associations.
Created archives for various
corporations which included database design, collection development, user
assessment, metadata/thesaurus standards, production levels, project management,
licensing and rights management.
Coordinated
workflow for preservation, identification, scanning and indexing for a
collection of more than 3,000,000 images covering a 90-year span.
Organized and inventoried
talent files on a global basis for Fortune 100 companies
Preserved
and arranged for archival storage of historical images dating to the
1850s.
Audio/Visual
Digitization and Description
Encoded and indexed
over 20,000 video clips of commercials representing
over 50 years of advertising for a Fortune 500 company.
Indexed and digitized 100,000 archival
images in one year.
Installed and
configured a video encoding solution in an academic
environment and designed an XML metadata scheme for a nation-wide
criminal justice program.
Marketing
Created
a revenue-generating corporate archive for a Fortune 100 company.
Created and taught marketing ideas
for various clients for promotion and fund-raising, including developing
marketing merchandising concepts, newsletters (both traditional and
online), user studies, focus groups, and a variety of other outreach
concepts.
Metadata
Received over 20,000 catalog cards
for a 100 year old institution with inconsistent metadata and
transcribed into a standard database.
Examined and researched
hand-written corporate meeting minutes from a more than 150 year old
company and transcribed them with a high degree of accuracy.
Created an automotive thesaurus containing
more than 30,000 terms. The
first known of its kind, it has a hierarchical structure that relates
body styles, automotive parts and car models into one search tool.
Created a
thesaurus for a well known entertainment company.
Designed metadata schemes
for various clients including B-roll description for cable production companies.
Developed a
methodology and template to categorize and index moving
film.
Developed a
thesaurus and indexed thousands of video clips and B-roll
for
a well-known nature documentary company.
Developed metadata strategy
for new stock house via focus groups and competitive assessment.
Developed Visual Indexing Workshops, which
introduced the concepts and methodology of still and moving image
indexing.
Developed vocabulary for subject
categorization of documentaries.
Developed XML
indexing/metadata schema for television commercials and
production material.
Indexed 500,000 clip art images in 14
months for a leading software company.
Indexed masters, submasters,
and B-roll for hundreds of documentaries.
Translated and indexed international commercials
into dozens of languages.
Process Management
Developed procedure manuals
for educational, commercial and private digitization projects.
Facilitated
communication within a non-profit organization regarding a
large-scale digitization implementation.
Research
Research on historic buildings for
individuals, corporations and developers.
Corporate history and
historical period research for small and large organizations.
Designed web-based
curriculum for library and information science programs.
Provided research services
on talent files for the last 15 years for various corporate clients.
Researched & supplied images for
more than 1,500 documentaries representing all
major cable documentary channels. Also supplied images to major
publishers, newspapers and stock houses.
Research for digital
asset management system implementation for a variety of public & private
organizations.
