Author: evolk
Emma Volk is an MSLIS student at Pratt Institute. She is a curriculum and product manager at the education technology nonprofit Quill.org and a research fellow at the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N). Emma holds a BA in English and Anthropology from Columbia University and an MSt in English (1900-Present) from the University of Oxford.
This presentation outlines a metadata application profile (MAP) for creating records for streaming performance art videos held by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. It includes the functional requirements, project values, domain model, element set, metadata entry form, cataloging guidelines, and crosswalk for the profile; elements are drawn from PBCore, VRA Core, and METS Rights. Taken together, these components comprise a framework for creating good-quality, consistent metadata that will increase search and retrieval capabilities for Hemi users.
Through a review of trends in the current literature on the topic, I explore community archives as an alternative to traditional archival practice. Ultimately, I argue for a reconceptualization of community archives as part of the archival continuum rather than as traditional or mainstream archives’ binary opposite.