Author: Hilary Wang
Hilary Wang is a maker turned archivist. She holds an MSLIS from the Pratt Institute School of Information and was the Guggenheim Museum Born-Digital Archives Fellow and a former Graduate Fellow at Barnard College Archives and Special Collections. Her practice has taken her to the arctic circle and the pottery factory at Kohler Arts/Industry. As a cultural heritage worker, she is interested in digital preservation and promoting archival access. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design.
This presentation will showcase my work as the 2020-2021 Born-Digital Archives Fellow at the Guggenheim Museum Archives. It will highlight the project evolution of appraising a backlog of curatorial records to uploading exhibition assets to a digital asset management system for museum-wide discovery.