Author: Jake Gibson
Jake Gibson is a Master of Science in Library and Information Science student at Pratt Institute and current User Services fellow at the Center for Brooklyn History. His research interests include digital humanities, ethical approaches to documenting activism, data librarianship, critical media studies, and data justice.
As the project manager of Virulent Hate, a digital humanities team documenting anti-Asian racism and Asian American activism during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jake has experience supporting faculty and undergraduate research, data management, building research websites, and information visualization.
Jake's work is grounded in an ethics of care and a belief in the value of collaboration. He also has a background in the performing arts and is passionate about all things experimental.
This presentation will touch on the experience of cataloging items from Our Streets Our, Stories by the Center For Brooklyn History’s Pratt Fellow. The Collection is a valuable case study on the importance of collecting robust metadata at the time of collection.