the many facets of archiving

I am most surprised at all that goes into archiving one item.  An archivist must make many decisions before even doing anything with the item.  The sensitive nature of our project adds another level of thought and consideration before beginning the project.

I am thankful for the clarification of definitions in class.  Our own definitions of controlled vocabularies is so important, especially as we make the lib guide glossary of sorts to draw upon for future library projects.

Our victim passed away at the Pentagon and has relatively few artifacts from her family to archive.  I hope that we can pay tribute to her life though you can only work with what we’re given.  For starters, Jen is alerting VOICES (Frank) to her age which was incorrectly posted as 36 on that tribute page.  I am hoping that our little archive gets viewed by at least the families, so that they know that their loved ones’ lives are being honored.

This weekend I plan on uploading and tagging many of her documents into Omeka.  Hopefully I won’t run into too many glitches!