SSA - Archivists of Religious Collections Section - Lunch and Learn Access and Accessibility: Transcribing handwriting with From the Page

SSA - Archivists of Religious Collections Section - Lunch and Learn

Access and Accessibility: Transcribing handwriting with From the Page

Jeremy Heil, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario will introduce From the Page - a crowdsourcing platform for archives and libraries.

Thursday, July 20, 2023 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aP9nAbhuR1OxPNwdE5IlSw

Jeremy Heil has been the Digital and Private Records Archivist at Queen's University Archives since 2001. He holds a Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia (2000). Prior to working at Queen's, he was employed as an archivist with the Chung Collection in Vancouver, and in the Private Records Section of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. He has served on numerous committees locally, provincially, and nationally, including terms as President of the Archives Association of Ontario and as Managing Editor of Archivaria. He has taught workshops on digital records and metadata in archives and presented papers on various topics related to digital archives over the past 20 years. His publications include "The Procrustean Bed: A History of the Arrangement of the Al Purdy fonds" Archivaria 76 (Fall 2013) and "Stones: Using Mashups to Understand a City's Social Tapestry," The Interactive Archivist: Case Studies in Utilizing Web 2.0 to Improve the Archival Experience (Society of American Archivists, 2009). He is a collaborator with the Vulnerable Media Lab at Queen's University, as well as with the Queen's Wicked Ideas-funded project "Will Digital Art Have a Digital Future?: The Challenges of Preserving and Restoring Digital Born Cultures."