Benjamin Rubin, Dartmouth College, Spring 2021
Over the course of the spring semester, I interned at Dartmouth's Media Ecology Project, (“MEP”). MEP is a digital lab started in 2018 that allows researchers to access archival moving image collections, and lets them contribute to the critical analysis of those collections for the broader research community to share. It's not a centralized collection, but rather a network of different collections from different organizations, all unified under the same metadata schema, and annotated in a way that allows researchers to access, do research on, and share information about different films. This includes allowing users to annotate the videos within the collection, and the ability to search through multiple collections with just one keyword. Over the course of the internship, I not only learned several key metadata concepts necessary for working in the field, but I was also able to help expand MEP's database of films, facilitate the integration of UCLA's collection of "In the Life" episodes into the collection, and helped to organize the numerous notes, scans, and descriptions of early American films written by a prominent film scholar. I gained experience in building crosswalks for metadata conversion, using catalog management like Airtable, and learned how metadata terms are created in order to describe films.
Benjamin Rubin interned at Dartmouth College in Spring 2021.
