Hello! I’m Kate Thornhill
Digital Scholarship Librarian
I’m a digital librarian with over 10 years of experience working in academic libraries. I lead and contribute to digital research, education, and media programming and services.
If you’re looking for digital consultation support on how to build and maintain people focused digital archives, exhibits, maps, books, zines, scholarly publishing companions, historical timelines, or oral histories projects then I can help.
Hello! I’m Kate Thornhill
Digital Scholarship Librarian
I’m a digital librarian with over 10 years of experience working in academic libraries. I lead and contribute to digital research, education, and media programming and services.
If you’re looking for digital consultation support on how to build and maintain people focused digital archives, exhibits, maps, books, zines, scholarly publishing companions, historical timelines, or oral histories projects then I can help.
Specialization
Kate’s specialty is helping researchers, creatives, teachers, and students explore different technologies, methodologies, and techniques to enhance their research and teaching praxis within the arts and humanities and visual arts.
She can on how to make a technology-intense digital humanities projects, identify digital media literacy competencies for learners, how to design digital projects for your classroom. Kate also offers consultations for the long-term preservation of digital media and the systems available to assist with managing them.
Digital Humanities Projects
Creating digital cultural records at the intersection of digital technologies, methodologies, and humanistic inquiry.
Have you ever wondered how to make a digital humanities project? What tools and digital methods required making a digital archive, a digital book companion, annotate digital media, oral histories, or digital maps and timelines? Kate can help you think through project development and timelines, data management workflows, peer-review requirements, and more before diving into your new digital scholarship.
Digital Pedagogy
Teaching in the classroom to help learners becoming more aware about how to ethically engage and create digital media intense projects that use the Internet with emerging digital technologies and methods.
Are you interested in your learners becoming thriving life-long learners who ask questions and think critically about the creation, reuse, and sharing of digital media and technology? Are you interested in adding digital projects to your classroom teaching? Kate can work with you to figure out ways to integrate digital literacies into your workshops and classes. Topics could include copyright and fair use, information technology communication, self-publishing, and how to participate in safe, legal, inclusive and ethical online environments.
Digital Library Services
Cultural heritage needs to be accessible for the long-term beyond project endings. Whether you need someone to consult with on scanning, editing, and describing personal histories like photographs, documents, audio or video, selecting digital technologies to make digital media available online, or help thinking through digital storage needs. Kate is available to consult on how to develop and manage digital materials and providing long-term access for the future. She can also guide you through documenting annotations about your digital materials so you’ll never forget who is represented.
Education
Master of Library & Information Science 2013
Simmons University, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Arts, Art History 2010
University of Massachusetts North Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography 2010
University of Massachusetts North Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Professional Continuing Education
Library Carpentry Workshop, 2020
University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon
Workshops: Introduction to working with data (Regular Expressions); the UNIX Shell; OpenRefine; Introduction to Git
Oral History Training Institute, 2020
Science History Institute Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Week long in-person training for how to prepare and conduct oral history interviews, recordings, and transcriptions
Digital Humanities Summer Institute, 2019
University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Two week long workshops focused on critical digital pedagogy, LAMP Infrastructure for digital humanists, and making minimal computing digital editions
Certified Scrum Master Training, 2019
Scrum Master Alliance, Portland Oregon
Intensive in-person training about the fundamentals of SCUM project management for software development projects. Certified until 2021.
Introduction to GIS and Geoweb Technologies, 2018
Library Juice Academy, Online
Four week long online course about the fundamental of GIS and GeoWeb Technologies with lots of hands on geospatial projects and experience using tools like Google Earth, ArcGIS Online, and working with KML files
Introduction to Open Educational Resources, 2018
Library Juice Academy, Online
Four week long online course about the fundamental of open educational resources and how to propose an initiative at an academic library
Digital Library Pedagogy Road Test & Idea Fest, 2018
Digital Library Federation Forum. Las Vegas, Nevada
In-person workshop focused on the best practices of digital library pedagogy lesson plan design and run through of digital literacy oriented lesson plans created by librarians
Introduction to Product Management, 2017
General Assembly, Online
Online class focused on an introduction to the key technology product management concepts
DigCurr Professional Institute Training, 2016
University of North Carolina. Durham-Raleigh, North Carolina
Two week long intensive in-person training focused on digital stewardship best practices for electronic records
Teaching and Learning with Digital Media, 2015
Lesley University College of Education. Graduate Course
Online Teaching: Introduction to Design & Practice, 2015
Lesley University College of Education. Graduate Course
Online Teaching: Assessment & Evaluation, 2015
Lesley University College of Education. Graduate course
Online Teach: Social Media and the Classroom, 2015
Lesley University College of Education. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Graduate Course
ACRL New England Scholarly Communications SIG: Copyright Bootcamp, 2015
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Amherst, Massachusetts.
Social Science Librarian Bootcamp, 2014
Tufts University. Medford, Massachusetts
Data Skills
Information that describes data is a foundation of knowledge management. Since 2011, one of my strengths involves digital media metadata annotation, data tools, and application profile development for digital cultural heritage and research data. Below is a highlighted list.
- Knowledgeable
- Experienced
- Fluent
- Dublin Core
- EAD
- PBCore
- VRA Core 4
- CCO
- DACS
- Open Refine
- Microsoft Excel
- AAT
- TGN
- ULAN
- LCSH
- XML
- JSON
- XSL
Digital Technologies
Digital information communication technologies is a key to opening access to stories and ideas online. My experiences focus more on the user interface side of the tools, but I have experience setting up and maintaining some open source technology stacks. Below is a highlighted list.
- Knowledgeable
- Experienced
- Fluent
- Wordpress
- omeka classic
- Omeka S
- OHMS
- Panopto
- Scalar
- Photoshop
- Bepress
- ContentDM
- JStor Forum
- Samvera
- youtube
- vimeo
- indesign
- zoom
- skype
- ArcGIS StoryMaps
- Timeline JS
- StoryMap JS
- Audacity
Featured Digital Projects
A few digital projects that I’ve lead or contributed to over the years. For a complete list, check out my CV. The roles I’ve played in them range from:
- Digital Project Management
- Teaching Digital Tools, Methods, and Techniques
- Documenting Digital Workflows
- Developing Best Practices for Digital Assets Management
- Setting up Technical Infrastructure
- Transcription, Translation, Timestamp Quality Assurance
- Front-End Web Design
- Copyright Licensing and Fair Use
- Grant Consultation
- Usability Testing
Curently in Development: PlacePress WordPress Plugin
Community Engagement
Highlighted web projects supporting community based projects. For a complete list, check out my CV. The roles I’ve played range from:
- Web Development
- User Experience Consultation
Contact Kate
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