Parent Institution Name
Address
Harvard Law School Library
1545 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
1545 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Supervisor Email
Project Details
In this internship, the student will assist on the Nuremberg Trials Project, an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images and full-text versions of Harvard Law School Library's documents relating to the thirteen war-crimes trials held at Nuremberg, Germany 1945-1949. The internship tasks consist of working on a number of tasks relating to trial-transcript tagging and curation of metadata driving discovery on our project website (https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu). The work is exclusively remote, involving online tools such as Google spreadsheets and documents, and an online document page-image viewer. Tasks will be selected from the following after consultation with the intern:
1. Tagging of trial-transcript document citations: we have around 150,000 pages of trial transcripts and are in the process of tagging document references with links to our document viewer to enable users to view documents in context. While most of the document references can be programmatically tagged, many more complex references -- such as prosecution and defense trial exhibits -- need human evaluation to be properly tagged
2. Assignment of text images to documents: we need in some cases to assign new text images to their respective documents in proper sequence and in other cases need to verify existing raw image assignments, making sure document boundaries and image sequences are properly accounted for
3. Verification of AI-generated document summaries and genre categorizations: this involves spot-checking descriptive document metadata created by AI tools and assessing the general strength of AI to accurately accomplish metadata tasks for our project
4. Creation of "Other Resources" page for our project website: involves researching the web to discover, describe and assess websites offering access to Nuremberg-related materials and compiling a listing we can offer our website users
5. Website review and testing: we are in the process of redesigning and re-implementing parts of our website, and are employing review and test data relating to the new website to help us in that work
6. Other metadata-related tasks involving assessment and, where necessary, correction of descriptive document metadata before it can be deployed to drive the search function on our project website
1. Tagging of trial-transcript document citations: we have around 150,000 pages of trial transcripts and are in the process of tagging document references with links to our document viewer to enable users to view documents in context. While most of the document references can be programmatically tagged, many more complex references -- such as prosecution and defense trial exhibits -- need human evaluation to be properly tagged
2. Assignment of text images to documents: we need in some cases to assign new text images to their respective documents in proper sequence and in other cases need to verify existing raw image assignments, making sure document boundaries and image sequences are properly accounted for
3. Verification of AI-generated document summaries and genre categorizations: this involves spot-checking descriptive document metadata created by AI tools and assessing the general strength of AI to accurately accomplish metadata tasks for our project
4. Creation of "Other Resources" page for our project website: involves researching the web to discover, describe and assess websites offering access to Nuremberg-related materials and compiling a listing we can offer our website users
5. Website review and testing: we are in the process of redesigning and re-implementing parts of our website, and are employing review and test data relating to the new website to help us in that work
6. Other metadata-related tasks involving assessment and, where necessary, correction of descriptive document metadata before it can be deployed to drive the search function on our project website
Are you willing to complete two evaluations of your students progress through out the course of the semester?
Yes
Requirements
Basic familiarity with archival work, spreadsheet fundamentals
Supervisor Phone
6175384580
How many positions do you have available?
1
Supervisor Name
Paul Deschner
Assignment
Course Option
LIS 512
Semester
Spring 2025
Department
Digital Initiatives
State
MA