Nuremberg Trials Project Metadata Creation and Curation for LIS 438

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:
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. 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
3. 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