Parent Institution Name
Address
Harvard Law School Library
1545 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
1545 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Supervisor Email
Project Details
This internship would be suitable for either LIS 438 or LIS 512.
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 project consists of working on a number of tasks relating to metadata curation, trial-transcript tagging, and critical evaluation of the project website (https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu).
Various tasks will be assigned during the internship, selected from the following:
1. Project website user testing: we are now in the process of upgrading our current project website and need users to thoroughly test and evaluate the new development version of the site to help us deteremine its overall usefulness and convenience, as well as offer recommendations for specific modifications.
2. Tagging of trial-transcript document citations: we have around 150,000 pages of transcripts for all trials and are in the process of tagging document references with links to our document viewer to enable the user to view documents in context. While most of the document references can be programmatically tagged, many more complex references need human evalutaion to be properly tagged.
3. Metadata curation: we have vendor-generated raw descriptive document metadata for a large number of our trial documents which need to be reviewed for accuracy and completeness and revised where necessary as well as tagged for document genre.
All work will be done remotely using digital tools such as our project website, our online image-viewer for viewing document page images, and various Google docs for reviewing and revising document metadata and doing transcript work.
The student will report to the Nuremberg project manager. On-boarding and check-ins as needed with the project manager will be scheduled via Zoom.
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 project consists of working on a number of tasks relating to metadata curation, trial-transcript tagging, and critical evaluation of the project website (https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu).
Various tasks will be assigned during the internship, selected from the following:
1. Project website user testing: we are now in the process of upgrading our current project website and need users to thoroughly test and evaluate the new development version of the site to help us deteremine its overall usefulness and convenience, as well as offer recommendations for specific modifications.
2. Tagging of trial-transcript document citations: we have around 150,000 pages of transcripts for all trials and are in the process of tagging document references with links to our document viewer to enable the user to view documents in context. While most of the document references can be programmatically tagged, many more complex references need human evalutaion to be properly tagged.
3. Metadata curation: we have vendor-generated raw descriptive document metadata for a large number of our trial documents which need to be reviewed for accuracy and completeness and revised where necessary as well as tagged for document genre.
All work will be done remotely using digital tools such as our project website, our online image-viewer for viewing document page images, and various Google docs for reviewing and revising document metadata and doing transcript work.
The student will report to the Nuremberg project manager. On-boarding and check-ins as needed with the project manager will be scheduled via Zoom.
Are you willing to complete two evaluations of your students progress through out the course of the semester?
Yes
Requirements
Only English-language skills, ability to consistently attend to detail, and basic familiarity with spreadsheets are required.
Supervisor Phone
6175384580
How many positions do you have available?
3
Supervisor Name
Paul Deschner
Assignment
Course Option
LIS 438
Semester
Fall 2023
Department
HLSL Digital Initiatives