Major
History
Anticipated Graduation Year
2025
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract
This presentation will describe the experience of working on an in-progress digital archival database of primary sources related to eating disorders and other related issues and their role in how eating disorders are discussed. Over the course of the Fall semester, I worked on metadata creation for hundreds of different types of sources. This process of source metadata creation involved thorough reading in order to accurately create specific metadata, even when the content would be extremely disturbing, and determine what would be best to make these sources most accessible through specified “tags”. This type of work improved my technical and archival skills in showcasing how digital archives and their sources are worked on, created and managed for an issue which has been even more essential to discuss and have sources be accessible in the modern day.
Faculty Mentors & Instructors
Dr. Alice Weinreb, Supervisor and Associate Professor, Loyola University History Department; Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Internship Course Instructor and Associate Professor, Loyola University History Department
Supported By
CELTS - Mellon Scholarship for Unpaid Interns
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
The Work of Creating a Digital Archive Database on Eating Disorders: An Intern’s Experience
This presentation will describe the experience of working on an in-progress digital archival database of primary sources related to eating disorders and other related issues and their role in how eating disorders are discussed. Over the course of the Fall semester, I worked on metadata creation for hundreds of different types of sources. This process of source metadata creation involved thorough reading in order to accurately create specific metadata, even when the content would be extremely disturbing, and determine what would be best to make these sources most accessible through specified “tags”. This type of work improved my technical and archival skills in showcasing how digital archives and their sources are worked on, created and managed for an issue which has been even more essential to discuss and have sources be accessible in the modern day.