Welcome! Since starting study here last year, I have been researching digital preservation and curation, database design, system administration, and information architecture.
I volunteer at the Austin Goodwill Computer Museum where I've designed and implemented a database and interface for tracking the museum's holdings and accessions which includes vintage hardware, software and engineer notes and manuals.
I recently finished an independent study for the museum. The goal is to write a final recommendation for the museum regarding it's metadata scheme, repository tools and software, encoding standards and element sets. I kept a blog of my notes and research. This semester I'm going to build the repository, and the blog will document that process.
I contribute to the Preserving Video Games research project, which aims to propose more meaningful models for the preservation of video games through an investigation of their creation process. We have interviewed game developers of all stripes and are currently overseeing studies investigating the communicative value of surrogate game media such as video, image and text. Check out the blog!
Please have a look around the site. You can find my resume, coursework and annotations. Thanks!
Last modified January 29, 2010