Edward C Leinheiser Jr.

Metadata and Digitization Student Worker

1. Job function (e.g., overall role, assigned tasks)
   1. Managing Digital and Archival collections for the University
   2. Digitizing Documents from Special Collections
   3. Backing Up Collections in Online Databases
2. Examples of projects (e.g., list the projects you worked on and what you accomplished)
   1. Digitized and Managed Temple\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s Sci-Fi Corpus Collection
   2. Digitized and Managed Temple\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s Medieval Manuscript Special collections Project
   3. Created a script to Auto-Crop page scans
3. What you learned and how it relates to your major (e.g., describe what you learned from this experience in the context of specific courses)
   1. When I was brought onto the position (I worked with Temple from Fall 2017- Fall 2021) 50% of my work was dedicated to sourcing and upkeeping Professor CVs in Symplectic Elements (essentially a scholarly database software). We had to work with multiple other departments in the university to get the software to function correctly for each school in the University. This taught me a lot about special data types and confidentiality. Specifically, how much we had to adapt the system analyze mathematics CVs compared to those used in Liberal Arts programs.
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