What Does a Metadata Librarian Do?

HMML@Home visits Dr. Catherine Walsh, the Director of Cataloging at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML). Walsh gives a sneak peek into the world of metadata - the data that helps describe descriptive information – in this case, about manuscripts, their texts, authors, titles, and provenance. Walk through the world of databases and metadata and see how the work describing manuscripts is advancing scholarship on history, culture, and languages, around the world.

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library is a global cultural heritage organization focused on the preservation and sharing of endangered manuscripts from across faith traditions. HMML's work ensures that manuscripts threatened by war, disasters, looting, and neglect are preserved and accessible for future generations. Preserving cultural heritage since 1965, HMML’s archives now contain approximately 300,000 manuscripts, ranging in size from large codices of hundreds of folios to brief documents consisting of just a few leaves.

Find out more at HMML.org