Making Digital Content Accessible

FAIN: HC-275058-20

Sandy Spring Museum, Inc. (Sandy Spring, MD 20860-1001)
Allison Weiss (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2021)

Rehiring of four archives staff and two scholarly consultant positions lost due to budget shortfalls, as well as partial support for a folklorist curator, to digitize and interpret the museum’s collection.

A staff folklorist will make digital content accessible through highly interactive online programming, sharing stories found in the Museum's digital archives, in the Museum's research of the historically black communities of Sandy Spring, and through crowdsourced transcription of the Museum's archival resources. Staff will resume digitizing archives; contractors will resume work on the black history project.