Team Members

Kevin Clair, Penn State University Libraries

Kevin is the Digital Collections Librarian in the Research Informatics and Publishing department and the interim co-head of Collections Services in the Eberly Family Special Collections Library. He is the project coordinator for the People's Contest Digital Archive transcription efforts. He leads Penn State's efforts to promote research, instructional, and other re-use of digital collections, and collaborates with others on building and curating the collection.

Haven Harrington, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State University

Haven is a second-year student of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and German. She has so far contributed to collection analysis and assessment for preparing new collections for transcription as part of the Zooniverse project.

Eric Novotny, Penn State University Libraries

Eric is the History Librarian in the Arts and Humanities Library. He is one of the co-facilitators of the larger People's Contest Digital Archive initiative of which this transcription project is a part. He serves as a liaison with the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, and provides academic and research support and context for the project.

Team Alumni

Yue Tang, College of Education, Penn State University

Yue is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Theory and Policy in the College of Education. She worked on the project from August 2020 to August 2021, and played a key role in identifying Zooniverse as a transcription platform for our digital collections and in drafting the initial workflows, tutorials, and field guides that assist volunteers with transcribing People's Contest materials. She also prepared much of the initial collection assessment work that Haven is now continuing.

Advisors

In addition to the team members and alumni listed above, we would like to thank the following people for participating in our early "alpha" transcription events, and in providing technical assistance related both to Zooniverse and to making the transcriptions available for publication:

Lauren Cooper, Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State University Libraries
Bethann Rea, Preservation, Conservation, and Digitization, Penn State University Libraries
Terry Schiavone, Preservation, Conservation, and Digitization, Penn State University Libraries