My first experience ever working in a museum was working on a massive initiative to digitize 14,000+ images (prints, glass plates, other negatives) at the  Museum of Vertebrate Zoology  in Berkeley, CA. In 2010 I began by doing data entry and georeferencing on these photographs. In 2014 as part of an MVZ Archives internship I processed and worked to digitize the 3000+ slide collection of Curator of Mammology James Patton. This included working with Archivists' Toolkit, the  Online Archive of California , and ARCTOS to digitize associated data and accompanying images. I even wrote a  blog  about my wonderful experiences at the MVZ.

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Later on in graduate school I also organized a training for students on  digitization  of natural history collections with iDigBio.

 

I have also been formally trained (and trained others) in object photography including composition, lighting, and digital storage. These are some examples of my experience in object photography. At the University of Colorado I primarily photographed basketry and other ethnographic objects. In my internship at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology I imaged and barcoded archeological collections as part of a collections move. 

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