This website showcases a broad range of my skills and knowledge. It demonstrates my aptitude for creating and working with digital content; my facility for metadata structures, schemas, and vocabularies; and my concise writing style. The site meets PLO 3 by analyzing and deeply engaging in the intricacies of digital libraries. The growing need for ethical, accessible, and well-organized digital collections represents one aspect of the rapidly changing roles and responsibilities of information professionals as we continuously adapt to an increasingly digitized, globalized information environment.

The Max Parker Naval Service Collection addresses several professional competencies for the cataloging and metadata professions; most notably, the Application Profile section demonstrates the incorporation of content and value standards and controlled vocabularies for use in a local context, employs mapping between standards, and clearly documents local metadata decisions. Furthermore, the Application Profile is the product of a group project that required extensive collaboration, clear communication, and mutually respectful dialogue over the course of several weeks.