During this program, I came to enjoy the puzzle of metadata. Following my introduction to it in ISI 5302: Knowledge Organization, I took ISI 6732: Métadonnés et taxonomies and was able to apply my existing knowledge of metadata to the two cataloguing projects completed in ISI 6354: Cultural Heritage Resources. Metadata Schema Design The final […]
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Information Law & Policy
Through this program, I have developed an interest in information law and policy, particularly through the courses ISI 6711: L’information et la loi and ISI 6300: Open Access. Information Law In ISI 6711: L’information et la loi, we focused on different forms of intellectual property law in Canada, particularly copyright, patent, and trademark law. For […]
One of the last projects I took on during my undergraduate job in the University of King’s College’s archives was weeding, organizing, and creating a finding aid for a collection of documents from the King’s Chapel Choir. This project sparked my interest in organizing documents and information, which I pursued through taking ISI 6721: Archives […]
Through this program, I have expanded my skills in doing research and evaluating information in both academic and non-academic contexts. During the courses ISI 6300: Open Access and ISI 6371: Information Literacy, we discussed how to evaluate information at length, and the first two assignments linked below demonstrate this. The third assignment, a research proposal […]
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Planning & Collaboration
Beginning in my second semester of this degree, I joined the program’s student association, AESISSA. As part of AESISSA, I had the opportunity to work together with other members to plan and run events for students. During my second year, I also took over the responsibility of managing both the associations finances and the longer-term […]
I have excellent communication skills, written and spoken, and I have developed them in a variety of contexts, both before and during my MIS degree. Through my post-secondary career, I have developed skills in writing for public, academic, and professional audiences. For example, in 2020, I worked for the Discovery Centre in Halifax, NS as […]