by Haley Bryant
GRASAC members at the University of Toronto would like to extend an enormous thank you to our summer Work Study students, Chantelle Perreault, Olivia White, CJ Pentland, Rachel Barber-Pin, and Alesha Grummett-Roesch. CJ, Rachel, and Alesha prepared a batch of new records from the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin to be added to the GKS and provided a set of important recommendations for web and social media Rights and Reproductions Protocols as we continue our move toward a more public-facing GKS. Chantelle and Olivia spent the summer researching Controlled Vocabularies, or frameworks for organizing knowledge and information for retrieval in a database, in order to make recommendations on how we can better organize the information stored in the GKS. Their recommendations will help us make searching the GKS more straightforward and intuitive and move us toward our goal of building a database that recognizes and reflects relationality. We are lucky to have Chantelle and Olivia continuing their work and taking up new projects during the 2020-2021 academic year as interns with GRASAC. We are also excited to welcome a new group of Work Study students for 2020-2021: Autumn Epple and Sheila Kebokee who are MA students in the Department of History, Jessica Ye who is an undergraduate student in the Department of History, and Kelisha Peters who is an undergraduate in the Department of Linguistics and Graphic Media. They will continue to edit and add records in the GKS and research best practices for redeveloping the GKS as a public-facing platform.