{"id":258,"date":"2024-02-05T15:56:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=258"},"modified":"2024-02-05T15:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:56:25","slug":"breaking-down-van-buren-a-case-study-in-ethical-collections-management-cameron-findlay-23","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/portfolio\/breaking-down-van-buren-a-case-study-in-ethical-collections-management-cameron-findlay-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down Van Buren: A Case Study in Ethical Collections Management &#8211; Cameron Findlay &#8217;23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcg.is\/1mr8W00\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/350\/2024\/02\/Van-Buren-Pottery-1024x291.png\" alt=\"Breaking Down Van Buren\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/350\/2024\/02\/Van-Buren-Pottery-1024x291.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/350\/2024\/02\/Van-Buren-Pottery-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/350\/2024\/02\/Van-Buren-Pottery-768x218.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/350\/2024\/02\/Van-Buren-Pottery-880x250.png 880w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/350\/2024\/02\/Van-Buren-Pottery-220x63.png 220w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/350\/2024\/02\/Van-Buren-Pottery.png 1357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/arcg.is\/1mr8W00\">Breaking Down Van Buren: Collections Management in Practice &#8211; Cameron Findlay &#8217;23<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is based on the work myself and several other students are doing as Research Assistants for the Classics Department. Professor Rebecca Worsham is overseeing the project, while Tara Gadoury AC &#8217;23 and I are working together on the antiquities and Camilla Lashbrook &#8217;23 and Alice Tan &#8217;25 are working with the coin collection. Additionally, retired professor Scott Bradbury has worked with the collection for years and has put hundreds of hours into updating and maintaining it. I would also like to thank Carrie Evans, Five College Database Coordinator, for sharing her advice and resources to help me with this project. This work would not be possible without their research and expertise. Our \u2013 meaning everyone who has worked with the Van Buren collection so far \u2014 ultimate goal is to make this valuable collection more accessible to students and staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit Breaking Down Van Buren: Collections Management in Practice &#8211; Cameron Findlay &#8217;23 This project is based on the work myself and several other students are doing as Research Assistants for the Classics Department. Professor Rebecca Worsham is overseeing the project, while Tara Gadoury AC &#8217;23 and I are working together on the antiquities and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-258","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio-entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/258\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-type?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-tag?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}