Joel Burges

The Rochester Digital Annotation Project has two primary objectives: 1) to grapple with how digital annotation can enable community members and scholarly researchers to understand the racial and sexual histories in various audiovisual archives held in Rochester and 2) to explore how to generate accurate and inclusive data and metadata about these archives over which community members and scholarly researchers have shared authority. To these ends we will prototype five data dictionaries through the digital annotation of a selection of materials from the Portable Channel collection held by the Rochester-based Visual Studies Workshop: two centered in the knowledge and needs of Black and LGBTQ+ communities and three in the knowledge and needs of Black studies, queer studies, and media studies.