National Digital Stewardship Residency

Meredith Broadway

Meredith Broadway is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School of Information and Library Science (GSLIS) program. At GSLIS, Meredith specialized in the Data Curation and Special Collection tracks and studied within the Socio-technical Data Analytics program. Matriculating through GSLIS, Meredith sought to supplement her humanities education with a digital scholarship component based in innovative technologies. Meredith also served as an intern within the Library of Congress’ Preservation Reformatting Division.

Meredith moved to Washington, D.C. from her hometown, Dallas, Texas. She received her bachelor’s degree in History with a specialization in 18th-19th c. Restoration Theatre at Rhodes College and conducted research on Oxford University’s 18th-19th c. London Stage Project. This interdisciplinary project encouraged Meredith to think about the longevity and sustainability of analog and born-digital material, as well as how information is made accessible for researchers in the digital age. This interest led her to the Library and Information Science field.

Meredith’s professional interests include data visualization, open access (including copyright and sui generis), and linked data. In her free time Meredith enjoys urban hiking with friends, catching up on her to-read list, listening to podcasts, and adding to her collection of succulents.

As the NDSR-DC resident at the World Bank Group Archives, Meredith is focusing on an assessment framework and appraisal guidelines for identification of data for permanent preservation; a set of analytic process document guidelines to enable documentation of processes used in the collection and analysis of data; and guidelines for linking datasets to related documents and analytical reports.