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  • Finding rabbit holes in spreadsheets

    August 28, 2026

    I joined the archives as a subject-matter expert in physics, to help create metadata – essentially information about the existing digitized archival materials that makes it easier to be discovered, managed, and preserved. My role was to look at physics-related material at the archives through the lens of someone trained in the field. During my…

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