Natalie Milbrodt

I am a practitioner, educator and consultant, specializing in post-custodial and community-driven archiving practice with an emphasis on project design and metadata best practices. As an information professional and content developer, I have over two decades of experience working in small business, academic, cultural heritage and library settings. I currently manage a Metadata Services division within a large public library's Technical Services department. I oversee archival digitization and the creation and management of metadata for the library's physical and digital collections. This includes the preservation of intangible cultural heritage and local history on behalf of the library's community-driven digital archives initiative, the Queens Memory Project. I currently serve on the Oral History Association's Metadata Task Force, responsible for the creation of the OHA Metadata Toolkit, designed to help teams working at all scales and stages of an oral history project's lifecycle to determine what information is important to preserve about their collections. I proudly serve as an advisory board member for New York State Historical Records, Design Dream Lab, The Municipal Art Society of New York's Enduring Culture Initiative, and Wikitongues.