Greg Kenyon Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia

Served as co-lead of team working on the strategic plan for the museum becoming "digital first." This role included drafting policies and workflows for object acquisition and cataloguing to ensure the creation of high-quality digital records.Designed, developed, and published a new exhibition website for the exhibition "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution" in the Drupal Content Management System. Migrated 600 digital assets including 200 objects and 400… Show more Served as co-lead of team working on the strategic plan for the museum becoming "digital first." This role included drafting policies and workflows for object acquisition and cataloguing to ensure the creation of high-quality digital records.Designed, developed, and published a new exhibition website for the exhibition "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution" in the Drupal Content Management System. Migrated 600 digital assets including 200 objects and 400 graphics from the old site.Archived old site with httrack and scraped data with Python to ensure portability of visitor feedback and experiences.Used WebVTT to provide captions for old audio and video oral histories associated with the exhibit. Show less

Washington, District Of Columbia

I worked with curatorial staff and to compose web labels for objects in collections across the museum. I then collaborated the Digital Programs Office to link images to object records, use existing data and metadata tools to import the object records to MIMSY XG (our SQL database), and export the images to our Image Delivery System (IDS).Collaborated with staff in other curatorial divisions, the Smithsonian Libraries, and the Archives to establish best practices for streamlining… Show more I worked with curatorial staff and to compose web labels for objects in collections across the museum. I then collaborated the Digital Programs Office to link images to object records, use existing data and metadata tools to import the object records to MIMSY XG (our SQL database), and export the images to our Image Delivery System (IDS).Collaborated with staff in other curatorial divisions, the Smithsonian Libraries, and the Archives to establish best practices for streamlining digitized content from the individual repositories to the DAMS, IDS, and Enterprise Digital Asset Network (EDAN) for use in digital projects.Worked with stakeholders from across the Smithsonian Institution to create digital content for the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad using digital assets from multiple collections and repositories.Conceived and created the web mapping project "Mappable" to view digital collections objects data on a map to explore the geography of NMAH collections outside the search box. The project received an Innovation Fund award of $20,000. Designed content management workflows for digital collections data to facilitate the implementation of the EDAN API in future map updates.Designed content workflows to enable the use of IIIF-enabled images to create custom JSON manifests from both NMAH records and Library of Congress images for display on website exhibitions and Object Groups.Integrated the Museum’s digital collections content into multiple storytelling tools offered by ESRI through ArcGIS.Created two new exhibition websites for the division of Work and Industry: “America on the Move” and “Between a Rock and a Hard Place.” In assembling these websites, I produced new photography for over 300 objects and digitized existing object photography and graphics.Used R and Rstudio to create a Shiny app to provide a friendly web-interface for storage room environmental data collected from HOBO bluetooth Data Loggers. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

As a contractor on the Collections on the Web team, I managed collections in MIMSY XG to publish over 30,000 objects to the web and created over 30 new Object Groups with the Drupal-based Object Group Management Tool. Publishing these records to the web required knowledge of the museum’s functions, standards, methodology, and best practices for the care and preservation of collections through the museum’s database of record, MIMSY XG. I photographed objects to create almost 30,000… Show more As a contractor on the Collections on the Web team, I managed collections in MIMSY XG to publish over 30,000 objects to the web and created over 30 new Object Groups with the Drupal-based Object Group Management Tool. Publishing these records to the web required knowledge of the museum’s functions, standards, methodology, and best practices for the care and preservation of collections through the museum’s database of record, MIMSY XG. I photographed objects to create almost 30,000 digital surrogates that have been linked to their record data through MIMSY XG and processed the digital content to the DAMS and IDS. Skills used included Adobe Suite products including Photoshop and Bridge to process image metadata.I used my extensive knowledge of collections to answer questions from researchers and Smithsonian partners including supplying graphics to SI partners in product development for Pearson educational videos. Using my knowledge of museum objects and the collections, I responded to loan requests from institutions across the Smithsonian Institution. My contribution to Cooper-Hewitt was published in the exhibition catalogue for the Cooper Hewitt's "Tools" exhibition. I worked with the Exhibits Department for several exhibitions, including “FOOD: Transforming the American Table”, “American Enterprise,” “American Stories,” “Inventing in America,” and the “Object Project” supplying graphics information and object dimensions for brackets; noting any long-term care issues, including light sensitivity; and suggesting objects for rotations.Through conducting object-based historical research and creating online Object Groups, I developed excellent skills in identifying graphics from both published and unpublished sources, as well as in using Photoshop skills to create new graphics. During this work, I also trained interns, employees, and volunteers in data and image standards, metadata requirements, web group development, and record and data maintenance. Show less

As a contractor on the 5028 collections inventory team, I used my extensive knowledge of metadata standards, data management methodology, imaging techniques, and best practices for the physical care and preservation of collections during the inventory. I captured digital content in the NMAH collection information system MIMSY XG through scanning catalog cards and accession files as well as manually entering catalog information into MIMSY XG. I attached digital images or PDF… Show more As a contractor on the 5028 collections inventory team, I used my extensive knowledge of metadata standards, data management methodology, imaging techniques, and best practices for the physical care and preservation of collections during the inventory. I captured digital content in the NMAH collection information system MIMSY XG through scanning catalog cards and accession files as well as manually entering catalog information into MIMSY XG. I attached digital images or PDF scans to over 14,000 objects using the principles, concepts, and best practices as outlined by Collection Documentation Services. I also approved legal title of records; linked object records to their accession; and worked with museum staff to correctly link people and places to their associated records. Show less

Handled research requests from public, worked with museum database, wrote for museum’s blog, and began NPG’s Twitter feed.

Worked as an intern interacting with visitors, handling research requests, and doing research and writing for future online exhibition.

Worked as an associate interacting with customers, developed personal communication skills with public and colleagues

Bachelor Of Arts, English, History

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa Outstanding Graduate in History (May 2008) University Honors Citation (April 2006) Dean’s List.

Graduate, History

Masters in history focusing on 20th century intellectual history. Thesis analyzed the political economy of monopolies, tracking.