Specialties

I can provide consulting on: digital libraries, the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), digital preservation, and digital curation. I can provide the following services: technical writing, process documentation, project management, web design, document design, and English-language editing (post-translation).

Documentation

• Technical writing: requirements documents, style guides, client specs, client surveys, communication briefs, change management, work breakdown structures, work flows, and process flows
• Project Management: project checklist, project proposal, project charter, project plan, status reports, roles and responsibilities, project summary and meeting summaries
• Document layout and design
• Redraft existing documents
• Write documents from functional descriptions
• Audit existing documents for improvements to clarity
• Produce documentation guidelines for staff
• Use of typography to improve clarity and understanding

Web and Technical

Installation and set up of blogs, wikis, and general web sites, including:

• Domain registration
• Design and lay out of web site
• Coding of web pages (all flavors of HTML, using CSS)
• Writing and editing of site content
• Web site maintenance (GUI and content)
• Updates and upgrades to site design and/or back end applications
• Documentation: style guide, site map, and paper prototypes

English-language Editing, post-Translation

I have over a decade of experience "cleaning up" the English-language version of a variety of documents, stories, and web sites after the content has been translated, primarily from Dutch and Japanese.

Research

I can offer the service of making a systematic inquiry into a topic of your choice and provide you with the written results as well as an analysis of my findings.

If you are interested in working with me on a larger academic or research project, please either email me or call me.

Graphic Design

• Freelancers with whom I can contract to create a logo, business cards, etc. for you
• Alternately, I can work with someone with whom you contract