{"id":3054,"date":"2026-05-17T11:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3054"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:26:36","slug":"rachel-white","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/profile\/rachel-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective metadata management allows library users to reliably discover, retrieve, and utilize the resources they need to complete their research journey.\u00a0 I have been helping library users accomplish this in government, public, and academic libraries for over two decades.\u00a0 I enjoy discovering and describing hidden collections, evaluating policies and workflows to shorten the time between acquisition and availability, and employing user-centered and culturally sensitive subject cataloging to connect people with the resources they seek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6021-3268\">ORCID<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Gentry, S., Hale, M.L., Payant, A., Tarver, H., White, R., Wittmann, R. (2020). Survey of benchmarks in metadata quality: initial findings. <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.library.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metadc1637685\">https:\/\/digital.library.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metadc163768<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.library.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metadc1637685\">5<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tarver, H., Hale, M., White, R., Gentry, S., Chartier, M., Wittmann, R. (2022). Metadata quality in digital libraries: an analysis of survey response data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpconline.org\/docs\/miscellaneous\/events\/2022-events\/2791-ipres-2022-proceedings\/file\">https:\/\/www.dpconline.org\/docs\/miscellaneous\/events\/2022-events\/2791-ipres-2022-proceedings\/file <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":8602,"template":"","profile_location":[],"profile_department":[9],"profile_subject":[],"profile_expertise":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3054\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profile_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_location?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"profile_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_department?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"profile_subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_subject?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"profile_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_expertise?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}