When Rebecka Sheffield worked with the Collaboratory, she was a doctoral candidate at the iSchool at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. Rebecka stewarded the development of the Collaboratory’s Islandora platform, designed metadata standards for the project, and created partnership agreements between collaborating institutions. Since leaving the Collaboratory, her book Documenting Rebellions, a study of four archives that were constituted with a common desire to preserve the memory and evidence of lesbian and gay people and which was based on her dissertation, has been published to great acclaim. Rebecka is now a professional archivist working in Ontario.


