InfoShow22 Program

InfoShow22 is the annual showcase and celebration of Pratt School of Information student work, and is part of Pratt Shows. InfoShow22 is taking place on Friday, May 13, 2022 5:30-7:30pm ET, followed by the School of Information Graduation Party from 7:30-9:30pm.

Register to attend in-person at Pratt Manhattan Center (144 W. 14th St. NYC) or online via the PrattShows website.

Please note that virtual attendees will be automatically joined with the presentations in room 610. You can find a PDF version of this program here.

Welcome 5:30-5:35pm – InfoLounge (6th Floor Lobby)

Session 1 – 5:35pm-6:35pm

1.1 Archives & Cultural Heritage – room 609
Moderator: Dr. Irene Lopatovska

Metadata Application Profile: Streaming Performance Art Videos
Sarah Cuk, Julie Carlson, Ali Post and Emma Volk

Digitizing LGBT History: Video, Audio and Film
Amy Rupert, Ali Post and Alan Webber

Curating and Describing LGBT Audiovisual Collections
Jessica Haba and Bonnie Whitehouse

Using Interactive Maps to Visualize the Relationship between Food and Empire in the Early Modern Era
Kira Zimmerman

1.2.  Linked Data – room 613 
Moderator: Dr. Cristina Pattuelli

Semantic Lab at Pratt: Linked Data for Archival Exploration – A Use Case from the Rauschenberg Archives Part 1: Construction: Methods and Tools
Ellis Mikelić and Teresa Ferguson

Semantic Lab at Pratt: Linked Data for Archival Exploration – A Use Case from the Rauschenberg Archives Part 2: Exploration: Queries and Visualizations
Jessika Davis and Ava Kaplan

2021-2022 MoMA LOD Fellowship: Realizing MoMA Exhibition Data through Wikidata
Jessika Davis

1.3  Usability & UX – room 610
Moderator: Dr. Nancy Smith

Improving The Accessibility Of Research Materials For The Accademia Di San Luca
Arthi Sundararajan

Cooper Hewitt: Mobile Website Eye-Tracking Usability Study
Olivia Turpin, Yuki Shimano, Wuke Zhou and Shih Wen Huang

A Usability Study of the MCN Members Portal
Venera Zaripova, Ariella Brown, Vanshika Shah and Yuxin Huang

1.4  In the Real and Virtual World – room 606
Moderator: Dr. Chris Alen Sula

A Year at Cooper Hewitt
Christy LaPerriere and Ali Ciftci

A digital visualization tool for anglers In NYC
Jacob Choi

Preserving Twine Games with Web Archiving Tools
Hanna Pennington

Tracing The Aesthetics Of Online Gentrification
Alyce Currier

Session 2 – 6:45-7:30pm

2.1 UX, Museums & More – room 610
Moderator: Dr. Craig MacDonald

Building UX Capacity in Museums
Danielle Kingberg, Kyle Kisicki, Rachel Jackson, Qin Shi, Kate Nadel, Hriti Prashant Shah and Nora Gordon 

Archaid – Improve remote work (Building professionals edition)
Monicaa Lakshmi Gopi Krishna (Joining Virtually)

Using eye-tracking to improve the Met’s interactive digital features
Kyle Kisicki, Xiujie Bi, Chris Denney, Mayank Gupta and Raunak Jangid

2.2 Libraries & Archives – 609
Moderator: Dr. Monica Maceli

Transforming XML for Digital Archives with Python and lxml
Jack OMalley

Increasing Visibility at the Thomas J. Watson Library
Mary Dickson

Work at the Watson (Pratt Met Fellow Presentation)
Grace Zhang

2.3 Zines, Special Collections & LibGuides – room 613
Moderator: Alex Austin

Dissection: Curious Objects in Special Collections
Alex Austin

CSS Styling for LibGuides
Alex Austin

Zines: A basic guide to finding, making, and teaching zines.
Alex Austin

2.4 Poster Session – room 608

Documenting Web Archiving Quality Assurance
Olivia Meehan

So You Want to Be a Boss: Redesigning a Management/Leadership Course for Pratt iSchool Students
Eesha Parasnis

MoMA Library’s Reading Room in the Time of COVID-19
Nicoletta Romano

Virtual Exhibition

Mangroverse – 2021 Florida Hackathon with IBM Winner
Lillian Yang, Jungmin Choi and Jen Lee

School of Information Graduation Party
7:30-9:30pm ~ 7th Floor