Author: Ava Kaplan

Ava Kaplan is a reference librarian at Bronx Community College and is finishing her MSLIS at the Pratt Institute with an advanced certificate in Digital Humanities. Her interests include information literacy, instruction, and data feminism.

Making the Desert Island Discs Dataset: Data Visceralization and How We Don’t Know What We Know

This collaborative project served as the capstone for our certificate in the Digital Humanities at Pratt Institute. We generated a collection of “data visceralizations,” including physical objects, sound…

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

After generating and modeling linked open data from Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a collection of documents from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s artist archive, the Semantic Lab is now focusing on how to leverage the data for archival exploration.