Author: Jessika Davis

MS Museum and Digital Culture '23 | Advanced Certificate in Digital Humanities | Linked Open Data | Museums | Art | Dance | Data Visualization + Physicalization + Visceralization Exploration | Information Technologies | Human-computer Interactions | Purveyor of Connections

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…

Designing Supportive Conversational Agents With and For Teens

This co-authored short paper and poster by Pratt Associate Professor Irene Lopatovska and Jessika Davis, MS Museums & Digital Culture ’23, was accepted and presented at the 2023…

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

In congruence with the ongoing efforts of MoMA to make its exhibition history available online, the work completed through my MoMA Linked Open Data Fellowship built upon work of previous fellows to model art exhibition event concepts through Wikidata, an open knowledge base, enabling a further reach and connectivity of the institution’s archive and collection data.

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.