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There is opportunity for the discussion to begin, as the role of the LMS changes with implementation of nationwide Common Core Standards. Once considered irrelevant to education, the LMS and the library are suddenly imperative to the transformations taking place in education due to these Standards.
A poster showcasing the steps of the user-centered design process for a (hypothetical) re-design of the website for the Fluvanna Free Library in Jamestown, NY. Students will show…
Archives store, maintain and organize a variety of primary sources, which can range from letters to audiovisual recordings along with any primary documentation in-between. Archiving cemeteries offer an…
Using exploratory methods of Linked and Open Data, “Perspectives of Origin: A Geographic Encounter” project seeks to display specific geographic origin information of cultural heritage objects from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A comparison of three contemporary libraries – Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts at Yale; Sendai Mediatheque in Japan; Seattle Central Library in Oregon. With Beinecke as the touchstone, a study of how the contemporary library incorporates a traditional book library and expands to include any/all other media and a community’s desires and expectations of the role of their library. Intended to elicit further discussion and study of how modern libraries serve us architecturally.
Linked Incunables is a scholarly tool that provides geospatial referencing for works from the incunabular period (ca. 1455-1501) of early European printing by converting catalog information from the New York Public Library’s Rare Book Division into linked data format.
This data quilt, an information visualization, is the second in a series of textile objects that archive an ongoing digital humanities research project/blog: Runaway Quilt Project.
While technology has made digitization of books possible, the conversion to digital surrogates does not resolve the controversial question of where and how we should preserve our vast collections of original source materials.
Personal Information Management (PIM) is about keeping information and organizing it in such a way that we can find it when we need it. Our research defines the growing perimeters of PIM, explores the User-Subjective Approach as a model for design and investigates potential implications in the reference environment.
Augmented reality is a ‘location-aware,’ emerging technology comprising of a digital overlay of computer-generated imagery within the real-world environment. Allowing for instant access and direct interaction through the…
This paper surveys the landscape of linked open data projects in cultural heritage, examining the work of groups from around the world. Building on the five-star method, we developed a six-stage life cycle describing both dataset development and dataset usage.
Radical cataloging seeks to give a voice to people and concepts that are difficult to access through traditional library subject searches. In this session, we will discuss problematic…
Survey of 31 digital fashion archives/websites to access what the characteristics of an ideal fashion archive should include. Results were narrowed down to 8 showcase institutions who were…
In a collaborative study carried out by Professor Pattuelli’s Fall 2012 Human Information Behavior class, students designed a qualitative research study that sought to reveal common themes relating to reader preferences when choosing between electronic and print material, specifically in an academic context.
Folksonomies allow a richer discovery experience for museum website and database users by mapping social tagging to curatorial vocabularies.
In this talk we will demonstrate a map illustrating the path traveled by the protagonist of the novel The Dewey Decimal System by Nathan Larson. We will discuss how interactive mapping tools can be used to enhance literacy.
Students mapped a work of fiction by charting one character’s movements through New York City. The result is a resource that enhances a reader’s experience and gestures toward ways in which stories may become truly intertextual. In this project, our group created an interactive map using Prezi for the book It’s Like This, Cat written by Emily Cheney Neville which is about the friendship between 14-year-old Dave Mitchell and his college-aged friend Tom, and the cat that brought them together. Among other things, this map includes sites that Dave and Tom visited such as: the 59th Street Bridge, the New York Public Library, and Coney Island with interactive features including embedded videos, discussion questions, and activities geared to middle-grades students.
This project uses data generated in LIS 643 and network visualization software used in LIS 658 to analyze participants’ grouping of web pages during a cardsort exercise and explores the efficacy of using network visualizations of this data.