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This research project takes a look at the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which is a subject-specific open-access digital library created and maintained by a consortium of natural history and…
We created an instructional video on citation and plagiarism for students at Stevens Institute and built a library instruction lesson plan around it, focusing on famous cases of…
Dutch Baroque Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Quantitative Assessment of a Collection
These visualizations are based on the metadata assigned to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Dutch-painting collection. They are meant to facilitate trend detection and sense making with respect to the Museum’s acquisitions history and collection strengths in this fine-art area.
This project uses an avatar to illustrate the issues and barriers facing a youth who has low vision when they use the library. It consists of a graphic…
This presentation will consider a few trends in information economics by first defining the information economy and addressing how the inputs and outputs of knowledge industries are measured….
This poster compares and contrasts the administration, content and delivery of two web-based Data Management Curricula: MANTRA from the University of Edinburgh, and the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum (NECDMC) from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Inspired, in part, by my reaction to a classmate’s tweet, highlighting the effectiveness of a recent campaign to raise funds for the Rhode Island Library Association, this paper…
Our project is a poster about Cataloging Moving Images across time. We examine the different formats and standards used by various institutions to catalog moving images from Edison…
The selection of authors in the network is made up of fiction and poetry writers of various subdivisions. The Network of Literary Authors is derived from curated SPARQL queries for ‘influenced/influenced by’ DBpedia properties and shows color groupings representing only 19 communities based on influence connections between nearly 1000 authors.
The team worked with NYARC to plan and conduct a usability test of the newly redesigned NYARC website, identifying several areas of improvement in the areas of content…
The team planned and conducted a usability test of the METRO.org website on behalf of the Metropolitan Library Council, using the UserZoom online platform to record and track…
The team planned and conduct a usability test of the recently released website of the digital exhibit “This Kiss to the Whole World” on behalf of NYARC. Conducted…
Contemporary large corporations such as IBM or Wells Fargo employ as many people as lived in the ancient city-state such as Alexandria, with its Great Library. Many large…
In this presentation, Laura Cooper Brown will present the class project from LIS 668 Projects in Moving Image and Sound Archiving, which is the digital video oral history…
CentroSILS showcase Presentation Laura Marte Piccini and Alexandra O’Hara will present on Voces Digital Audio Archive, which is a digital archives created by students in LIS 665 Projects…
Race remains one of the touchiest and most heated subjects of our culture, yet direct conversation on it can be rare. It may seem a problematic topic for…
Throughout the Fall 2013 semester, Lauren Reinhalter, Rob Hudson and Laura Brown (RHB), redesigned the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) website. RHB’s goal in the redesign was to…
Warp and Weft is a linked data website collecting textiles from the Met and Cooper-Hewitt. We will cover the stages of a LOD-LAM project, from the underlying data model, to converting records into RDF triples, and building the Drupal website.