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Usability report detailing the overall usability of the Morgan Library and Museum website along with four concrete recommendations to improve the website for both new and returning visitors.
An overview of the various user-centered steps in the journey to redesign the website of the Huntington Historical Society. By combining design principles, many stages of user testing, and analysis of user data, Four Corners Design produced a new information architecture for the Huntington Historical Society website and a design prototype.
A story about re-designing UbuWeb, an independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde. The goals of the re-design were to (1) make the website accessible to non-specialists; (2) improve the organization of Ubu’s content; (3) improve the site’s visual design; (4) increase user engagement; and (5) maintain UbuWeb’s unique aesthetic and identity.
For Professor Cocciolo’s Fall 2015 course “Management of Archives and Special Collections” our class processed files relating to the founding of Pratt Institute Free Library School (now School of Information). These files were removed from the School decades ago by a professor who had hoped to write a book. The files had been returned years ago, but were brought to Professor Cocciolo’s attention this past year. Our task was to figure out the best possible way to process these “recovered files.” Since the official records of the School have a finding aid and are housed in the Pratt Institute Archives, we decided to figure out where the documents in the files might belong in the institutional archives. Using the series and subseries in the already established finding aid, we wrote a new finding aid in AtoM explaining the files’ history and our belief that these recovered files should be reintegrated into their rightful home in the institutional archives.
Alt_Text: A Bibliographic Nightmare – This game was created as part of the LIS-664 Web Development class at the Pratt School of Information
The People v. Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden announced he will return to the United States to stand trial if the US government guarantees him a fair trial that will allow him to make a public interest defense.
LIS 611 Information Policies and Politics, will give him one.
Please join us at the #infoshow as we let the jury decide:
Judge: Briana Moore
Edward Snowden: Kolbe Resnick
For the Prosecution: Elizabeth Frank ; William Hagenah ; Coral Salomon ; Michele Drohan
For the Defense: Maryanne Hall ; Laura Childs ; Carmen Irabien ; Allison Nellis
Expert witness for the defence representing NSWBC: Laurin Paradise
Expert witness for the prosecution representing NSA: Debbie Rabina
Court recorders and Jury: Nataya Culler ; Mia Bruner ; Samantha Levin ; Katherine Martinez
With votes for the audience
In this presentation, students from Management of Archives & Special Collections will discuss the exhibition and curation of records from Pratt School of Information, which is on-display now on the 6th floor. They will also discuss the conservation work of fragile late 19th century and early 20th century records.
In this presentation, students from Management of Archives & Special Collections will present the work in processing the records of Pratt School of Information, including making appraisal decisions and creating an online DACS/EAD finding aid. Records cover the activity of the school from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Treaties are living documents that link Native American Nations with the Federal Government of the United States, and their multifaceted conditions continue to raise numerous questions in our post colonial age. A combination of multiple word frequencies attempt to provide further insight in treaties with 142 Native American Nations.
This project examines how network visualizations can be used in literary analysis. I created a series of network graphs for three comics by B.K. Vaughn and used them to analyze the character structure in the comics and across Vaughn’s work.
Corporate Archives are important to American culture, and can also be a source of revenue for corporations as well as a way to connect with consumers. Corporate Archivist role is best as archivist and communicator.
For the past two semesters, we have been working as NYARC interns located at the Frick doing web archiving of various types of sites (galleries, museums, catalogue raisonnes). We would like to share about the processing of web archiving using Archive-It as well as other new technologies such as Rhizome’s web recorder.
Our project, Artists’ Books Holdings, is an attempt to analyze and visualize data about artists’ books holdings on an international scale. This project is a work in progress created in LIS 644- Programming for cultural heritage. It illustrates our ability to work with data in a programmatic manner and create visualizations that represent data in a more human readable manner.
Christina, Mariaelena and Eugene will present the class’s work on archiving an architectural photography collection, specifically the Bill Maris and Julie Semel Collection. Work includes making enhancements to an online DACS/EAD finding aid, curating an exhibition of the photographer’s work, processing and rehousing the collection, and digitizing select photographs.
Things Fall Apart is a poster promoting the value of collection weeding.
This study aims to shed light on conversations of surveillance over the past 40 years of American discourse, using a corpus of Congressional records, mainstream and independent news sources, movie scrips and reviews, and archival materials. By comparing general and specific sentiment measurement across these various sources, we examine points of similarity and difference in attitude across the present and past, cultural and countercultural, institutional and popular with regard to surveillance—watching surveillance, as it were, through assemblages of text and data.
A frequent cultural topic is if women are regularly portrayed in mass media, and if they are present behind the scenes. Using data analysis, I looked at mass-marketed comics to see if women are increasingly being represented on both sides of the page.