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Fidelity in Web Archives: The Luxury of Quality Assurance

Concluding a year-long web archiving fellowship at The Frick Collection, this project investigates the value of high fidelity web archives against institutional budget and staffing concerns. Using survey…

Militarization of Big Data

By Ellery Bruns, Tatum Cordy, and Erica Weidner Militarization of Big Data assesses and investigates the United States military’s use of big data to identify Generation Z individuals…

My Experience as a Fellow at the Pratt Center for Community Development 2023-2024

This project looks into the growth of the PCCD’s partner, Made in NYC which is an organization that works to help local New York businesses. Having started in…

Taylor Swift, Music Masters, and the Ownership of Ideas: A U.S. Copyright Regime Examination

In a thought-provoking exploration of the evolution of U.S. copyright law, this presentation unveils the paradoxical reality that the very system designed to incentivize creativity has become a…

MOCA Tucson Stay Gold: Digital

Moving Queer Community to Virtual Space During COVID-19: Lessons from Stay Gold When the COVID-19 pandemic forced museums to shut their doors in 2020, the Stay Gold program…

A Citation Study on the Interdisciplinary Field of Fat Studies

This citation study analyzes the journal “Fat Studies” as a representative of the emergent interdisciplinary field of the same name. This study seeks to provide an initial map…

Meet JJ: A Fun and Effective Design System for Jamba Juice

JJ is a design system, complete with UI kit and documentation website, that captures the creativity and delight of the Jamba Juice brand. Incorporating consistency, accessibility, and efficiency,…

Designing a Sustainable Operating System with Biomimicry and Green Design Strategies

This project speculates how digital products could help users reduce the overconsumption of information and carbon emissions by examining and applying strategies from the natural world. Principles of…

Modeling MoMA’s traveling exhibition history in Wikidata

The focus of Samie Konet’s 2023-2024 Pratt-MoMA Linked Open Data Fellowship project focused specifically on identifying and modeling the relationships between traveling exhibitions originating out of MoMA’s exhibition…

The Interconnectedness of All Things: Automatic Discovery for Digital Archives

Digital archivists often have to contend with the difficulties of processing messy collections. They may have to deal with thousands of files on different media, which may cost…

Preservation of Cultural Sites and Artifacts During Wartimes

This article and presentation are an overview of some of the foreign policies implemented regarding cultural heritage protection during wartimes. With specific focus on the Gulf Wars in…

Recreating Edgemere Farm’s magic in the digital landscape : Website Redesign for a non-profit community farm

Edgemere Farm, situated in Rockaway, NY, is a volunteer-run, zero-profit urban farm committed to offering produce, open space, and education to the historically low-income community. Our project involved…