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WeReaders A Case Study of the Use of Twitter in a Research Survey ewillse We tested Twitter as an instrument for recruiting participants and generating research data,…
Take Me, Buy Me, Read Me and Overheard Fans are two physical special collections created for a train-themed exhibit Commuting and Communing, the final project for the Museum…
The Donor Party, www.thedonorparty.com, is a linked open data website created by Pratt SILS students in The Museum and the Network class. It contains a home-made database and…
A social commentary paper on the feminist nature of Barry Deutsch’s graphic novel series, Hereville. Explores the complex depictions of the female characters, weaving in their various impacts on the story’s heroine.
Where are DH jobs located? What types of DH jobs are being posted (faculty, librarian, or other)? What types of skills are emphasized in these jobs and how…
IA Works proposed redesigning the I Need A Library Job website. Our goal was to make the website more user-friendly with a greater emphasis on showcasing job listings,…
Artists Archives Poster LIS653 (1)
Three recent projects demonstrate a move towards greater institutional convergence, data openness and read-write culture. First, Europeana launched in 2008 as Europe’s response to Google Books…
Poster created by students Annelise Ream, Andrew Wong-Crocitto, and Leah Honor for class presentation on radical cataloging. Highlights political biases in LCSH, religious alternatives to the flawed DDC…
Showcase Projects in Digital Archives (LIS 655-01) Presentation Student Names: Tali Chiyong Han, Eleanor Meyer, Genna Sarnak Title: Enriching the Jews in America Portal: A Metadata Harvesting Project Abstract: In…
The New York Public Library’s Map Warper is an open-source program for integrating scanned copies of historical maps from the NYPL’s collections with digital maps. Our tutorial, selected…
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…