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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.
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.
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.
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.
In this lightning talk, Olivia Mueller will discuss the design and technology work that went into creating the Oral History Project for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). The JDC is a worldwide humanitarian relief organization created during World War I to provide relief to Jewish communities in Europe. The JDC was instrumental during WWII in getting Jews out of Nazi-occupied Europe, and resettling Jews after the war through Displaced Persons Camps. In this class project, students worked to transform a collection of analog oral histories into a web-based digital archive. Olivia will focus most closely on the design and technology aspects.
Title: Research, Documentation and Metadata Aspects of the JDC Oral History Project Presenter: Deimosa Webber-Bey, dwebberb@pratt.edu Presentation Type: 4-minute Lightning Talk Description: In this lightning talk, Deimosa Webber-Bey…
This research project explores what the role of a prison librarian is, and how they must work between two oppositional institutions to uphold the informational rights of inmates.
A series of instructional videos created by students in LIS 619: International Information Sources for the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld library.
In 2009, with great fanfare, the U.S. Government granted solar panel manufacturer Solyndra more than half a billion dollars in loans. By September 2011, the company was bankrupt and its executives were invoking their Fifth Amendment rights. What went wrong?
The relationship between the United States and Mexico has always been a complicated and tumultuous one concerning land, people, and culture. Many parts of the United States that we know as the west coast and southwest today, at one point used to belong to Mexico. Today, it seems very few people seem to realize this. One of the domestic issues in politics today regards immigration and border patrol around Mexico. However, Mexican immigration to the United States is a more recent phenomenon from the last twenty years. The fact of the matter is that certain parts of the United States were Mexico at some point, and a lot of the people who were living in those territories were already Mexican people. In many ways, the story of the Mexican worker in the west coast is parallel to other stories of imperialism, however, the story of Mexican workers, in particular the bracero program seems to be a forgotten chapter in the history of the United States.
International agreements attempt to ensure that looted antiquities, artwork and other cultural objects are returned to their rightful owners, but success depends on whether or not individual countries dedicate the necessary resources to opening up archives and support the process of restitution.
This lightening talk will address Google Scholar’s Legal Documents Database and its place within the historical development of open access to legal information. In addition, unlike the vast majority of online legal research databases, Google Scholar is created with non-expert users in mind, although it is not clear whether this will prove to be a benefit or detriment to the legal and legal information professions.
The primary purposes of a library include collecting information, and then organizing that information or knowledge in its collection into some systematic order so that it can be easily retrieved and used. Tools used to organize knowledge include classification systems, controlled vocabularies, and the library catalog. It is the thesis of this paper that the implications of knowledge organization systems should be further investigated as purposive human activities that influence people’s understandings and perceptions. In this regard, the works of Michel Foucault on discourse and power are helpful in examining knowledge organization practices. Discourse can be defined as a set of rules, usually expressed through language and behavior, which limits what can be said and thought about a phenomenon, and how it can be analyzed and evaluated. Discourse shapes knowledge, defines what is “normal,” and so is a form of power and influence when embedded in institutional practices. Despite the application of Foucault’s theories in LIS scholarship, there remains a need to analyze the library as an institution for discursive activity. One way to start such an analysis is through an organizational ethnography of knowledge organization activities that take place in libraries.
Social networking sites challenge the concept of privacy as they continually modify their privacy policies. Existing on the Internet, which has no central governance, allows social networks to create their own philosophies about privacy and decide how to handle end-user information.
The growth of online publishing is intended to accelerate academic research, yet corporate business models of database vendors and publishers are hindering the proliferation of scholarship. This presentation explores recent conflicts with attention to actions and positions of the academic community.