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Preserving British-American Tobacco Company Films from Early 20th Century China

This work was completed as a final project in the Film and Media Collections class at Pratt. It is a grant proposal seeking funding for the preservation of a collection of films made by the British-American Tobacco Company in early 20th century China.

Cataloging Moving Images

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…

Influence Network of Literary Authors

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.

Usability Testing of the NYARC Website

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…

Usability Testing of METRO.org

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…

Usability Testing of NYARC’s “This Kiss to the Whole World” Digital Exhibit

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…

Corporate Archives: A Brief Historical Overview and Examination of Their Value to Employees

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…

Digital Oral Histories: The Case of the Daughters of Bilitis Oral History Project

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…

Voces Digital Audio Achive

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…

Inclusion/Exclusion: Libraries and Race

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…

Remaking the Website for the Bibliographical Society of America

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: Weaving together American Textile Collections

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.

Oddball Film and Video Website Redesign Project

Our team selected a website and performed a redesign using information architecture and user design principles. Throughout the semester we created comparative reviews, site maps, user research and…

Place-things: Cataloging the Ephemeral

  This presentation explores the description of art works that are temporary in nature — in other words, works which are subject to change, alteration, or removal.  The…

Protective Boxes and Enclosures

The goal of this project was to create book enclosures, which are usually made to protect fine and rare books. For our boxes students used only archival, acid…

DPLA Exhibition: The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression

The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression, is an exhibition created in LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives for the DPLA Digital Curation Pilot. The exhibition was launched on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in Spring 2014

Community Design: West 104th Street Block Association

The Community Design team proposed a complete re-design of the West 104th Street Block Association website, including a completely overhauled information architecture and user interface. Project work included…

Brooklyn Borough President Website Redesign

The LUX team proposed a complete re-design of the Brooklyn Borough President’s website. This proposed redesign followed a series of steps beginning with an analysis of the current…

Adamo Art Gallery Website Redesign Project

The Corn Huskers design team proposed a complete re-design of the Adamo Art Gallery website, including a completely overhauled information architecture and user interface. Project work included a…

Hidden Worlds: Masking Gender in Science Fiction

This project conducted network analysis research on an online database of female-identified science fiction writers who wrote under pseudonyms, focusing particularly on those that used pseudonyms that were…