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Snippets & Credits: Empowering avid listeners to actively support and discover their next favorite artists [Amazon Music Challenge]

Streaming has changed how people listen to music and constitutes 62.1% of the total music industry’s revenue. Gen-Z is an emerging audience that prioritizes short-form content discovery and…

WatsOnline at Watson: a Year at the Met’s library

We will be presenting on our fellowship at the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art including projects we contributed to, lessons learned, and some…

Significance of Interlibrary loan(ILL) Data in Collection Development

At Pratt Institute Libraries we collected and analyzed Interlibrary Loan data from the year 2020 through 2022.  The objective of the project was to study Interlibrary loan patterns…

QUILT: Queer Intimacies Located in Thread

QUILT is a digital humanities project that merges textile arts, digital mapping, and storytelling. It is a patchwork quilted map of New York City embedded with queer memories…

Designing Supportive Conversational Agents With and For Teens

This co-authored short paper and poster by Pratt Associate Professor Irene Lopatovska and Jessika Davis, MS Museums & Digital Culture ’23, was accepted and presented at the 2023…

Why Webtoons Work!

Webtoon is a new format for digital comics that is reinvigorating webcomic publishing that libraries should be paying attention to. Its accessibility on mobile devices, and its being…

Capturing Impermanence: How & Why to Archive Your Website

As the two Web Archiving Fellows for The Frick Reference Library & NYARC, Anna Collins and Ellis Mikelić present a poster on how web archiving is a critical…

Death Plan

“Death Plan” is an approachable picture book for adults that uses rhyming text and whimsical watercolor illustrations to mimic the style of a children’s nursery rhyme or picture…

Linked Open Data: Uploading MoMA Artist and Exhibition Metadata to Wikidata

With Fellow Allysha A. Leonard You can view the presentation here. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P4vVwc7MkNOYyXmy8GR2CzQDc0fsK6XH6wpiN4Om1Mg/edit?usp=sharing MS Graduation Portfoliohttps://allyshaaleonard.wixsite.com/pratt-portfolio                     The presentation will discuss the…

Tracking Archival Collections Use at the Center for Brooklyn History

As a fellow at the Center for Brooklyn History Othmer Library, I undertook a long-term project to record and analyze data from the call slips used to request…

Information & Human Rights – A Research Guide / LibGuide for Information and Action

The Selected Topics in Information & Human Rights resource guide is a LibGuide that focuses on human rights as they relate to information and the information professions. Multiple…

Evaluating the Digital Experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

This project assesses digital content at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It asks: How are digital components embedded in a cultural institution as large as the Met? And…

Ethics in Video Game UX

Deceptive design, or dark patterns, in user experience has been the target of extensive attention in recent years, especially within the context of video games. Dark patterns are…

Restore Film Screening (select portion): Straight Talk about Lesbians

We will present the restored film strip Straight Talk About Lesbians, a 1980 educational film strip by Elizabeth Diamond. The film features women discussing their experiences, histories, and…

Preserving and Restoring LGBTQ+ Archive

  This panel will focus on the work from Pratt MSLIS students over the last two semesters, coming together in conversation to discuss their developments, challenges, outcomes, and…

Analyzing The Implications Of Color Vision Deficiency In A Creative Career

This novel study aims to identify the factors that contribute to developing a creative career, and explore the ways in which CVD can be limiting a professional environment…

Contextualizing AI-Generated Transcripts for Researchers

This past summer, I completed a Data Science Fellowship at the UCSFS’s Industry Documents Library. The UCSF Industry Documents Library is a vast collection of resources encompassing documents, images, videos,…

InfoShow22 Program

InfoShow22 is the annual showcase and celebration of Pratt School of Information student work, and is part of Pratt Shows. InfoShow22 is taking place on Friday, May 13, 2022 5:30-7:30pm ET, followed by the…

Using Interactive Maps to Visualize the Relationship between Food and Empire in the Early Modern Era

This engaging digital exhibit combines custom interactive maps with 17th-century cookbooks to communicate the concrete relationship between food and empire that fueled the rapid expansion of global trade, expansion, exploration, and extraction in the early modern era.

Using eye-tracking to improve the Met’s interactive digital features

This eye-tracking usability study evaluated two aspects of the Met’s website that present content is markedly different ways: the interactive Close Look articles and the digital collection experience. As a result, we identified key findings and developed design recommendations which we ultimately presented to the Met’s digital product team.