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Neighborhood Resurrection: Reunion Trajectories

This data storytelling project investigates the story of three childhood best-friends and former refugees who who lost each other across continents for nearly four decades before reuniting in 2018.

It’s the Same War / All Your Tomorrows – An Archival Play

A full-length, 2.5 act archival play written for INFO-633 (Archives & Art Making, Dr. Kathy Carbone) using text pulled from the Pratt Institute digital collections from 1968-1970, primarily…

Challenges in Web Archiving: Insights from a Fellowship

This poster explores challenges in web archiving, observed from a fellowship for the New York Art Resources Consortium at the Frick Art Research Library. Topics covered include dynamic…

Human-Oriented Fast Fashion Framework (HOFF) for Digital Archives

Fast fashion is a business model employed by the fashion industry to produce large amounts of garments at cheap costs through reliance on outsourced labor and synthetic fabrics….

Our Streets, Our Stories: Post-Custodial Collecting at the Center for Brooklyn History

This presentation will touch on the experience of cataloging items from Our Streets Our, Stories by the Center For Brooklyn History’s Pratt Fellow. The Collection is a valuable case study on the importance of collecting robust metadata at the time of collection.

“Oyster Bisque”: A zine about food and archives

The inaugural issue of “Oyster Bisque” is inspired by the women who worked or studied at the Pratt Institute School of Household Science & Arts in the early…

“IT’S FUN TO BE CLASSIFIED”: Lens-based Artwork about Trans Oppression and Misrepresentation in Archives

An artist talk and exhibition of “IT’S FUN TO BE CLASSIFIED”, a series of lens-based mixed media collages. This work explores the history and contemporary legacy of categorization,…

Archives Weren’t Built In a Day: Artist Archives in Rome-New York

We are pleased to present Archives Weren’t Built In a Day: Artist Archives Rome-New York. Our presentation will cover our findings from the archival visits  conducted with the…

R.A.T.’s Nest: A Case Study in Archival Bonds, Orphan Image Research & Applying Radical Empathy

As archivists, how do the stories that we tell ourselves affect our work? Over the course of several months, I investigated a mysterious donation of photographs to the…

Pushing Past the Envelope: Visualizing the Mail-Art Network

Participatory, democratic, and unique,  Mail Art is exchanged via the postal service, and facilitates creative connections among artists across the world. This art form arose as a way…

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…

2021-2022 MoMA LOD Fellowship: Realizing MoMA Exhibition Data through Wikidata

In congruence with the ongoing efforts of MoMA to make its exhibition history available online, the work completed through my MoMA Linked Open Data Fellowship built upon work of previous fellows to model art exhibition event concepts through Wikidata, an open knowledge base, enabling a further reach and connectivity of the institution’s archive and collection data.

Preserving Twine Games with Web Archiving Tools

My final project for Digital Preservation and Curation examined using accessible web archiving tools to preserve hypertext interactive fiction games made with the platform Twine. The project addresses preservation concerns for the Twine format, with an emphasis on Twine’s interactive components, and on capturing the “experience” of a web page.

Semantic Lab at Pratt: Linked Data for Archival Exploration – A Use Case from the Rauschenberg Archives Part 1: Construction: Methods and Tools

The Semantic Lab has developed several innovative tools to facilitate digital arts and humanities research using linked open data principles and technologies. We will provide an overview of these tools and their applications by featuring use cases from the E.A.T.+LOD Project which focuses on archival documents from the Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) collection of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Semantic Lab at Pratt: Linked Data for Archival Exploration – A Use Case from the Rauschenberg Archives Part 2 Exploration: Queries and Visualizations

After generating and modeling linked open data from Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a collection of documents from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s artist archive, the Semantic Lab is now focusing on how to leverage the data for archival exploration.

Transforming XML for Digital Archives with Python and lxml

Digital archives systems often swap information encoded as XML. lxml is a Python library that can be combined with another analysis tools to design sophisticated transformations that save time and decrease errors in many digital archives workflows.

Curating and Describing LGBT Audiovisual Collections

In this presentation, Jessica Haba and Bonnie Whitehouse will discuss their work of curating and describing LGBT audiovisual collections housed at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. They will discuss representing collections online, employing metadata standards, and addressing culturally sensitive topics.

Digitizing LGBT History: Video, Audio and Film

In this presentation, Ali Post and Amy Rupert will present on the work of digitizing audiovisual collections from the Lesbian Herstory Archives. They will discuss the formats encountered and digitized, including U-Matic video, 1/4″ open-reel audio, bound oral history transcripts, and a multimedia film strip. They will discuss the work completed, challenges encountered and overcome, in working with these audiovisual records from the 20th century documenting the LGBTQ community.

Documenting Web Archiving Quality Assurance

This poster will outline a QA documentation workflow developed through the Frick Art Reference Library web archiving fellowship. This outline will emphasize strategies and software for staying organized, developing priorities, and writing legible documentation for the benefit of yourself and others working with the archive now and in the future.