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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
During my time as the Pratt Fellow in the Brooklyn Museum Archives I worked on processing and completing a finding aid for one of the most utilized collections that is currently also the most challenging to access. This collection comprises the bulk of the institution’s visual representation, the Department of Photography records [PHO]. As part of processing the collection, I had to extract information about the collection from Microsoft Access and migrate it to ArchivesSpace. My poster presentation will showcase some of my experiences while completing this project.
This presentation is intended to guide the creation and implementation of metadata for an online digital video library of performances and interviews from the Hemispheric Institute of Performance…
This paper examines the right to be forgotten (RTBF) in the context of archival practice, specifically the ways in which it may impact digital archives that collect social media content.
For this project, Micaela Walker obtained an orphaned set of 35mm slides from a junk store. The slides depict family photos from the mid / late 20th century and contained very little information to identify or describe them. Using strong research skills and following best practices, Ms. Walker successfully digitized and cataloged these images, effectively demonstrating what insights can be gleaned from anonymous, abandoned materials.
Homemaking: Modern Architecture and Decorative Crafts from the Bill Maris and Julie Semel Collection
This exhibition contains images by Bill Maris and Julie Semel, architectural and design photographers. During the 1970s and 1980s, architectural firms and magazines regularly commissioned their work. “Homemaking” compares their creative output, highlighting the spectrum of modern homes and the ornamentation that defined domesticity in the late 20th-century.
This paper will discuss governments as sources of evidence and how they can be used to conceal human rights abuses and perpetuate state-sponsored narratives of truth. Using the British Empire’s systematic imprisonment and abuse of the Mau Mau in Kenya as a case study, I will consider the ways in which colonial governments have favored certain types of records and organizational structures over others to avoid accountability, maintain idealized narratives of nation and empire, and suppress and erase histories of subjugated cultures.