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The Greek American Folklore Society (Astoria, NY) is home to the extensive and as-yet uncatalogued Paul Ginis Costume Collection. Approximately 250 traditional Greek folk costumes, in addition to…
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.
This project focuses on refugees from Ethiopia (and what is now Eritrea) in the late 80s to early 90s. Using conflict and elevation data along with testimonials from former refugees, a corridor was created to estimate.
Museums, galleries, and other GLAM spaces serve millions of visitors from around the world each year, and yet most of these institute do not provide may languages for…
“Word Portraits” is a paper quilt composed of 12 hand-embroidered tiles, each one pairing a word in Arabic with its Portuguese equivalent. Stitched in black and green thread…
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.
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…
A research project in three parts, showing how the layering of multiple datasets over both the present-day map of Paris and selected historical maps can illuminate the timeline…
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…
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.
Survey of technology’s influence on genealogy, describing a selection of important digital tools relevant to genealogical research, and analyzing their implications in access, preservation, and ethics.
In this paper, I discuss the history of copyright’s development, highlighting the steady increase in control of copyright holders as well as explaining the limited protections extended to libraries and archives. I use several case studies to illustrate the role of risk management and its uneven success in the digitization of library and archival resources. Finally, I propose several alternative ways of addressing the challenge that copyright poses, including the suggestion that judicial lawmaking would be an effective way to clarify the applicability of the fair use doctrine.
As the Pratt Digital Preservation & Archives Fellow at NYPL, I’ve been working with the Library’s Digital Archivist to address issues surrounding software preservation. This presentation will discuss such digital preservation tools as Wikidata, PRONOM, and Archivematica—and how they’ve been implemented toward the long-term preservation of a proprietary software and its associated file formats.
Mock grant proposal to support the improvement of the British Museum’s existing provenance linked data for its collection of 100,000+ Egyptian-made cultural artifacts. The expansion of the British Museum’s provenance linked data will allow the museum’s collection to be more fully represented in linked data visualizations, while making visualizations of the artifacts themselves more comprehensive, improving scholars’ capacity to research the histories of these artifacts and those of the cultures that produced them.
Poster showcase of the image of George Thames, White House photographer
The Local 496 Project transforms the American Federation of Music’s Local 496 union list into a semantic data network. This document is a 1940’s directory of the segregated African-American chapter of New Orleans jazz musicians. This project will highlight the Batiste family network, many of whom are listed in the directory.
This poster presents my research of how current art museum practices are shifting systematic gentrification of their audiences through diversifying staff, collections, and community engagement.
The integration of UX practices into art museum operations helps to develop visitor experiences, but art museums have great responsibility to the communities of learners local to them. Art museums can focus on their roles as educators by applying LX (learner experience design) for effective meaning-making.
This presentation provides an technical overview of initiating Linked Open Data (LOD) in the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the 2017-2018 LOD for Museums Fellowship.