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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.
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…
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…
Once seen as distant and technical, cybersecurity threats now rival terrorism in their reach and impact. This exhibit draws on the last five years of FBI IC3 data…
“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…
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…
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…
Black Built Environment: race and architecture in America is a new ALA grant-funded research guide that supports a re-imagination of the architectural canon and more equitable practices across…
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…
In this paper, I delve into the world of gamification within the realm of human-computer interaction, with a particular emphasis on user experience. I am excited to share…
Parsnip is a cooking learning app that uses a tech tree of cooking skills to give beginners a place to start, the Duolingo style of learning cooking gamified…
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…
This collaborative project served as the capstone for our certificate in the Digital Humanities at Pratt Institute. We generated a collection of “data visceralizations,” including physical objects, sound…
We wanted to understand how Cooper Hewitt museum’s website visitors view the visual hierarchy of the Design Topics and Emerging Designer pages while browsing content on mobile devices. We conducted an eye-tracking usability study with 8 participants and made recommendations to clarify some of the website language and make the site more mobile-friendly.
Peshawar Scrapin’ is an exercise in rapid subject tagging of poorly-described of textual material. Using automatic and human-curated methods, I scraped 7,000+ PDF documents on the Soviet-Afghan War from the CIA’s website, expanding the CIA’s deficient metadata with the names of relevant persons, factions, places, and concepts.
Local news is dying and a new trend is emerging. Librarians are partnering with local journalists in various and unusual ways. It’s both a radical yet sensical way to try and rescue local news. The fact that libraries are trusted sources among local communities only strengthens the concept and the potential partnership. This paper will explore the different ways in which libraries and journalists are joining forces to tackle the local news crisis across the country
The poster will present a proposal for a research study that examines the relationship between individual differences (Need for Affect) and aesthetic judgements of website interfaces.
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.