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Comics for Classrooms: A Teaching Resource for Graphic Novels

May 7, 2019 / 0 comments

Our presentation explores how comics, graphic novels, and manga are great resources for teaching to a wide variety of learning styles and the ways they provide access to more diverse voices and experiences. Our Libguide “Comics for Classrooms” offers teaching resources, lesson plans, and diverse recommendations to facilitate bringing comics into the classroom. Author information…

Collection Management Systems and their Discontents: Cataloging Standards Implementation in Art Museum Collections

May 7, 2019 / 0 comments

Author information Eve Perry Eve currently works for Whirl-i-Gig, the creator of the open source software Collective Access. At Whirl-i-gig, Eve performs data modeling and develops digital management solutions for clients including museums and artist endowed foundations. Before joining Whirl-i-gig in 2019, Eve worked as the Collection Information and Digital Asset Manager at the Joan…

A MAP for HEMI: Cataloging Performance Art Videos

May 6, 2019 / 0 comments

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 and Politics (HEMI), in conjunction with New York University (NYU) Libraries. The goals of our Metadata Application Profile (MAP) revolve around the ability of users to access…

Working at a Digitally-Oriented Museum

May 2, 2019 / 0 comments

Emily Banks works at New York’s interactive, espionage museum, SPYSCAPE. It is an institution that is completely rooted in the technology world. The technology that makes up SPYSCAPE is ingrained in the galleries and makes it very different than a typical museum. I chose Banks to interview due to the fact that she works a…

Librarians of Tomorrow: SI Students Connecting with Teen Interns at the Brooklyn Public Library.

April 30, 2019 / 0 comments

This presentation will describe the two workshops (on data literacy and zines) that were facilitated as part of Brooklyn Public Library’s Librarians of Tomorrow teen internship program. Content will include information on the program, the workshop planning and implementation process, and evaluation material we received from project participants. Author information Carolyn Dellinger | The post…

Interview with Douglas Hegley

April 29, 2019 / 0 comments

Chief Digital Officer at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) By Gloriana Amador Agüero Douglas Hegley. Source: HMG Strategy Back in1915, in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) opened its doors to inspire the community through art and creativity. With more than 89,000 objects, visitors have enjoyed art from diverse cultures displayed in…

Importance of Highlighting Digital Engagement for the Audience in Digital Strategies

April 27, 2019 / 0 comments

Caroline Baer Introduction Cooper Hewitt With digital strategies becoming more and more prominent as part of museum planning, it is important to consider all that can be involved with them. The behind-the-scenes work in the museum is vital to its running. The data collection, digitization, increase of social media, and updated and easy-to-run websites are…

Digital Strategy as an Artist:

April 27, 2019 / 0 comments

Digital Strategy as an Artist Stitched Painting Cica Andre is a Brazilian artist, art educator and art tour guide. She used to work at a private art institute in Brazil (Instituto Bahia dos Vermelhos), but now runs her own company. She has artworks in permanent collections in museums around the world (in Shanghai, Hong-Kong, London, Helsinki,…

Documents as Data: Harvesting Knowledge from Textual Resources with DADAlytics

April 27, 2019 / 0 comments

DADAlytics is a semantic toolchain recently developed by the Semantic Lab at Pratt (semlab.io) to help librarians, archivists and humanities scholars generate linked data from textual resources and descriptive records. We will discuss opportunities and challenges of adopting linked open data technologies and discuss the development of DADAlytics. The use of DADAlytics will be contextualized…

Issues in Cataloging Rare Books

April 27, 2019 / 0 comments

Much research has gone into digitization and digital special collections development as a way of improving access to “hidden collections.” These efforts have spurred increases in access to, or at least general interest in, special collections. Most scholarship on digitization only briefly touches on the issue of cataloging backlogs as an impediment to access. However,…

Bronx River Trash Collection and Fecal Bacteria Analysis

April 26, 2019 / 0 comments

In October 2018, the Bronx River Alliance (BxRA) provided Professor Sula with some data for his Information Visualization class. The two datasets included one that showed how much trash was picked out of the Bronx River by BxRA volunteers and another that showed the prevalence of fecal bacteria (Enterococci) that had ended up in the…

Human grouping vs clustering, taking FIFA 2019 soccer player data as an example

April 21, 2019 / 0 comments

This is a network among the registered players in FIFA 2019, a well-known video game of soccer, with the nodes as players, and the edges as the shared skillset. In this network, the players have more similar skill set will have a stronger connection. The post Human grouping vs clustering, taking FIFA 2019 soccer player…

Dolphin social connection visualization

April 21, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction The bottlenose dolphin is a very intelligent social creature. Just like humans, dolphins group have their own social connection with each member. They communicate with their group by ultrasonic, which can help them exchange information and divide their work and make decisions. This visualization work shows a sample of a social network of 62……

Amazon POLITICS BOOK NETWORK: THe relationship of Books purchasing by the same buyer

April 20, 2019 / 0 comments

INTRODUCTION & RESEARCH In the past few months, I have always been researching on the passionate topic that it would drive me to visualize. Sometimes, it didn’t easy to look for relevant data on a certain topic. Amazon has more than 8 million Book sales on their platform. With this pig amount of books, it……

Network Analysis of Zachary’s karate club

April 20, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction Zachary’s karate club is a great example of social relationships within a small group. This set of data indicated the interactions of club members outside of the club. This dataset also documented the conflict between the instructor, Mr.Hi, and the club president, John because of course price. In the end, half of the members……

The Connection Between Words in Novel David Copperfield

April 20, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction I’ve always interested in anything about language and linguistics, especially to know how different language connect adjectives and nouns. I believe the language we speak would somehow impact how individuals perceive the world in their own way.Lera Boroditsky, a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition. Borodisky is now one……

Connections in the Marvel Universe

April 20, 2019 / 0 comments

The Marvel Universe is a fictional universe where the stories in most American comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Comics take place. It has a huge amount of characters which are all connected in some way. With more than 10,000 characters it can be hard to see the overall picture and how……

Networking diversity in children’s literature

April 20, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction For the past three months, I have been conducting a diversity audit of Brooklyn Heights Montessori School’s library collection. Using Karen Jensen’s Diversity Audit Outline, I am examining each book in the library’s Fiction collection to determine how much of the collection includes diverse experiences and representations. Examples of the diversity types include: ability……

World Trade Network in 1994

April 20, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction The network is a more complicated concept compared to other data vis genres. On a network the meanings of edges. Since the required elements of data are particular. There are not many options for me to choose from. I used the 1994 World Trade data from CASOS Public Datase1ts. Through the visualization of this……

Hollywood Film Music: NETWORK OF COMPOSERS AND PRODUCERS

April 18, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction This network contains the collaboration of 40 composers of film scores and the 62 producers who produced a minimum of five movies in Hollywood, 1964-1976. This is a 2-mode network: a line between a composer and a producer indicates that the former created the soundtrack for the movie produced by the latter. The line……

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