Visualizing Brooklyn The Brooklyn Visual Heritage Website Tula Giannini, PhD, MLS, MM, Dean & Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information & Library Science EVA Conference- London, July 29, 2013 Project CHART Cultural Heritage, Access Research & Technology
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Visualizing Brooklyn The Brooklyn Visual Heritage Website
Tula Giannini, PhD, MLS, MM, Dean & ProfessorPratt Institute, School of Information & Library Science
EVA Conference- London, July 29, 2013
Project CHART Cultural Heritage, Access Research & Technology
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
The Partners – building relationships
Left - Brooklyn Public Library
Right – Pratt, 14th St. Manhattan
Pratt Manhattan Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn Museum
Established in 1887, the year Pratt was founded, Pratt-SILS is the oldest LIS school in the US and the only one headquartered in Manhattan and has been continually accredited since ALA accreditation began in 1924.
Founded 1863, BHS is a museum, library, archive and educational center housing materials on Brooklyn History. BHS hosts over 9,000 members of the general public and programming for some 70,000 public school students and teachers annually.
At 560,000 square feet, the Brooklyn Museum holds NYC’s 2nd largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works. Founded in 1895, the Beaux-Arts building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, was planned to be the largest art museum in the world.
Central Library of the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) opened 1941. BPL is the fifth largest public library system in the US. In Fiscal Year 2009, BPL had the highest program attendance of any public library system in the United States.
An agency of the US government established in 1996, the IMLS is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums in the US of about $260,000,000 per year. Its mission is to "create strong libraries and museums that connect people with information and ideas.
Four IMLS grants to Pratt-SILS designed by Tula Giannini, principal investigator2005-2015 and PULSE, BPL partnering with Pratt, 2004-2007
Total - $3,307,812.00
Start and End Dates- Pratt Partners
Project Name and Logo
IMLS Award Number of Students and Focus
Student Support and Project Activities –
8/1/2004 - 7/31/2007IMLS Grant to BPL in collaboration with Pratt-SILSBrooklyn Public Library (BPL)
Public Urban Library Service Education
$536,890.00 21Preparing MSLIS students for careers in public urban libraries
-Fulltime urban librarian training positions at BPL-Tuition scholarships for the new urban public library curriculum-Workshops and seminars to enhance student learning
1. 8/1/2005- 7/31/2008 Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS)
GATEWAI Graduate Archives Training & Education, Work and Information
$591,206.00 30Physical organization of archival collections – Creating digital inventories using EAD
-Tuition Scholarships for Advanced Certificate in Archives (4, 3-credit courses)-Practicum Stipends-Study Materials-Laptop Computers-Practice-based research
2. 8/1/2008 – 7/31/2011 Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives (BM)
M-LEAD-1
$946,325.00 $190,000.00 supplemental funding for an additional 24 students & 10 LIS faculty for international study
30Cataloging, metadata, digitization of museum library & archives collections – Copyright work for permissionsDevelop museum libraries certificate
-Tuition scholarships for the 12-credit museum libraries certificate- Practicum stipends for internships at BM libraries, archives and digital collections- Funds for conference attendance by project staff and students- Project seminars and workshops- Funds for study materials
Digitization goal – 5,000 images, to date about 4,500
Project CHARTCultural Heritage Access Research & Technologyhttp://brooklynvisualheritage.org
$971,404.00 18-Cataloging, metadata and digitization of Brooklyn historical photography - Website- Developing curriculum for Digital Management Concentration
-Tuition scholarships for the 18-credit Digital Management for Cultural Heritage Program, six 3-credit courses (18-credits)- 2-semester practicum/ internship stipends (fall & spring)- Conference travel- Workshops & seminarsResearch on the 3 institution Web portal for Brooklyn Visual Heritage
$261,987 15Cataloging, metadata & digitization of collections
- Tuition scholarships and stipends for 2-semester practicum/ internships- ARLIS and ALA student memberships- Cataloging for Arcade - Digitization and metadata for collections, creating linked data
Explore alternative ways to explore images by location
Some options include:
• The implementation of an interactive map
• The development of a secondary navigation
system featuring neighborhoods
In order to address confusion about neighborhood
boundaries over time, we recommend exploring
the following options:
• Geotags
• Links to other relevant neighborhoods on
image pages
• A guide outlining the historical change of
neighborhoods
• Visual tools, such as maps or
timelines, that depict how
neighborhoods have changed over
time
Usability Test and Report
Testing done by Prof. Craig Macdonald and CHART students
Right – Recommendation 9 of 17.
Work in Progress on use of visualization
Many of usability test recommendations have been implemented.
Digital Convergence & Commonalities Across Libraries, Archives and Museums
Increasingly we see the world and ourselves as well in digital images - our digital self and reflections now seem real, or more so, as the space between real and digital blurs in our imagination and in reality.