The Brooklyn Visual Heritage Website Brooklyn’s Museums and Libraries Collaborate for Project CHART Tula Giannini , Dean & Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information & Library Science Jonathan Bowen , Professor Birmingham City University, Computer Science Museums and the Web 2014 Baltimore, USA, April 5, 2014
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The Brooklyn Visual Heritage Website: Brooklyn’s Museums and Libraries Collaborate for Project CHART
The Brooklyn Visual Heritage website (http://brooklynvisualheritage.org) represents a new visual resource for cultural heritage. The site was created as part of Project CHART (Cultural Heritage, Access, Research and Technology), a three-year collaborative project (2010-2013) funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) between Pratt School of Information and Library Science and three of New York’s leading cultural Institutions, the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum, and Brooklyn Public Library. This paper examines the Brooklyn Visual Heritage website from the diverse perspectives of these cultural institutions and the communities they serve, from geographic communities to those of scholars, historians, and educators, while also addressing technical aspects of user experience and the challenges of cross institutional collaboration. We consider questions of shared decision-making on website design, public access and use as well as issues regarding how the BVH collections will continue to grow, while expanding the use of social media to promote greater community participation as part of a sustainable model.
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The Brooklyn Visual Heritage Website Brooklyn’s Museums and Libraries Collaborate
for Project CHART
Tula Giannini, Dean & Professor
Pratt Institute, School of Information & Library Science
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.”
Why should educational and cultural institutions collaborate on digitization projects through funded partnerships?
• Link the physical and digital worlds
• Opportunities for external funding
• Prepare information professionals for careers
• Foster innovation, creative work, access and use
• Expand online scholarly resources for research
• Increase public awareness, collection connections, user participation
Grant projects create a dynamic learning environment
fund new ideas, directions and development
• Collaboration – Partnerships, funded projects
• Trends over grant period – 2004-present – digital collections
and tools of the information professions
• Grants support commonalities across libraries, archives and
museums
Pratt’s IMLS grants support curriculum development, pedagogy