Transcript Presentation for “Cultural Heritage Preservation Education

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
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
The Partners – building relationships
Pratt Manhattan
Brooklyn Historical Society
Left - Brooklyn
Public Library
Right – Pratt,
14th St.
Manhattan
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 BeauxArts 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 investigator
2005-2015 and PULSE, BPL partnering with Pratt, 2004-2007
Total - $3,307,812.00
Start and End
DatesPratt Partners
Project Name
and Logo
IMLS Award
Number of
Students
and Focus
Student Support and
Project Activities –
8/1/2004 7/31/2007
IMLS Grant to
BPL in
collaboration
with Pratt-SILS
Brooklyn Public
Library (BPL)
Public Urban
Library Service
Education
$536,890.00
21
Preparing
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
Start & End
Dates- Pratt
Partners
1. 8/1/20057/31/2008
Brooklyn
Historical
Society (BHS)
Project Name
and Logo
GATEWAI
Graduate
Archives
Training &
Education,
Work and
Information
2. 8/1/2008 –
7/31/2011
IMLS Award
Number of
Students and
Focus
-Tuition Scholarships for
Advanced Certificate in
Physical
Archives (4, 3-credit courses)
organization of
-Practicum Stipends
archival
-Study Materials
collections –
-Laptop Computers
Creating digital
inventories using -Practice-based research
EAD
$591,206.00 30
$946,325.00 30
$190,000.00
supplemental
funding for an
additional 24
students & 10
LIS faculty for
international
study
Brooklyn
Museum
Libraries &
Archives (BM)
M-LEAD-1
Student Support and
Project Activities –
Cataloging,
metadata,
digitization of
museum library
& archives
collections –
Copyright work
for permissions
Develop
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
Start & End
Dates- Pratt
Partners
Project Name
and Logo
3. 8/1/2010 –
7/31/2013
IMLS Award
Number of
Student Support and
Students and Project Activities –
Focus
$971,404.00
18
-Cataloging,
metadata and
digitization of
Brooklyn
historical
photography
- Website
- Developing
curriculum for
Digital
Management
Concentration
BHS, BPL, BM
Digitization
goal – 5,000
images, to
date about
4,500
4. 7/31/2012
– 8/1/2015
BM, Frick
Reference
Library,
NYARC (NY
Resources
Consortium)
Project CHART
Cultural Heritage
Access Research &
Technology
http://brooklynvisual
heritage.org
$261,987
15
Cataloging,
metadata &
digitization of
collections
M-LEAD-TWO
Technology - Web
Online
-Tuition scholarships for
the 18-credit Digital
Management for Cultural
Heritage Program, six 3credit courses (18-credits)
- 2-semester practicum/
internship stipends (fall &
spring)
- Conference travel
- Workshops & seminars
Research on the 3
institution Web portal for
Brooklyn Visual Heritage
- 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
1. Project CHART Demonstration
http://brooklynvisualheritage.org
2. PRATT – New Curriculum, Research,
Technology & Pedagogy –
Digital Management for Cultural Heritage
3. Issues and Challenges
Project Activities
Education@Pratt-SILS
• Students undertake the new program
• Students carry-out 2-semester
Internships with stipend at partner
institutions
• Example of a student project:
•
http://www.thisismattmiller.com/practicum/
Brooklyn Visual Heritage.org
• Project CHART creates BVH website a new digital resource of historical
photography
• Free public access using the open
access platform - Drupal
12 new courses for CHART- e.g.:
• Cultural Heritage Description &
Access
• Programming for Cultural Heritage
• Digital Preservation & Curation
• Information Visualization
• Museums and the Network
• Projects in Linked Open Data
BHS-Coney Island Boardwalk, Children - 1984
Project Outcomes and Impact
• Education & Students
• Brooklyn Visual Heritage
• 18 students graduated with
their MSLIS
• 90% of CHART graduates gained
professional positions
• Images continue to be added
BM – Lantern slide – Pratt Institute-1899
BPL – Children at Dodger parade - 1949
• Work on social media in
progress
• Digitized over 12,000 historic
photographs of Brooklyn
Brooklyn Visual Heritage – A work in Progress
Student project using GIS
Pratt Institute Gateway features BVH images
Photo left: The first
trolley car in Brooklyn
was run in 1891. The
first trolley car in
Brooklyn was run in
1891.
BVH page with
metadata
A Research Core
Cultural Informatics Lab
http://research.prattsils.org
Classrooms
designed for
a research/
project
pedagogy
Faculty and
Student
Research
Student
Showcase
Practicum/
Internships
Explore alternative ways to
explore images by location
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.
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
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.
Thank you
[email protected]
www.brooklynvisualheritage.org