Collections as Data: Part to Whole Cohort 1 projects are complete and all deliverables are now available. Cohort 1 spans the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Carnegie Museum of Art, University of Denver, Weeksville Heritage Center, University of Pittsburgh, and Northwestern University. Final reports present lessons learned and links to documentation, data, code, and more. We could not have imagined a better set of compassionate, brilliant, and inspiring people to work with. In challenging times, they have demonstrated unwavering commitments to each other and their communities.
Our intention is that these six teams, and the six teams that follow them, will define and develop a range of approaches that support collections as data implementation and use. We believe that the viability of collections as data work depends on the development of approaches that map to diverse institutional contexts, resource assumptions, and community commitments. There is no singular collections as data model and we feel that cultivating diversity in approach continues to show promise.
Cohort 1 has dedicated critical thought and work to the potential of collections as data.
We thank them for this 💫 spark in the dark 💫.
Thomas, Hannah, Stewart, Yasmeen
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On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
María R. Estorino, Amanda Henley, Matt Jansen, Lorin Bruckner, Sarah Carrier, William Sturkey
Uncovering Health History: Transcribing and Publishing Early Twentieth-Century Tuberculosis Patient Records as Data
University of Denver
Kim Pham, Kevin Clair, Jack Maness, Jeanne Abrams, Fernando Reyes, Jeff Rynhart, Alice Tarrant
Collections as Data: Redefining Creators, Users, and Stewards of the Charles “Teenie” Harris Photographic Archival Collection
Carnegie Museum of Art
Dominique Luster, Charlene Foggie-Barnett, Ed Motznik, Samantha Ticknor
Linking Lost Jazz Shrines
Weeksville Heritage Center
Obden Mondésir, Zakiya Collier, Sarah Adams, M. Cristina Pattuelli
The Native American Educational Services College Digital Library Project
Northwestern University
Josh Honn, Kelly Wisecup, John Dorr, Dorene Wiese, Melanie Cloud, Allison Conner
From Collection Records to Data Layers: A Critical Experiment in Collaborative Practice
University of Pittsburgh
Tyrica Terry Kapral, Aaron Brenner, Matthew J. Lavin, Gesina Philips
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