221 research outputs found
FRICKbits
No full textReview of FRICKbits, Reviewed October 2015 by Alexandra Provo, Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University [email protected]
Florentine Renaissance Drawings: A Linked Catalog for the Semantic Web
No full textThe Drawings of the Florentine Painters by Bernard Berenson has been an essential source for art historians since it first appeared in 1903 and remains so today. Though many catalogs of drawings exist for individual collections and artists, Berenson’s study is the only resource that includes examples from across the Western world by nearly seventy Florentine painters, from Taddeo Gaddi in the fourteenth century through Bronzino in the sixteenth. The Florentine Renaissance Drawings project makes Berenson’s invaluable catalog information available in a machinereadable format. As with most projects that transform textual art documentation into digital editions, the authors faced challenges in maintaining a balance between making data scalable and preserving the nuances of the original text. This study demonstrates how Linked Open Data (LOD) technology allows one to maintain the complexity of source data while allowing for standardization of terms and concepts
The Drawings of the Florentine Painters: From Print Catalog to Linked Open Data
No full textThe Drawings of The Florentine Painters project created the first online database of Florentine Renaissance drawings by applying Linked Open Data (LOD) techniques to a foundational text of the same name, first published by Bernard Berenson in 1903 (revised and expanded editions, 1938 and 1961). The goal was to make Berenson’s catalog information—still an essential information resource today—available in a machinereadable format, allowing researchers to access the source content through open data services. This paper provides a technical overview of the methods and processes applied in the conversion of Berenson’s catalog to LOD using the CIDOCCRM ontology; it also discusses the different phases of the project, focusing on the challenges and issues of data transformation and publishing. The project was funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and organized by Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Catalog: http://florentinedrawings.itatti.harvard.edu Data Endpoint: http://data.itatti.harvard.ed
Semantic Encyclopedias and Boolean Dreams
No full textWhen metadata becomes knowledge, opportunities for multiplicity and risks of harm and exclusion arise. As GLAM institutions contribute to the Semantic Web, we must pay attention to the implications of participation. While the Semantic Web grew out of the flourishing of web technologies in the 1990s, recognizing its roots in classical/symbolic AI (referred to as Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence, or GOFAI)—in particular, expert systems and knowledge representation—encourages critical questions like: which problems from knowledge representation and expert systems does the Semantic Web inherit? Are GOFAI failures really failures, or does the gap between rhetoric and practice point to generative possibilities (some of which can now be seen in Semantic Web initiatives)? What can we learn from AI critics, feminist approaches, and the unmasking of encyclopedic neutrality? This research article will explore how critiques of AI expert systems and Cyc, an ongoing project to create a common sense knowledge base, might apply to Semantic Web efforts like Wikipedia, Wikidata, DBpedia, and Schema.org
De veiligheid van de Oosterscheldedijken in relatie tot het gebruik van de stormvloedkering
No full textOnderzoek naar de sterkte van de dijken rond de Oosterschelde in relatie tot de andere belasting die zal optreden bij sluiting van de stormvloedkering (met name een stagnante waterstand gedurende meerdere getijdenen en bijbehorende golfaanval).Prov
Ebook User Expectations
No full textThis document synthesizes existing user research on ebooks, proposes user stories for the Enhanced Networked Monographs (ENM) reader interface, and poses questions for further investigation.
Research confirms the desirability of full-text search, annotation, and navigation using internal links within an ebook. Downloading, printing, and copying/pasting are also important. Though navigation via internal links has been studied, expectations about the directionality of links could be further investigated. Relatedly, though users may expect ebooks to have Internet-style hyperlinks in them, conclusions are mixed regarding the appropriateness or value of links to external content, and it is unclear what sort of content users desire from external links. This issue, as well as expectations for navigating not just within a book but also between ebooks, are areas for future study.The Andrew W. Mellon Foundatio
A New Home for Calabash
No full textIn the summer of 2020, Digital Scholarship Services at NYU Libraries was approached by NYU professor Jacqueline Bishop about finding a new home for Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters. Multilingual and focused on centering unheard voices, Calabash was a pioneering journal showcasing poetry, literature, and visual arts from across the Caribbean. The journal, which Dr. Bishop edited from 2000-2008, had since ceased publishing, and the NYU server that had been hosting the site was due to be retired. While it is not unusual to need to migrate content when systems become obsolete, this request required us to adapt existing workflows and develop some new ones. It also highlighted some of the limitations of our systems, especially when it comes to describing multilingual material.
This poster outlines the workflows and activities undertaken to capture PDFs of each article, derive and enrich metadata using OpenRefine and Google Sheets, and upload material to NYU’s institutional repository. The migration work was multifaceted, iterative, and cross-departmental, involving colleagues from digital scholarship services, technical services, data services, and digital library departments. Along the way, we encountered some challenges, such as data that wouldn’t scrape, a need to reorder names, material in languages not represented in our system’s language code list, and decisions about which FDA import method to use. These challenges pushed us to learn more about web scraping, OpenRefine, and the DSpace import process. The scripted and semi-scripted methods we used got us part of the way there, but not quite all the way, so in 2021 and 2022 we had the help of two outstanding students from the NYU/LIU Palmer Dual Degree program, who enhanced the descriptive metadata to improve discoverability so that the journal's rich content can now reach a wider audience
Fair Use in the Visual Arts: Lesson Plans for Librarians (Occasional Paper No. 17)
No full textThe Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) announces the publication of Fair Use in the Visual Arts: Lesson Plans for Librarians as an open-access e-book. The authors guide art information professionals in crafting learning experiences that empower students to understand copyright and take advantage of fair use in their art, design, and academic practices. The College Art Association’s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, endorsed by ARLIS/NA in 2015, is a key document that has the potential to transform the use of images in the visual arts. Education will be an essential part of the integration of the Code into the visual arts, and art information professionals are well positioned to teach fair use and the Code. This book was created to further ARLIS/NA’s mission to support the evolving role of art information professionals, which increasingly includes copyright and fair use instruction. The lesson plans in this book will help those new to copyright instruction teach the Code through engaging activities and assignments. The lesson plans are also meant to inspire teachers experienced with fair use instruction through creative ideas and new ways to integrate copyright instruction into art classes, digital humanities projects, and design education. Fair Use in the Visual Arts: Lesson Plans for Librarians was edited by Alexander Watkins, Bridget Madden, Alexandra Provo, Danielle Reay, and Anna Simon. The creation of the book was proposed by the ARLIS/NA Public Policy Committee. Lesson plans were written by Amanda Avery, Leslie Worrell Christianson, Cindy Derrenbacker, Laura Dimmit, Nestor Gil, Karyn Hinkle, Jessica Hronchek, Allan Kohl, Bridget Madden, Emilee Mathews, Lindsey Reynolds, Molly Schoen, and Lijuan Xu
A new method for impregnating PEI sheets for the In-Situ foaming of sandwiches
No full textAerospace Engineerin
A New Method of Impregnating PEl Sheets for the In-Situ Foaming of Sandwiches
No full textA new method is described to make foamable films for the production of in-situ foamed sandwiches. The method consists of placing a polymer film in a bath with a swelling agent and, when equilibrium swelling has been reached, placing the film in a bath with a second liquid. If the liquids are miscible the swelling agent in the film will be replaced by the second liquid. The polymer used for the research described in this report was polyetherimide and the swelling agent was acetone. Sandwiches were produced with the fomable films made in th is manner using ethanol, 1,1,1- trichloroethane and water as blowing agents. Some mechanical properties of these sandwiches were tested.Aerospace Engineerin
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