annie.sollinger – THATCamp ARLIS/NA + VRA Seattle 2016 http://arlisnavra2016.thatcamp.org Just another THATCamp site Tue, 08 Mar 2016 19:10:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Introduction/Blank Canvas http://arlisnavra2016.thatcamp.org/2016/02/16/introductionblank-canvas/ http://arlisnavra2016.thatcamp.org/2016/02/16/introductionblank-canvas/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:30:38 +0000 http://arlisnavra2016.thatcamp.org/?p=256

I’m Annie, Digital Image Metadata Librarian at UMass Amherst, member of VRA and ARLIS. I have to admit that I’ve been a reluctant cheerleader for digital humanities as a librarian, because I’m not sure how to make it my job. I am, however, a big fan of Open Access and the public domain. READ: what do I need to learn in order to help faculty, students and researchers? It’s only when I’ve come across really cool, successful projects that seem to start with a problem (rather than those that seem to be an excuse to use a solution) that my interest is really piqued. Examples:

I am interested in learning more about working with collection data. Here is a cool Twitter account that uses the MoMA collection data dump: twitter.com/modernart_exe

I have looked longingly at descriptions of Beautiful Data and so many projects of the Berkman Center, but I am still unsure about where I/my job fit into all of this.

 

 

 

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