Hello all! This is my first THATcamp and I am still figuring out how to participate. I wonder if anyone would be interested in how digital humanities can impact Visual Literacy, especially in higher education settings. ACRL’s Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education is a good starting point. How can it be incorporated into curriculum? What is a librarian’s role in this? What kind of technology can be used to enhance visual literacy on campus? My knowledge is pretty limited, so would like to learn from others about this field. Thanks!

Hi all,

Would love to brainstorm how to implement linked data on a variety of cultural heritage institutional metadata. We’ve been working on a project about artist books and enhancing with Getty LOD vocabs and would love to get a feel for how or if others are thinking about how to enhance their legacy data to be more usable for others. Some thoughts about what would be discussed:

• What to do with legacy data – what forms it takes, what is best for the objects and what is best for interoperability?
• Identifying relevant tools for cleaning and enhancing data, such as OpenRefine, Heidelberg tool?
• Relevant team members for such a project, including domain expert and metadata and systems experts – how to communicate effectively across multiple expertise backgrounds
• Balancing over- or underenhancement, particularly for works of art
• What are some ways to visualize connections and relationships between creators and artifacts?
• How can we ensure that a project is sustainable?

Maybe someone would be interested in leading a session about exploring collection data, such as Github releases (MOMA, Cooper Hewitt, NYPL), and what kinds of tools are available (Viewshare, Palladio, others.) This could be either a discussion of things people/institutions have already done or a group exploration at THATCamp.