Katie Rawson andTrevor Muñoz are scholars researching questions about food and culture using the historical menu collections from the New York Public Library. In this interview, learn more about their project, Curating Menus, and what they've learned from working with the library's data. Katie Rawson is the CLIR Bollinger Fellow in Library Innovation at the [...]
Since its debut in 2001, the free-access and free-content online encyclopedia Wikipedia has become a huge cultural force, filled with millions of articles in 250 different languages. Accessed some 500 million times per moth, and boasting over 26 million registered "citizen editor," Wikipedia would seem to be the ultimate in democratic knowledge-sharing. That is, until [...]
[http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com] [http://beta.fromthepage.com] Ben Brumfield, Collaborative Manuscript Transcription I’d like to draw in pretty deeply on one best practice. The best practice I would like to talk about today is turning the product of the crowdsourcing effort back to the volunteer. Now what do I mean by “product”? I’m not talking about the final product, the item-level finding aids, the published research papers, and [...]
[http://www.hathitrust.org] Jeremy York, HathiTrust I have just prepared to talk about some of the challenges that we have faced in HathiTrust, and I will just go ahead and do that. I am really glad to be a part of this discussion. To me it is one that is very deep and multifaceted and very exciting and challenging. Some of the challenges [...]
[http://dp.la] Rachel Frick, Digital Public Library of America There were some really great conversations this morning and I’m taking a pause to just acknowledge the great ideas that were put up there. There is a question someone brought up, and it is something I was thinking about before coming here: Who owns what? Who owns what part of the process? Who [...]
[https://transcription.si.edu] Meghan Ferriter, Smithsonian Transcription Center I continue to hear issues related to sharing information and that is the one that stands out the most to me, whether that is sharing information on how to do what we are doing already really well, or how to improve, how to accept and receive feedback from our peer community here and elsewhere: “You’re doing that [...]
[http://openglam.org] Lieke Ploeger, OpenGLAM I am with the Open Knowledge Foundation, which is an organization working on promoting open data in a variety of fields. I work for one of the working groups for Open Knowledge which is called OpenGLAM, which is what I will be talking about mainly for best practices. Open Knowledge set up these working groups as a way [...]
[http://www.nypl.org/collections/labs] Ben Vershbow, New York Public Library I had trouble distilling this. My challenges have kind of churned and mixed into the conversations we had earlier. I have tried to group them into a few categories and the challenges are around the why. Why are we doing this? There are many answers to that question depending on the project, on the [...]
[http://shelleygodwinarchive.org] Neil Fraistat, MITH, University of Maryland I’m here because of a project I direct called the Shelley-Godwin Archive, which consists of the digitized manuscripts of Percy and Mary Shelley, and Mary Shelley’s parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. We received a grant from the NEH to start the project up and the project partners are the New York Public Library, the [...]
