Category Archives: News

Matter matters

Posted on March 6, 2013 by jschnapp

metaLAB is happy to announce that Zeega has been selected to join the first cohort of startups in Matter, a new San Francisco-based accelerator for mission-driven companies committed to changing media and supporting media entrepreneurs building a more informed, connected, … Continue reading →

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Library Hacking with the DPLA: Megacollections, Visual Search, and the Ecology of Metadata

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Yanni Loukissas

Last week, Matthew Battles and I joined a group of literary hackers, digital humanists, media designers, and veteran librarians at the DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) appfest on the sprawling top floor of Chattanooga’s brutalist-era public library. We wrangled … Continue reading →

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Summer moves

Posted on June 21, 2012 by jschnapp

The summer is upon us and metaLAB is looking forward to a number of important initiatives that will be launched during its course. Several new collaborators will be joining the core team both for the long term and the short. … Continue reading →

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Debuting the Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Matthew Battles

The project jumbles the conventional division of scholarly labor in which something happens, and then people comment on the something that happens, and then other people collect those comments and put them in a library, and then archivists catalog them. … Continue reading →

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Truth-hacking, fact-checking, and Lies with Friends

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Matthew Battles

[F]act-checking websites have not extinguished misinformation and have become themselves political weapons. Even Kathleen Hall Jamieson, founder of FactCheck.org, has argued fact-checking may perpetuate lies by restating them…. On Tuesday morning, Jamieson helped frame the conversation: “What is truth? That … Continue reading →

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Visualizing global art

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Matthew Battles

MetaLAB cofounder Robert Gerard Pietrusko has collaborated with Stewart Smith and Bernd Lintermann in a piece called trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–2011, which explores the impact of the worldwide explosion of art biennials through immersive, panoramic visualizations of data … Continue reading →

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Cooking up some dishes in the Library Test Kitchen

Posted on February 1, 2012 by jschnapp

Bibliotheca II, alias “son of Bibliotheca” (last semester’s seminar/studio jointly run by Jeffrey Schnapp and John Palfrey), has now been launched with the help of Ann Whiteside (chief librarian at the Loeb Design Library), Jeff Goldenson (Law Library Innovation Lab), … Continue reading →

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Low-signal utopia: Wayne Marshall remixes Boston’s pirate radio

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Matthew Battles

Here’s Wayne Marshall at Cluster magazine on the veiled tapestry of pirate radio in Boston: Irish jigs and avant jazz, MOR rock fragments and bachata loops, Rick Ross grunts, reports of accidents in Ecuador and raids on Santeria barbershops, Boston-accented … Continue reading →

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extraMUROS is a finalist in DPLA beta sprint

Posted on September 30, 2011 by jschnapp

We are very pleased to announce that extraMUROS has been selected as one of the six finalists in the Digital Public Library of America beta sprint competition. metaLAB is in excellent company: our friends at ShelfLife/Library Cloud are in the … Continue reading →

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extraMUROS enters the DPLA Beta sprint

Posted on September 2, 2011 by jschnapp

metaLAB’s entry for the Digital Public Library of America Beta Sprint competition is now live. To quote from the clip itself: “extraMUROS proposes to shape the Digital Public Library of America into a multimedia-library-without-walls through an open source, HTML5 platform. … Continue reading →

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