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Arbonauts: of trees, data, and teens
For over a year, metaLAB has been working with the scientific and curatorial staff of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum to explore new digital lives for the institution—not only a much loved public park, but a collection of rare plants, a research … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Arboretum, botany, climate, design, environment, media, pedagogy, studio, visualization, youth
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Data Artifacts Rising: Cultures of Collecting from Preservation to Participation
The Internet inspires libraries, archives, museums, and arboreta to make their collections “open,” “participatory,” and “democratic.” This cluster of intellectual values, emergent in networked cultures, is taking hold at institutions that carry long legacies of prior norms: preservation, expertise, comprehensiveness, … Continue reading
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Library Hacking with the DPLA: Megacollections, Visual Search, and the Ecology of Metadata
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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Library Observatory: an open, community facility for exploring library collections and services
In connection with our emerging Data Artifacts initiative to understand the impacts of data in networked experience, we’re eager to explore some of the most culturally-determined troves of information our society produces: the bibliographic datasets that comprise library online public … Continue reading
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Tagged data, data visualization, dataviz, DPLA, Harvard, library, Processing
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openLAB_Summer
openLAB_Summer August 9, 2012, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Join us for a night showcasing metaLAB’s summer projects and propositions, experiments and explorations. Featuring: + Digital Ecologies + Feral Copyright + Library Observatory + Paper Machines openLAB is a platform for experimentation and … Continue reading
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Paper Machines
I have had the good fortune to work at metaLAB this summer on an open-source tool for text analysis and visualization in the digital humanities. This effort, funded through the Google Summer of Code, is taking place under the tutelage … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, data visualization, digital humanities, history, Jo Guldi, land reform, topic modeling
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Point Cloud: networked weather, rematerialized
Have a look at the enigmatic Point Cloud, described by its creator James Leng as “an attempt to reimagine our daily interaction with weather data.” Leng, who was a student in the metaLAB-affiliated GSD course Mixed-Reality City this past Spring, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arduino, landscape, mixed-reality city, networked materiality, sublime, urbanism, visualization, weather
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openLAB_04
openLAB_04 May 3, 2012, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Featuring a year’s worth of student projects from the Digital Humanities / xpCriticism workshop, the Curatorial Innovation Program, and the Library Test Kitchen. openLAB is a platform for experimentation and innovation. Migrating from site … Continue reading
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Biblio: your friend in the library of the (near) future
Meet Biblio, your library friend. The design-fiction clip above was made by Ben Brady, student (and teaching assistant) the Library Test Kitchen, a course about building the library of the near future taught by metaLAB’s Jeffrey Schnapp and Jeff Goldenson … Continue reading
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Tagged biblio, futurism, gsd, harvard graduate school of design, library, research, tamagotchi
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Artfully Suspended Judgment and the Electric Information Age Book
“The technique of the suspended judgment is the discovery of the twentieth century,” wrote Marshall McLuhan, “as the technique of invention is the discovery of the nineteenth.” Few books have asked their audiences to suspend judgment to the extent required … Continue reading
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