Talk at the NYU ITP Data Art class / Spring 2017

Covered: http://archives.nypl.org / http://pic.nypl.org
Class repository: http://github.com/blprnt/dataart2017a

1. Digital Archives @ NYPL NYU-ITP, March 20, 2017
2. hola
3. mauricio giraldo arteaga @mgiraldo
7. (not a real library scientist)
10. it’s many libraries
12. …and four research centers
17. research centers house the archives
18. what is an archive?
20. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/arts/music/lou-reed-archives-head-to-new-york-public-library.html
21. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/arts/dance/baryshnikov-packs-up-his-memories-in-boxes.html
22. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/music/arthur-russell-archives-new-york-public-library.html
23. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/arts/dance/new-york-public-library-acquires-hip-hop-archive.html
24. https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/timothy-leary-video-games-unearthed-in-archive/
25. https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/new-york-public-library-acquires-archive-of-the-new-york-review-of-books/
26. but what does it mean?
27. we receive a bunch of boxes with stuff
28. Philip Greenberg / New York Times
29. Jonathan Blanc
30. Jonathan Blanc
31. Philip Greenberg / New York Times
32. Philip Greenberg / New York Times
33. Jonathan Blanc
34. Jonathan Blanc
35. Jason Stern
36. Shana Novak / Rolling Stone
37. Shana Novak / Rolling Stone
38. Jonathan Blanc
39. Jonathan Blanc
40. Jonathan Blanc
41. it’s a bunch of random stuff
43. archival processing
57. finding aid
58. varies by archivist and institution
59. Encoded Archival Description
62. @trevorthornton + @thisismmiller
68. ©
69. but at least you can see it on site ¯\_(ϑ)_/¯
71. not archives (but related, library work)
73. 91PH021.338 1938 Gelatin silver print The American Country Woman Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) 5. Woman of the High Plains. "If you die, you're dead. That's all." Texas Panhandle, 1938 Print Size: 13 x 10 3/8 in. (33 x 26.4 cm) Mat / Mount (matted ): 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) Matted. Title from typed notes in cloth-bound binder produced by Lange, "From the files of Dorothea Lange, Final editing, June 1965". See accompanying box for binder. Quote by J.Russell Smith on page 10 [unpaginated]. Negative number: 38258 On recto (signed and dated in ink): Dorothea Lange 1938-1965. On verso (handwritten in ink): negative number 38258; (stamped in blue ink): PROPERTY OF // THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY // PICTURE COLLECTION; (handwritten in felt-tip marker): 5 // in Series
76. “trapped” in an internal system
79. it’s not linked to other resources
80. ©
83. geography as a classification system
84. can we bring it to life? (this is an experiment)
88. thank you! @mgiraldo