Talk at the NYU ITP Data Art class / Spring 2017

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Digital Archives @ NYPL NYU-ITP, March 20, 2017

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hola

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mauricio giraldo arteaga @mgiraldo

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(not a real library scientist)

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it’s many libraries

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…and four research centers

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research centers house the archives

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what is an archive?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/arts/music/lou-reed-archives-head-to-new-york-public-library.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/arts/dance/baryshnikov-packs-up-his-memories-in-boxes.html

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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/music/arthur-russell-archives-new-york-public-library.html

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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/arts/dance/new-york-public-library-acquires-hip-hop-archive.html

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https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/timothy-leary-video-games-unearthed-in-archive/

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https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/new-york-public-library-acquires-archive-of-the-new-york-review-of-books/

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but what does it mean?

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we receive a bunch of boxes with stuﬀ

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Philip Greenberg / New York Times

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Jonathan Blanc

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Jonathan Blanc

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Philip Greenberg / New York Times

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Philip Greenberg / New York Times

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Jonathan Blanc

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Jonathan Blanc

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Jason Stern

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Shana Novak / Rolling Stone

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Shana Novak / Rolling Stone

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Jonathan Blanc

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Jonathan Blanc

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Jonathan Blanc

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it’s a bunch of random stuﬀ

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archival processing

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finding aid

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varies by archivist and institution

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Encoded Archival Description

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@trevorthornton + @thisismmiller

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but at least you can see it on site ¯\_(ϑ)_/¯

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not archives (but related, library work)

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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