The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum holds over 400 archival collections of JFK, his administration, his family – and Ernest Hemingway! Around 2006, they began a tremendous initiative called “Access to a Legacy,” to digitize, catalogue, and preserve many of their collections. Since then, they have received a lot of notoriety for this massive project – covering textual, photograph, and audiovisual assets - that is still ongoing. On the tour, we will see their facilities - with focus on the digital collections areas - and have the opportunity to speak with some of their...
Jeff Steward, Director of Digital Infrastructure and Emerging Technology at the Harvard Art Museum, has generously offered to customize a visit for us which will focus on the changing nature of their acquisitions process in order to include digital works (seeing some examples of such works on view). We will also see some examples of how the museum collects and creates data visualizations, some of which are generated to help understand how visitors engage with digital objects and the online collections database. In addition to this tour we will be free to explore the museum on our own (...
Cal Lee - Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Join us for an introduction to digital forensics in libraries and archives to learn about the important issues involved in the recovery of information from digital media. When acquiring born-digital materials, librarians and archivists must extract information in ways that ensure the integrity of materials, allow users to make sense of materials and understand their context and prevent inadvertent disclosure of sensitive data. There are a variety of methods and...
Andala Coffee Shop, 286 Franklin Street, Cambridge
Join members of the NEASIST Program Committee as we discuss bestselling author James Gleick's book, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. In the first of this two-part meetup, we'll discuss chapters 1-7. In the second, we'll discuss the remainder of the book. You're welcome to join even if you haven't finished the reading!
This event is open to all--you don't need to be a member of ASIS&T to join us. The only requirement is that you be excited about connecting with others in the local information science community!
