This document discusses Project CHART, a digitization project at the Brooklyn Public Library to digitize materials from the Brooklyn Collection including the Daily Eagle newspaper from 1841-1955. It provides an overview of the digitization and metadata process. It also discusses using History Pin as a way to get community involvement in sharing information from the collections visually and developing folksonomies to increase awareness of Brooklyn's history. The future directions discussed include developing better finding aids and research tools and marketing the collections.
14. Other Players
NYPL’s Map Warper
University of North Carolina’s Historic
Map Overlays Project
Move beyond first step of Discovery
Visualizing history
Hurricane Sandy
Started w/housinglow-rent Albany Houses, Park Place and Albany Ave. Rents in the six-house, 14-story project will range from $30.50 for two rooms to $42 for five rooms."
1946 Linden Houses, the East New York veterans emergency housing project, go up on site at Linden Boulevard and Vermont St.
Crescent Athletic Club located on Shore road near 84th Street 1931
Waiting to be demolished, home of Fort Hamilton High 1938
From Google maps Ft. Hamilton High.
How to share info? Creating of http://mysite.pratt.edu/~arybakov/projects/Blog.pdf
Stress still soft launch. www.brooklynvisualheritage.comNeeds to attract broader audience, gain partnerships. Content alone is not enoughAfter CHART? What will happen?Gmaps brings awareness
http://www.historypin.com/collections/view/id/7082“This is exactly why we’ve built Historypin–so you can help capture the photos, stories, and memories of your local area, and even coordinate with your local library, archive or historical society to help share and preserve the unique history of your community!”Create tours and collections. Show bklyncolGmapscollab, Tagging, superimposing repository metadata creates relational context. Resource for discovery. Show preloaded fading of bpl
Great to showcase own collections but then what? Discovery is only first stepInteractive, useful to show areas affected by Sandy
Bringing the comm to the lib. Map literacy is up, as anyone using Apple’s maps can tell you.
