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Overview of digital initiatives at Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College, including a closer look at two projects: The Spiders of Lewis & Clark, and the New York City Graffiti & Street Art Project
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Digital Initiatives at Lewis & Clark: cool projects in the liberal arts
Mark DahlInterim Director
Jeremy McWilliamsDigital Services Coordinator
Watzek LibraryLewis & Clark College
Portland, OR
outline
Mark's stuff• what we're doing• philosophy behind it
Jeremy's stuff• graffiti project
o backgroundo how it works
• spider projecto backgroundo how it works
Links to projects on Twitter (#code4libnw)
• Future directions (Mark)
What are digital initiatives?
support for digital collections and digital scholarship
distinction:
• transactional approach• project approach
Thematic projects
• "live" scholarly project• teaching, research or both• students, faculty, staff• external funding, internal recognition• passion
digital shift
Digital Scholarship/Digital Humanities
• hot area (THATCamps, NYT piece etc.)• different culture than library digitization
Bringing faculty into the fold• digital orientation?• spectrum of interest
levels1.defined• abstract• observer
• grants• interdisciplinary
incentives
Supporting projects
Activities:• project management• grant writing• web development• metadata management• data gathering• teaching
Sourcing external vs. internal• external: elastic, flexible• internal: stable, institutional context, personal networks,
existing infrastructure
Great for lots of people contributing
API
Machine Tags
namespace:field=value
Spiders of Lewis & Clark
image by Thomas Shahan
Greta Binford
Project Goals:
Showcase images by spider body part
Add map component (where were spiders collected?)
Browse by phylogenetic tree**
** WTF??
eol.org
166
Flickr API query: give me all images with the machine tag: lcbio100:id=166
Flickr API query: give me geotagged images w/machine tag lcbio100:id=166...plot 'em on a Google Map
Flickr API query: give me images w/machine tags lcbio100:id=166 AND lcbio100:format=sequence
EOL API query:Give me up to 5 images and up to 5 external links for the ID 166
NYC Graffiti & Street ArtProject
image by Hannah Berry
image by Hannah Berry
Give me a list of [children] in [parent] that has images meeting my criteria.
Give me a list of neighborhoods in Portland that have images tagged with 'beer'.
Jefferson Street | Downtown | Inner Southeast | Pearl | East Portland | Eliot | The Bucket | NW Portland | NE Portland | Albina | Bridlemile | Chinatown | Reed | Hawthorne | Buckman | Hollywood | Nob Hill | Alberta Arts District | Central Eastside | Mississippi | Sunnyside | SW Portland | Old Town | Beaumont | Chutes | Goose Hollow | St. Johns Junction | Alameda | Southwest Hills | Kerns | Sullivan's Gulch | Multnomah | Belmont | Richmond | Northwest District | Haig | Mount Tabor | Lower Burnside | Ladds Circle | Center | King | Northeast | Hayhurst | Concordia | Peninsula Slough | SE Portland | St. Johns | Willamette Heights | Piedmont | Laurelhurst | Humboldt | Boise | Sellwood | Southeast Portland | Hosford-Abernathy | Southwest | Golf Junction | Westmoreland | Sellwood-Moreland | Woodlawn | Broadway District | Grant Park-Hollywood | Foster-Powell | Champ | Kenton | Lents | Maplewood | Eastmoreland | Carson Heights | Bellrose | Bridgeton | Montavilla | Portland Heights | Darlington | Ashcreek | Lloyd District | Rose City | Sylvan | Russellville | Springville | South Burlingame
Give me all the images tagged with 'beer' in the Jefferson Street neighborhood.
Evolution of Design
Evolution of Design
Future Directions
• student-centered projects• partnerships• platforms• external sourcing