Art + Wayfinding

Esquire just ran a pretty neat piece on technology and the reconceptualization of digital maps. One of the coolest is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's ArtScope. Check it out at SFMOMA ArtScope.

Week 15 (?)

Last week of classes! We're in the home stretch now so Chris and I are wrapping up a number of issues (mostly to do with the Daily Iowan as we've received no new information from the Geosciences department). It's a odd how strangely things have worked out with the Brian Glenister collection. At the beginning of the term we thought we were going to devoting all of our efforts into getting the collection off the ground (which we've kind of done, but just barely). As inter-deparmental collaborations go, I wonder how common it is for communication to break down as it has. It's unfortunate that things worked out the way they did, but it wasn't for lack of effort on our part to get things moving. But at the very least, we laid the groundwork for others to continue work on the Glenister collection.

A list of things to finish this week:
1)Fix the order of images for the Daily Iowan (some of the issues uploaded without metadata so they are chronologically displaced to the front end of the collection).
2)Metadata for a remaining group of 1890 issues. As we linearly progress by year, the number of issues has risen dramatically, making metadata a slow and repititive process (as if it wasn't already).
3)Write collection introductions. A brief blurb about what the collection is about.
4)Finish uploading issues--should push well over the 600 items mark.
5)Presentation on Friday--I don't really know what I'm going to talk about for 10 minutes. The collections themselves are probably more interesting than the work put into digitizing them. We've had a number of technical issues that we've solved but they've always been fairly mundane glitches (like the line spacing problem).

I figure I'll probably continue working on the Daily Iowan over break, unless told otherwise. It'll help keep me busy when I get back to Iowa City after new year's.

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