Digital Library Seminar Series: 2013-11-22
This event is sponsored by the Digital Humanities Center and the Libraries Digital Program Division.
It is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
Topic
Viewshare: Interfacing with Collection Data
Speaker
Jefferson Bailey
Affiliation
Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council
Description
Viewshare (viewshare.org) is a free, open-source platform for creating, visualizing, and sharing cultural heritage collections and other datasets. It offers librarians, archivists, collections managers, and others an easy-to-use way to enhance and explore their collections as well as create interactive, dynamic displays. With a variety of ingest methods and data augmentation tools, Viewshare enables users to prototype and customize visualizations in order to better understand and exhibit collection data. This talk will describe the purpose and potential of Viewshare, demonstrate different use cases, offer a quick walkthrough of creating views, and discuss its broader role in collection management, research, pedagogy, and open data.
Date
November 22, 2013
Day
Friday
Time
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Location
203 Butler Library, Morningside Heights Campus, Columbia University
More Information
Viewshare Cheat Sheet
Viewshare Page (curated links for CUL)