Kristen Mapes

Exploring Comics as Data

MSU Comics Forum February 21, 2020 I have been working with a fantastic team of colleagues – Kate Topham, Julian Chambliss, Devin Higgins, Ranti Junus, Scout Calvert – over the past year and a half working to create a collections …

Storytelling with a Boop: Experiences Developing Collections and Connecting Communities with Museum in a Box

Digitally Engaged LearningSan Marcos, TX September 12-13, 2019 Proposal Digital has been called the future for decades, and yet the digital more often than not refers to a screen based activity. We are exploring how a new technology, Museum in …

Computational Analysis of Digitized Images from the Roman de la Rose Digital Library

Association for Computers and the HumanitiesPittsburgh, PAJuly 23-26, 2019 Proposal The Roman de la Rose Digital Library (RDL) (https://dlmm.library.jhu.edu/en/romandelarose/) serves as a resource for the study of the most popular secular work of the European Middle Ages by providing access …

Collections as Data Jam

Experiments with World Digital Library in ACH Collections as Data Jam 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA At the ACH Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, July 23, 2019, at the Collections as Data Jam workshop. The team included: Kristen Mapes, Mickey Casad, David …

Understanding the value of the librarian in digital scholarship: beyond tools and tutorials

Michigan Academic Library Association (MiALA)May 13-14, 2019Saginaw, MI Abstract: Digital scholarship projects often include components that aren’t mentioned in tool overviews and introductory workshops, including project management, digital preservation, and web development. Often overlooked as invisible labor, these skills and …