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Course Description:
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The Library of Congress holds more than 160 physical items, alongside countless more digital resources. The collection spans vast swaths of subject areas, geographical places, historical periods, and political eras. In this course we’ll learn about the unique properties of these holdings, about the ways that these objects are encoded in data, and how we can access the archive both remotely and in person. Most importantly, we’ll dream up ways that artists might interact with and interrogate the collections, to produce work in a variety of media from software to sculpture to performance.
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The Library of Congress holds more than 160 million physical items, alongside countless more digital resources. The collection spans vast swaths of subject areas, geographical places, historical periods, and political eras. In this course we’ll learn about the unique properties of these holdings, about the ways that these objects are encoded in data, and how we can access the archive both remotely and in person. Most importantly, we’ll dream up ways that artists might interact with and interrogate the collections, to produce work in a variety of media from software to sculpture to performance.
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Class 1 - 1/30/19
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- Library Section overviews:
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1. General Collections
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2. Prints & Photographs
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3. Maps
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3. TBA
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Readings, etc:
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The Art World's Love Affair With Archives - ArtSpace: https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/art_market/the_art_worlds_love_affair_with_archives-51976
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1. The Art World's Love Affair With Archives - ArtSpace: https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/art_market/the_art_worlds_love_affair_with_archives-51976
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A Sort of Joy - Jer Thorp: https://medium.com/memo-random/a-sort-of-joy-1d9d5ff02ac9
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2. A Sort of Joy - Jer Thorp: https://medium.com/memo-random/a-sort-of-joy-1d9d5ff02ac9
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Assignment:
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TBA
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Class 3 - 2/13/19
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For the first 175 years of its existence, the Library's data was written down on hundreds of thousands of paper cards. Then, in an effort to embrace new computing technologies, a team led by Henrietta Avram developed MARC, and changed the way libraries all around the world recorded and shared collections information. In this class we'll look at what makes a MARC record a MARC record, and we'll look at some computational ways to explore the Library's public MARC records - more than 25 million items. We'll investigate some of the shortcomings of the MARC format (and really any data schema), and we'll continue our conversations with Library staff about the various collections.
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- Library Section overviews:
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1. Rare Books
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2. AFC
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3. Manuscripts
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1. TBA
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2. TBA
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3. TBA
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Readings, etc:
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Card Catalogues and the Secret History of Modernity - Tim Carmody: https://kottke.org/17/10/card-catalogs-and-the-secret-history-of-modernity
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1. Card Catalogues and the Secret History of Modernity - Tim Carmody: https://kottke.org/17/10/card-catalogs-and-the-secret-history-of-modernity
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What's Gender Got To Do With It? Amber Billey, Emily Drabinski, K.R. Roberto - : https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=libfacpub
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2. What's Gender Got To Do With It? Amber Billey, Emily Drabinski, K.R. Roberto - : https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=libfacpub
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Assignment:
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- Library Section overviews:
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1. Hispanic
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2. LGBTQ+
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3. Veterans' History
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1. TBA
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2. TBA
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3. TBA
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Readings, etc:
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From Code to Colors: Working with the Library of Congress JSON API - Laura Wrubel: https://www.google.com/search?q=laura+wrubel+library+of+congress+API&oq=laura+wrubel+library+of+congress+API&aqs=chrome..69i57.6183j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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1. From Code to Colors: Working with the Library of Congress JSON API - Laura Wrubel: https://www.google.com/search?q=laura+wrubel+library+of+congress+API&oq=laura+wrubel+library+of+congress+API&aqs=chrome..69i57.6183j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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LOC API GitHub Tutorial - John Scanella: https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/data-exploration/blob/master/LOC.gov%20JSON%20API.ipynb
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2. LOC API GitHub Tutorial - John Scanella: https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/data-exploration/blob/master/LOC.gov%20JSON%20API.ipynb
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Sampling DNA From a 1,000-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript - Sarah Zhang: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/the-secret-life-of-illuminated-manuscripts-as-told-in-dna/536172/
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3. Sampling DNA From a 1,000-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript - Sarah Zhang: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/the-secret-life-of-illuminated-manuscripts-as-told-in-dna/536172/
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The Library of Congress has never been a public library. Despite this, efforts in the last few years have been launched to engage the public with data creation for some of its most interesting collections. In this class we'll learn about crowd.loc.gov, a platform built to transcribe, review, and tag digitized images of manuscripts and typed materials from the Library’s collections. We'll hear from Library staff, and learn how the project came to be, how it works, and what the future might hold for public involvement with the LOC collections.
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- Guest speaker: LOC Labs
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**Guest speaker**: LOC Labs
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Readings, etc:
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TBA
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Assignment:
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Artist in the Archive, Episode 7: https://artistinthearchive.podbean.com/e/episode-7-the-serendipity-episode/
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1. Artist in the Archive, Episode 7: https://artistinthearchive.podbean.com/e/episode-7-the-serendipity-episode/
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Consider the Boolean - Jacob Harris: https://source.opennews.org/articles/consider-boolean/
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2. Consider the Boolean - Jacob Harris: https://source.opennews.org/articles/consider-boolean/
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Assignment:
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Class 7 - 3/13/19
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In this class, we'll take a deep dive into one of the Library's most facscinating holdings: the Sanborne Fire Insurance Maps. First published in 1867, these detailed maps of cities were made to allow fire insurance companies to assess liability in urban areas. For almost 70 years, these maps were made in more than 12,000 US cities and town, and as a whole they represent a remarkable record of the country's history. We'll look at how the maps were made, and how we can examine and use them. We'll hear about a new initiative at the LOC to use machine learning to extract information from these maps, greatly increasing their utility to historians, city planners - and artists!
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Guest Speaker: TBA
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Readings, etc:
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A Place for Big Data - Yanni Loukissas: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053951716661365
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Sanborn Samplers - Gary Fitzpatrick: https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/articles-and-essays/sanborn-samplers
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Assignment:
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TBA
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Class 8 - 3/27/19
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The Library of Congress is a definitively colonial institution. Throughout its history, voices of indigenous people have been in turn ignored, erased, and neglected. In this class we'll examine this problematic history and look at some ways that indigeneity is being re-addressed. In particular, we'll investigate the story of how 31 cylinders containing Passamaquoddy songs have revently been restored and re-born.
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Guest Speaker: Jane Anderson
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Readings, etc:
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Anxieties of Authorship in Colonial Archives - Jane Anderson et al : https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55cfbe2de4b02774e51fac68/t/55d0ed0fe4b02b29043a1cec/1439755535710/Anxieties+of+Authorship.pdf
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Understanding Indigenous Data Sovereignty - Tahu Kakatai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWX8qS0mTAg
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Ancestral Voices Roundtable - http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8530&loclr=eanw
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TBA
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Assignment:
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Class 9 - 4/3/19
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Since 2000, the Library's web archive program has worked to collect culturally important things from the internet. This collection has grown to include web comics, social media posts and animated GIFs. In this class, we'll look at some of the web archive's recent data releases, and examine ways to computationally explore these large sets of 'born-digital' objects. We'll also look at the ethical issues that are at the center of web archiving, particularly in respect to marginilized people.
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- The Web Archive
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- Guest Speaker: TBA
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**Guest Speaker**: TBA
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Not All Information Wants to Be Free - Tara Robertson: http://eprints.rclis.org/32463/1/Applying%20Library%20Values%20to%20Emerging%20Technology_Chapter%2015.pdf
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Assignment:
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TBA
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Class 8 - 3/27/19
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The Library of Congress is a definitively colonial institution. Throughout its history, voices of indigenous people have been in turn ignored, erased, and neglected. In this class we'll examine this problematic history and look at some ways that indigeneity is being re-addressed. In particular, we'll investigate the story of how 31 cylinders containing Passamaquoddy songs have revently been restored and re-born.
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**Guest Speaker**: Jane Anderson
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1. Anxieties of Authorship in Colonial Archives - Jane Anderson et al : https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55cfbe2de4b02774e51fac68/t/55d0ed0fe4b02b29043a1cec/1439755535710/Anxieties+of+Authorship.pdf
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2. Understanding Indigenous Data Sovereignty - Tahu Kakatai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWX8qS0mTAg
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3. Ancestral Voices Roundtable - http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8530&loclr=eanw
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Assignment:
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TBA
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Class 10 - 4/10/19
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Class 9 - 4/3/19
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It's easy to get caught up with looking at the Library through a data lens, whereas in reality it is a very physical thing. In this class we'll look at the day-to-day workings of the library. We'll look at projects which have engaged with institutional infrastructure, and we'll collectively imagine ways to creatively explore the LOC's labryntine workings.
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**Guest Speaker**: Shannon Mattern
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Readings, etc:
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Dust Gathering - Nina Katchadourian: https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/31
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Artist in the Archive Episode Episode 3: https://artistinthearchive.podbean.com/e/episode-3-the-bureaucracy-episode/
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Assignment:
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TBA
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Class 10 - 4/10/19
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n this class, we'll take a deep dive into one of the Library's most facscinating holdings: the Sanborne Fire Insurance Maps. First published in 1867, these detailed maps of cities were made to allow fire insurance companies to assess liability in urban areas. For almost 70 years, these maps were made in more than 12,000 US cities and town, and as a whole they represent a remarkable record of the country's history. We'll look at how the maps were made, and how we can examine and use them. We'll hear about a new initiative at the LOC to use machine learning to extract information from these maps, greatly increasing their utility to historians, city planners - and artists!
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**Guest Speaker**: TBA
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Readings, etc:
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1. A Place for Big Data - Yanni Loukissas: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053951716661365
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2. Sanborn Samplers - Gary Fitzpatrick: https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/articles-and-essays/sanborn-samplers
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Assignment:
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TBA
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Class 11 - 4/17/19
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