Month: August 2013

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Registration for the 2013 NYGeoCON is Now Open!

Registration is now open for the 2013 NYGeoCON being held on November 12th-13th in beautiful Saratoga Springs, NY!


The early registration rate is $185 for the entire event and $120 for one day. You can register by going to: http://www.nysgis.net/nygeocon2013/register/. Also, we have reserved a block of rooms at the Saratoga Hilton at the government rate of $104/night. To reserve a room, simply go to:http://www.nysgis.net/nygeocon2013/lodging/ and click on “Reserve now.”

NYGeoCON begins on the evening of November 11th with a networking reception at 7 pm. The first full day of the conference features a keynote presentation by Jack Levis of UPS. Jack appeared in the Penn State

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Summer School

My summer involved a full set of research courses, including Museums & Library Research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Researching Local Histories and the Summer Map Institute at NYPL. The workload was a bit heavy due to the fact that the MetMuseum course was not actually a two week course, as noted in the bulletin, but two weeks of seminar followed by a month of intensive research. Ultimately it was a great experience, working in three very different kinds of research: museum artifacts, local landmarks and maps.

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NYC Garden Maps, a WordPress site on community gardening in New York City

My map project on NYC Garden Maps is done. I am editing the final deliverables for presentation here, including a walking tour of the Bloomingdale neighborhood on the Upper West Side and a MetMuseum exhibition guide. Look for these shortly.

Also, I spent the summer with my linked data team refining our paper on “Linked Data for Cultural Institutions,” which has been accepted to ACM’s 2013 SIGDOC conference. This has been a challenging and extremely rewarding experience and I thank my teammates and co-authors, Julia Marden, Carolyn Li-Madeo and Jeff Edelstein of Pratt Institute. I celebrated the end of an intense summer with two weeks in the Massachusetts Berkshires.