Amy Jeu and I curated a weekend exhibit, Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World, on October 29-30, 2016 at the Queens Museum celebrating the map-making community. The event featured talks and demonstrations as well as a hall dedicated to paper and digital maps submitted from the private collections of members of the GISMO community. … Read more
For eight weeks every Wednesday, Brett and I snuck away under darkness and rain to the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium to learn how to make a star show. We learned the ins and outs of the planetarium’s computer controls and presented shows for our family and friends on March 30th in the dome. … Read more
This Fall I participated in two digital archives projects, where I served on the metadata team. The first was an oral history archive for dance journalist, Barbara Newman, who had a collection of interviews from the 1970s to this past year, in which she spoke with dancers, choreographers and others affiliated in the dance community. … Read more
Honored once again to be nominated by the SILSSA officers to present our poster, Folksonomies in Museums at
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 … Read more
My poster: Folksonomies and Social Tagging in Museums, created with Kathleen Dowling and Dana Hart was presented at the 2013 Information Architecture Summit in Baltimore on April 5. This poster was also nominated for the Pratt SILS Student Showcase on May 10: Folksonomies in Museums Poster Handout from Noreen Whysel The companion presentation, Folksonomies in … Read more
Kathleen Dowling, Dana Hart and I presented on Folksonomies in Museums, our final project for our Knowledge Organization class. Below are the presentation slides and poster. Folksonomies in Museums from Noreen Whysel Folksonomies in Museums Poster Handout from Noreen Whysel Download poster (.PPTX 699kb)
