This document discusses Project CHART, a digitization project at the Brooklyn Public Library to digitize materials from the Brooklyn Collection including the Daily Eagle newspaper from 1841-1955. It provides an overview of the digitization and metadata process. It also discusses using History Pin as a way to get community involvement in sharing information from the collections visually and developing folksonomies to increase awareness of Brooklyn's history. The future directions discussed include developing better finding aids and research tools and marketing the collections.

1. Linking our Past to our Future:
Visualization and Libraries
BRANDI COPHER
PROJECT CHART
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
– BROOKLYN COLLECTION
LIS 698 Practicum
December 11, 2012

2. Introduction
•PROJECT CHART
•INSPIRATION
•CONNECTION TO
LIBRARIES
•FUTURE

3. Project CHART
• Brooklyn Collection
• IMLS Grant funded collaborative
digitization project
• Educational Fellowship for archivists
• Partners with Brooklyn Historical
Society, Brooklyn Museum and Pratt
SILS

4. Brooklyn Collection
 Scanning Daily
Eagle 1841-1955
 Master TIFFS and
Derivative JPEGS
 Embedding
Metadata
 Uploading via
Millenium

5. The Morgue
Work Area Storage

6. Inspiration

7. Inspiration

8. Inspiration

9. Inspiration

10. Present Day

11. Community
•RELEVANCE
•HOW TO SHARE
INFORMATION

12. Brooklyn Visual Heritage
Web showcase for Project
CHART
Resources for Brooklyn
Collections
Awareness

13. History Pin
Solution?
Community Involvement
Development
Folksonomies
Awareness

14. Other Players
 NYPL’s Map Warper
 University of North Carolina’s Historic
Map Overlays Project
 Move beyond first step of Discovery
 Visualizing history
 Hurricane Sandy

15. Future
Research Questions
Create and access finding aids
Marketing

16. Contact
 www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org
 www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/brooklyncoll
ection
 www.brooklynvisualheritage.org
 www.historypin.org