tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36938012024-03-18T20:51:58.055-07:00...beansproutingsI am a gardener and I think of ideas in the same way. This space is for growing some of these thoughts, tending them, and showing off the harvest. It's an organic thing and there may be a few weeds, but that's really OK.Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-17197525567531200242014-09-29T11:26:00.000-07:002014-10-22T11:29:37.354-07:00Better Experience is the Payoff in EducationIn Jon Kolko’s article, “Why Investment in Design is the Only Way to ‘Win’ in Education” (UX Magazine, September 16, 2014), he discusses how the value proposition of educational technology should be better education, and that the design of that experience should not be simply a “forgivable attribute.”
“…for us to collectively realize the benefits of advanced technology in the context of Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-62189154071405157122014-09-10T11:25:00.000-07:002014-10-22T11:30:29.181-07:00Architecture_MPS Launches Pinterest CampaignArchitecture_media_politics_society is a a peer-reviewed academic journal and its website serves as a forum for the analysis of architecture, landscape and urbanism in the mediated, politicized environment of contemporary culture and society. I have been managing the social media campaign for Architecture_MPS. My goal is to drive traffic to the journal and its resource Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-70114593205690224582014-05-31T11:23:00.000-07:002014-10-22T11:31:15.377-07:00West 104th Street Block Association Talks IAThe April 15 issue of the West 104th Street Block Association Newsletter featured the efforts of my design team in an article about the Association’s pending website redesign.
As part of the project, my design team conducted interviews, surveys and user testing of current residents, neighbors and prospective residents. These were divided into four test groups including families with Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-24359878363218550352014-04-20T11:22:00.000-07:002014-10-22T11:31:37.670-07:00Site Maps and Variations: A Real World Review
A sitemap is a useful tool both for users and designers of a web interface. Designers use sitemaps to visualize website navigation, while users rely on them in combination with search and browsing to help them find what they are looking for. A third user, search engines, rely on sitemaps in part to index websites. Increasingly, designers are integrating sitemaps and subsets of sitemaps directlyNoreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-20387468791192557452014-04-06T11:21:00.000-07:002014-10-22T11:31:49.566-07:00West 104th Street Block Association Moves Ahead with Re-DesignThe West 104th Street Block Association voted to adopt the website design and strategy developed by my team at Pratt Institute. The new web design will update the association’s site from the outdated world of frames and IE4 era optimization to a sleek, modern WordPress interface. Key improvements include an organized layout, legible fonts, searchable newsletter archive, updated content, livelier Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-11189954576776735602014-02-26T14:27:00.001-08:002014-03-11T07:09:16.558-07:00Stump and Moo…and for my first piece of post-MLIS magic, I started a project cataloging cows. Literally. It's a small cattle ranch management app and won't be public. Mostly coding and connecting to no-SQL database MongoDB, which is based in JSON and has interesting linked data possibilities.
I have also started interning at Architecture_MPS, an online architecture journal. I am developing an image archive Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-76339716981841260092014-01-14T14:24:00.000-08:002014-02-26T14:31:09.047-08:00Fall Projects: User ResearchMy Information Architecture class conducted a semester-long, group project to develop a website prototype for a small business or nonprofit group. My group, including Eleanor Meyer, Jan Diolola, Storey Radziunas and me, formed a group called Community Design and selected the West 104th Street Block Association as our client. Since I have a prior relationship with the block association as the Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-80130336999607660692013-12-13T14:16:00.000-08:002014-02-26T14:22:44.389-08:00Fall Projects in Digital Archives
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. The interviews were primary sources for Ms. Newman's book Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-22227946032492020172013-11-01T10:27:00.002-07:002013-11-01T10:34:44.846-07:00E-Portfolio CompletedAn e-Portfolio is one of the degree requirements for the Pratt MSLIS program. I just sent mine in and a few minutes later, I got a note that I passed. Now I can focus on my class projects.
My e-PortfolioNoreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-8043686481584308012013-09-16T20:32:00.003-07:002013-09-16T20:34:44.320-07:00Folksonomies in Museums at Pratt Alumni DayHonored once again to be nominated by the SILSSA officers to present our poster, Folksonomies in Museums at Alumni Day Academic Fair on Saturday, September 28th from 1-3pm in the Student Union on the Brooklyn Campus. Thanks and hugs to co-authors Dana Hart and Kathleen Dowling.Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-50565194252973949122013-08-28T07:53:00.001-07:002013-11-01T10:33:42.511-07:00Summer SchoolMy 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. Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-15707525626208917992013-07-25T08:48:00.000-07:002013-08-28T08:49:29.175-07:00Map Literature ReviewFor this literature review I selected two sources, one practical and one fanciful. The practical source is “Digital Map Librarianship: A Working Syllabus” from the IFLA Section of Geography and Map Libraries. The fanciful one is You Are Here: Personal Geographies and other Maps of the Imagination by Katherine Harmon. I actually own a copy of Harmon's book and browse through it frequently.
“Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-67123496594087969882013-07-18T08:53:00.000-07:002013-08-28T09:19:31.798-07:00 Findings Report: Web Map ResourcesThe following is a Findings Report on web map resources that I completed as part of a study of NYC Community Gardens for Pratt's Map Institute at the New York Public Library Map Division taught by Matt Knutzen. I reviewed the Library of Congress Geography and Map Reading Room website, GeoCommons and OASISNYC as potential resources for completing this project.
Library of Congress Geography and Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-53261177390796213912013-07-12T08:13:00.000-07:002013-08-28T09:04:47.250-07:00Exhibit Review - “The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter” at the NYPL“The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter” at the New York Public Library covers the history of children’s literature from three centuries of items in the Library’s collection, and explores how children’s literature exposes society’s understanding of how a child learns and the social and moral priorities of children’s education at a given period of time.
The question asked in the first hall isNoreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-4275007796028498422013-05-10T07:53:00.000-07:002013-08-28T08:02:23.667-07:00SILS Student ShowcaseI was nominated to present three projects at the Pratt SILS Student Showcase on May 10, 2013, including a review of technology platforms for a digital humanities skillshare application; a group project on linked open data at cultural heritage institutions in which I studied the Australian War Memorial, EU Screen and the Deutsche National Bibliotek; and a group project on folksonomies and social Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-34658851604892364392013-04-08T08:03:00.000-07:002013-08-28T09:05:27.219-07:00IA Summit Poster SessionMy 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 Museums and other recent Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-44647777243151855392013-02-13T05:54:00.002-08:002013-02-13T06:31:48.288-08:00World IA Day: City DataI had the chance to fill in for Andrew Nicklin, NYC Director of Research and Development at DoITT, at World IA Day on February 11, 2013. The event was held after Winter Storm Nemo hit the region. We had anticipated up to 330 attendees, but the storm knocked out commuter trains, and road conditions in New Jersey and upstate New York kept many home. Still, an unexpectedly large crowd of 130 came Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-81366993054461049782013-01-29T17:47:00.000-08:002013-02-13T06:25:53.894-08:00Digital Humanities and ArchaeologyPresentation to Digital Humanities class at Pratt Institute, covering the history of computing in the field of archaeology and current digital humanities projects.
Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-29586815181244845992012-12-13T06:14:00.000-08:002013-02-13T06:26:46.629-08:00Folksonomies in MuseumsKathleen 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
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Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-42583699338172392922012-11-30T09:00:00.000-08:002013-02-13T06:28:13.643-08:00Archiving Digital MapsAn excerpt and presentation from an academic paper on archiving digital maps:
Archiving digital maps from Noreen Whysel
I have been a member of the Geographic Information System (“GIS”) community in New York City, since the
early 1990s when I was a real estate researcher at Price Waterhouse. In those days,
except for certain Federal departments, like the US Census, geographic dataNoreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-12576394679167408642012-09-10T06:19:00.000-07:002013-02-13T06:28:39.045-08:00Presidential LibrariesMy presentation on Presidential Libraries, featuring the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.
Presidential Libraries from Noreen Whysel Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-1519982223160457072012-07-23T11:50:00.000-07:002013-02-13T06:29:11.510-08:00GeoSprocket Live Survey on GIS Tools
The first round of results of a recent GIS user poll from GeoSprocket, asking about GIS tool used and frequency of use, are available:
Bill Morris surveyed GIS users via several feeds including a Vermont GIS listserv, ESRI and O'Reilly conference hashtags and the author's social media accounts. An interesting survey, but difficult to get a good read on who the sample represents. Not Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-76870197604237013432012-07-13T11:57:00.000-07:002012-07-23T12:00:54.058-07:00Information Architecture of Emergency Response (for Designers)My IxDA July 12 presentation on Information Architecture of Emergency Response (for Designers) is now available at: http://www.slideshare.net/nwhysel/information-architecture-of-emergency-response-for-designers. Thanks to IxDA and Pivotal Labs for hosting, Peter March for MCing and Jennifer Kilian at Hot Studio for bringing the pizza.
Information Architecture of Emergency Response (for Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-87180540323568216312012-05-29T12:36:00.000-07:002012-05-30T05:24:21.822-07:00The Information Architecture of Emergency ResponseNow that I have been accepted into the Pratt Institute Masters of Library and Information Science program, I have started a journey to document the convergence between two of my favorite disciplines, Geographic Information Systems and Information Architecture. In the past few months, I've noticed an explosion of conferences and meetups addressing the geolocational aspects of digital applications Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-80283759981501966672012-01-24T20:19:00.000-08:002012-01-24T20:28:52.980-08:00Towards a 9/11 GeoArchiveImagine if the most graphic and expressive artifacts from one of the most historic events in New York City lay rolled in tubes in a dusty corner. What if millions of bytes of geographic data, produced through an unprecedented, community collaboration, were dispersed, disconnected and hidden from public view? If you had the opportunity to preserve them, how would you do it?
During the September Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.com0