Place-Based Education

Engaging students in their own communities through local history, local culture and the local environment. An initiative of the Massachusetts Studies Project at UMass Boston.

Brooklyn Visual Heritage Project

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Brooklyn Visual Heritage.

The “Tech Info” section of this well-executed project provides helpful details of the platforms, formats and specs used by the three partnering institutions: the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library. The details are included in the Architecture Document which starts with this common puzzler for collaborating institutions:

One of the unique aspects of Brooklyn Visual Heritage is that it brings non-uniform data into a unified format. All three partner institutions have been working with digital collections for a long time, and already have well-established metadata schemes and digital asset management systems. It would not have been practical or cost effective to change the practices or procedures at each institution. Instead the goal was to display the data on the site in a uniform way.

Great goal – helpful rundown of one way to get there.

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