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These Iowan institutions are working to digitize Haitian art history How did Iowa become the home to one of the largest publicly held Haitian art collections in the world?

Jane Mertens from Grinnell College Libraries is talking about the reparative metadata project for Haitian art.
Here is an article from last year about digitizing Haitian art in Iowa. #ISUDH
www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...

University Museums, Iowa State University

Caitlin Patton from the ISU Art Museum is sharing about how they use PubPub to create and publish interpretative content like exhibition labels and scholarship, organized by artwork. Seems like part blog, part Institutional Repository w/ collaborative editing.
universitymuseums.pubpub.org
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Kevin Kane from ISU is showing how they used CollectionBuilder to make a site with early campus maps, descriptions of buildings, and photos of campus architecture through time using open source GIS tools. #ISUDH

Today I am attending the Digital Humanities Symposium at Iowa State University’s Parks Library. I am not sure if I will livetweet, but if I do it will be in a thread here. There is no hashtag so I will use #ISUDH