VRA Conference Minneapolis 2024

WORKSHOP FULL!

LIMITED TO 15 PARTICIPANTS
PRIOR REGISTRATION REQUIRED

The cost of this workshop is included in your conference registration, but participants must register for the workshop when they register for the conference. 

This workshop will introduce participants to the basic workflow for creating a digital map and integrating it into programming and exhibitions. The workshop’s goal is for participants to leave with 1) an idea of whether a digital map might be useful for their institution, 2) practical information about what is entailed in creating a map, and 3) resources for more information on this subject.

Digital cartography presents an opportunity for visual resources professionals from universities, libraries, and museums to collaborate across disciplines, engage students and the general public, and introduce collections to a broad range of audiences. This workshop will present digital mapping as an opportunity for visual resources professionals to visualize image collections, deepen user engagement and discovery, and serve as a research tool.

In the first part of this 1.5 hour session, workshop participants will discuss the possibilities and challenges inherent to each through a series of case studies of image-forward digital maps created for use in museum and classroom settings. We will touch on metadata acquisition and cleaning, image repositories, design, and integration into GLAM exhibitions and websites. The instructor with then present both open-source and subscription platforms for digital mapping including ArcGIS Online and Mapbox.

The second half of the workshop will consist of a hands-on guided tutorial that uses pre-formatted data to gives participants the experience of navigating the platforms and curating the data to suit their particular needs. Digital cartography has the potential to foreground image collections in new and exciting ways and to allow users to explore holdings from a distance.