Emma Metcalfe Hurst

ARLIS/NA Technology Review: LUX: Yale Collections Discovery

Posted by in Archives, Libraries, Uncategorized, Writing

LUX: Yale Collections Discovery is an ambitious digital discovery platform that aggregates Yale University’s cultural heritage and natural history collections. Using a Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) Linked Art model and a backend knowledge graph structure, LUX centralizes the collection catalogs of Yale University Library, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Peabody Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery. Launched publicly in late May 2023, the platform supports research, learning, and teaching by providing access to over 50 million records for objects, concepts, people and groups, events, places, and works; unveiling…read more

Apr.15
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Collecting the Collector & Processing the Process: A Two-Part Exhibition of the bpNichol Fonds

Posted by in Archives, Books, Collection, Curatorial, School, Writing

Co-curated by Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Donald Shipton, Collecting the Collector & Processing the Process is a student-curated exhibition that explores avant-garde Canadian poet bp Nichol’s practice as both a collector and creator. On the third floor of SFU’s W.A.C. Bennett Library, materials from Nichol’s various collections are on display. This includes a selection of his robots, a menagerie of “H”‘s, selections from his Dick Tracy comics collection, alongside his other playful projects found in the archives. On display on the seventh floor, at the entrance to SFU’s Rare Books…read more

Oct.13
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Class Notes & Student Feedback (a sampling)

Posted by in Libraries, School

My class notes from LIBR 509: Foundations of Resource Description and Knowledge Organization were uploaded to the UBC/course wiki space. You can find them here A sampling of peer review feedback that I provided on weekly assignments throughout the course can be found here

Apr.20
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