{"id":13,"date":"2012-02-02T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/digitaltalks\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2015-05-04T16:14:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T16:14:04","slug":"in-the-stacks-of-the-livebrary-by-jeffrey-schnapp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/lectures\/in-the-stacks-of-the-livebrary-by-jeffrey-schnapp\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Stacks of the Livebrary by Jeffrey Schnapp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-35\" title=\"Jeffrey Schnapp In the Stacks of the Livebrary\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/05\/schnapp01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.4777643259149045\">ABSTRACT<br \/>\n<\/strong>Jeffrey Schnapp presented on Harvard University MetaLab\u2019s <em>Livebrary<\/em>. The\u00a0<em>Livebrary<\/em>\u00a0is a data visualization appliance that exposes the multilayered life of the Harvard Library System in real time through a set of visualizations delivered on a large touchscreen. The touchscreen allows library users to explore what is happening system-wide on a variety of scales: data flows, traffic patterns, emerging search and discovery patterns, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.4777643259149045\">BIO<br \/>\n<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-47\" title=\"Jeffrey Schnapp\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/05\/schnapp03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"174\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyschnapp.com\/\">Jeffrey Schnapp<\/a> is a cultural historian who works in the digital humanities and on digital approaches to cultural programming. He is a fellow at Harvard University\u2019s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a Professor of Romance Languages &amp; Literatures and Comparative Literature, a teaching faculty member at the Graduate School of Design, and the faculty director of<a href=\"http:\/\/metalab.harvard.edu\/\"> metaLAB (at) Harvard<\/a>. Before moving to Harvard in 2011, Schnapp occupied the Pierotti Chair of Italian Studies at Stanford, where he founded the<a href=\"http:\/\/shl.stanford.edu\/\"> Stanford Humanities Lab<\/a>. His most recent books are <em>Speed Limits<\/em> and <em>The Electric Information Age Book<\/em> (a collaboration with the designer Adam Michaels of<a href=\"http:\/\/projectprojects.com\/\"> Project Projects<\/a>)(Princeton Architectural Press, January 2012). Also forthcoming in 2012 are <em><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyschnapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Untitled-2.png\">Digital_Humanities<\/a><\/em> (MIT Press) a book co-written with Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, and Todd Presner; <em>Modernitalia<\/em> (Peter Lang), a collection of essays on 20th century Italian cultural history being edited by Francesca Santovetti, and <em>Italiamerica<\/em> (Il Saggiatore), vol. 2, co-edited with Emanuela Scarpellini.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In 2011, Jeffrey created a class in collaboration with\u00a0John Palfrey on the past, present, and future of the library. From the class, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarytestkitchen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library Test Kitchen<\/a> was born. The project will continue to grow as\u00a0the 21st century library continues to grow. Here is\u00a0a modest broadsheet documenting the early work of the Library Test Kitchen :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/digitaltalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/LibraryTestKitchen_newspaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Library Test Kitchen Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT Jeffrey Schnapp presented on Harvard University MetaLab\u2019s Livebrary. The\u00a0Livebrary\u00a0is a data visualization appliance that exposes the multilayered life of the Harvard Library System in real time through a set of visualizations delivered on a large touchscreen. The touchscreen allows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/lectures\/in-the-stacks-of-the-livebrary-by-jeffrey-schnapp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/100"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}