luster.md

layout	title	breadcrumb	teaser	meta_title	permalink	authors	identifier	disciplines	topics	creationdate	source	youtubeid	date_updated
project	Archives, Museums & the Digital Humanities	true	DH methods for public history museum projects.	Archives, Museums & the Digital Humanities	project-videos/luster/	name bio affiliation uri Dominique Luster Dominique Luster is the endowed Charles “Teenie” Harris Archivist at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Teenie Harris was a self-taught African-American photographer whose record of Pittsburgh life in the mid-20th century consists of almost 80,000 images. Luster’s work with the Harris Archive includes innovative uses of information and computational archival science for public engagement. Additionally, Luster’s research looks at various historiographical approaches to culturally competent, racially conscious archival practices. Carnegie Museum of Art	museumdh	history publichistory museums	digitalhistory digitalarthistory digitalpublichistory digitaleditions	2019-07-03	core	xwWf5w1TwPY	2019-08-29

This video examines the Charles "Teenie" Harris photography archive of the Carnegie Museum of Art. The museum staff turned to digital humanities methods to digitize and catalog the 80,000+ photographs in the collection, making them easily accessible for public browsing and use. The project used crowdsourcing to enhance and revise the materials by asking those who had been identified in photos to provide their recollections, which were then used to improve the searching and cataloging algorithms.

Further Reading and Resources

• Teenie Harris, Carnegie Museum of Art Website.
• Archives have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices, a TEDxPittsburgh talk by Dominique Luster.