The Semantic Lab

Research Open House 2022

M. Cristina Pattuelli

Matt Miller

Julie Carlson, MSLIS ’22
Jessika Davis, MDC ’23
Teresa Ferguson, MSLIS ’22
Miranda Siler, MSLIS/MA History of Art and Design ‘22

Sarah Ann Adams, Research Fellow
Karen Li-Lun Hwang, Research Fellow

School of Information

The Semantic Lab at Pratt uses linked open data to facilitate digital arts and humanities research.

One of their current projects, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) + Linked Open Data (LOD), is a collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives.

artists stand around a row of variously lit lightbulbs. — Herb Schneider, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucinda Childs, L.J. Robinson, Per Biorn and Billy Klüver surrounding the Theater Electronic Environmental Modulator (TEEM) system.

In this project, the Semantic Lab has been transforming 141 archival documents into linked data, unearthing interesting and unexpected connections.