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Archival Values: Essays in Honor of Mark A. Greene
Forthcoming Book Chapter (Fall 2019) - reflections on the Society of American Archivists Core Value: Professionalism
"I interpret the value of archival Professionalism as the “characteristics of internalizing a common set of values, defining our importance, and claiming power,” to which I would only add the resulting objective of serving as a bridge between communities and the evidence that makes them so extraordinary."
Forthcoming Book Chapter (Fall 2019) - reflections on the Society of American Archivists Core Value: Professionalism
"I interpret the value of archival Professionalism as the “characteristics of internalizing a common set of values, defining our importance, and claiming power,” to which I would only add the resulting objective of serving as a bridge between communities and the evidence that makes them so extraordinary."
Archives in Context - Episode #7 Dominique Luster
Luster discusses her TED Talk and her role in building community to better steward a large photographic collection documenting African American life in mid-twentieth century Pittsburgh. Her experiences in cleaning up “dirty data” and her thoughts on archivists’ understanding of professionalism round out the conversation.
Luster discusses her TED Talk and her role in building community to better steward a large photographic collection documenting African American life in mid-twentieth century Pittsburgh. Her experiences in cleaning up “dirty data” and her thoughts on archivists’ understanding of professionalism round out the conversation.
GRANT AWARD! Collections as Data: Redefining Creators, Users, and Stewards of the Charles “Teenie” Harris Collection
Supported by A.W. Mellon and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
This project seeks to build upon the rich history of the Teenie Harris archival collection and develop new opportunities for computer-generated creation and computational manipulation of collection metadata that is both produced and used by the African American community and the Carnegie Museum of Art. This project aims to develop and document the service and use capabilities and limitations of machine learning, text parsing, and computer vision technologies to make meaningful contributions to archival metadata. The public facing deliverables will combine the notion of creators and users of the Harris data and will result in a suite of web-based in-gallery interactives that have the functionality of engagement with and contribution to the collection as data.
Supported by A.W. Mellon and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
This project seeks to build upon the rich history of the Teenie Harris archival collection and develop new opportunities for computer-generated creation and computational manipulation of collection metadata that is both produced and used by the African American community and the Carnegie Museum of Art. This project aims to develop and document the service and use capabilities and limitations of machine learning, text parsing, and computer vision technologies to make meaningful contributions to archival metadata. The public facing deliverables will combine the notion of creators and users of the Harris data and will result in a suite of web-based in-gallery interactives that have the functionality of engagement with and contribution to the collection as data.
Service and Sacrifice: An Emmy-award Winning Mini-Documentary
'Pittsburgh 360: Service & Sacrifice,' a mini-documentary Dominique Luster, Teenie Harris Archivist, did with WQED Pittsburgh producer Nathalie Berry, has won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy in the category of Historical/Cultural - Program Feature/Segment! This film was based on the 2018 exhibition, Teenie Harris Photographs: Service and Sacrifice that showcased Harris's images of African American soldiers during World War II. You can view the documentary here: https://www.wqed.org/pittsburgh-360/service-sacrifice
'Pittsburgh 360: Service & Sacrifice,' a mini-documentary Dominique Luster, Teenie Harris Archivist, did with WQED Pittsburgh producer Nathalie Berry, has won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy in the category of Historical/Cultural - Program Feature/Segment! This film was based on the 2018 exhibition, Teenie Harris Photographs: Service and Sacrifice that showcased Harris's images of African American soldiers during World War II. You can view the documentary here: https://www.wqed.org/pittsburgh-360/service-sacrifice
Archives have the power to Boost Marginalized Voices | Dominique Luster | TedxPittsburgh
Archivists have an important job — a job that has the ability to save or erase an individual's history or even the history of an entire people. Dominique Luster works to build a historical view that includes marginalized voices and conscious language. In this talk, she shares lessons of this as put in motion with her work archiving the iconic photography of Charles "Teenie" Harris. Dominique Luster is a native of Kentucky, transplanted to Pittsburgh for school and work, and currently serve as the Teenie Harris Archivist at the Carnegie Museum of Art. As the Teenie Harris Archivist, Luster is working to build a world-renown archive, that is uniquely hyper-specialized on the life of African Americans in the mid 20th century. The Teenie Harris Archive consists of nearly 80,000 images dating from the 1930s to the 1970s; documenting what might be one of the most complete insights into African American urban life at that time. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Archivists have an important job — a job that has the ability to save or erase an individual's history or even the history of an entire people. Dominique Luster works to build a historical view that includes marginalized voices and conscious language. In this talk, she shares lessons of this as put in motion with her work archiving the iconic photography of Charles "Teenie" Harris. Dominique Luster is a native of Kentucky, transplanted to Pittsburgh for school and work, and currently serve as the Teenie Harris Archivist at the Carnegie Museum of Art. As the Teenie Harris Archivist, Luster is working to build a world-renown archive, that is uniquely hyper-specialized on the life of African Americans in the mid 20th century. The Teenie Harris Archive consists of nearly 80,000 images dating from the 1930s to the 1970s; documenting what might be one of the most complete insights into African American urban life at that time. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Shattered Glass Podcast - Episode #8
The summer is winding down and so is Season 1 of Shattered Glass. So for our final episode of this season, we sat down with Dominique Luster. Dominique is the archivist for the Teenie Harris Archive and the first person to hold an endowed archivist position at the Carnegie Museum of Art (insert shattered glass sound effect here). She talks with us about Teenie's lens on life in the 1930s to 1970s, what has and hasn't changed about the role of women, and her resolution to represent people with integrity in the archivist profession.
The summer is winding down and so is Season 1 of Shattered Glass. So for our final episode of this season, we sat down with Dominique Luster. Dominique is the archivist for the Teenie Harris Archive and the first person to hold an endowed archivist position at the Carnegie Museum of Art (insert shattered glass sound effect here). She talks with us about Teenie's lens on life in the 1930s to 1970s, what has and hasn't changed about the role of women, and her resolution to represent people with integrity in the archivist profession.
Adding Luster to the Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive
Dominique Luster, age 25, is not a native Pittsburgher but she might as well be one. As the first endowed archivist of the Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1998) photography archive at the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA), a position that she had held for two years, Luster sees herself as a steward to the community, “preserving a people’s history which must include the community’s sense of ownership of the material.
Dominique Luster, age 25, is not a native Pittsburgher but she might as well be one. As the first endowed archivist of the Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1998) photography archive at the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA), a position that she had held for two years, Luster sees herself as a steward to the community, “preserving a people’s history which must include the community’s sense of ownership of the material.
