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Chicago Community Informatics

Investigator
Kate Williams
Total funding to date
$199,796.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

In this Early Career Development project, Williams used a social capital/social network model to research actual and potential IT use in six disadvantaged communities across Chicago. The research analyzed how people and communities are already using computers and the Internet, and how their own lives and identities might be represented as part of our nation's cyberinfrastructure.

Children, Comics, and Print Culture

Time frame
2015-2018
Investigator
Carol Tilley
Total funding to date
$19,036.00
Funding agency
University of Illinois Research Board

This project expands Tilley’s investigation of comics from the perspective of readers, a much-neglected group in both contemporary and historical research. Comics readership among young people peaked in the mid-twentieth century with levels reaching near 100%, yet there has been little scholarly investigation of this phenomenon. Funding for this project will enable archival research trips and…

Closing the App Gap: From Plan to Project I

Time frame
2012-2014
Investigator
Kate McDowell
Total funding to date
$46,678.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

This project allies with IMLS’s support of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading with an exploration of the use of tablet computers, apps, and e-books in public libraries as a tool against summer reading loss. It will engage with experts in scholarship and practice to define the public library’s role in selecting and providing existing digital media for younger children, especially those…

Collaborative Research: ABI Development: Kurator: A Provenance-enabled Workflow Platform and Toolkit to Curate Biodiversity Data

Time frame
2014-2019
Investigator
Bertram Ludäscher
Total funding to date
$748,931.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Data curation is a critical step in scientific data digitization, sharing, integration and use. The considerable resources allocated to digitization of natural science collections in the U.S. and globally require a focus on both digitization efficiencies and the utility of the generated data. One way to address both issues is to employ workflow software to automate and streamline data curation…

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Collaborative Research: BiSciCol Tracker

Investigator
Linda C. Smith

“Scientific collections created and used in basic research are an integral part of the nation’s scientific infrastructure. They hold specimens of plants, animals, microbes, fossils, minerals and other artifacts that together comprise a national legacy of biological diversity”. (NSF Scientific Collections Survey, 2009). Individual specimens in these collections serve as the anchor for an…

Collaborative Research: DAT: From grant to commercialization

Investigator
Vetle Torvik
Total funding to date
$455,165.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

This project develops a freely available database that links Medline papers and U.S. patents, through identification of individuals who authored both papers and patents and analysis of citations between papers and patents. These patent-paper-author links will then enable identification of similar organizations and in some cases, science/technology field and geography. Co-authorship networks…

Computational Impact Assessment of Issue Focused Media and Information Products

Time frame
2012-2016
Investigator
Jana Diesner
Total funding to date
$450,000.00
Funding agency
Ford Foundation

The overall goal with this project was to propose a solution for measuring impact of social justice documentaries in a theoretically grounded, systematic, empirical, scalable and rigorous fashion using computational approaches and to gain novel substantive knowledge providing actionable insights for film makers and funders.

The project has been conducted for the 2012~2016 period and…

Data Curation Education Program

Investigator
Allen Renear
Total funding to date
$852,502.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

The primary goal of the Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) is to design a program of graduate study that can serve as a model for training data curators (DCs) within the context of a larger LIS education. Secondarily, we intend to integrate this graduate training with ongoing research and practice to produce specialists that understand the research culture and can make substantive…

DataONE (Observation Network for Earth)

Time frame
2013-2017
Investigator
Bertram Ludäscher
Total funding to date
$416,623.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is a collaborative, global project that is laying the groundwork for a new, innovative approach to conducting environmental science research. DataONE is a distributed framework and sustainable infrastructue poised to resolve many of the key challenges that hinder the realization of more global,…

DCEP-H

Investigators
Allen Renear, Carole Palmer
Total funding to date
$892,028.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Specific objectives are: 1. Develop and refine a humanities data curation curriculum. 2. Develop a network of internship sites at libraries, museums, digital archives and digital humanities centers. 3. Promote the role of LIS professionals in humanities data curation and expand the understanding of the role of digital data curation in humanities research. 4. Disseminate best practice reports…