Research Projects
TechBridge: Fostering Digital Literacy and Intergenerational Connection in Montgomery County
Principal Investigator(s): Galina Madjaroff Reitz
Funders: State of MD
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Human-Computer Interaction Youth Experience, Learning, and Digital Practices
TechBridge, funded by the University of Maryland, is an intergenerational mentorship program where students teach older adults digital technologies while gaining communication and career skills. Over 200 students will participate in the program within the next year.
Principal Investigator(s): Galina Madjaroff Reitz
Funders: State of MD
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Human-Computer Interaction Youth Experience, Learning, and Digital Practices
TechBridge, funded by the University of Maryland, is an intergenerational mentorship program where students teach older adults digital technologies while gaining communication and career skills. Over 200 students will participate in the program within the next year.
Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces (T-RACES)
Principal Investigator(s): Richard Marciano
Funders: Unfunded
Research Areas: Archival Science Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization Library and Information Science Machine Learning, AI, Computational Linguistics, and Information Retrieval
Making publicly accessible online documents relating to the practice of “redlining” neighborhoods in the 1930s and 1940s in eight California cities. “Redlining” refers to the practice of flagging minority neighborhoods as undesirable for home loans. The project creates a searchable database and interactive map interface.
Principal Investigator(s): Richard Marciano
Funders: Unfunded
Research Areas: Archival Science Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization Library and Information Science Machine Learning, AI, Computational Linguistics, and Information Retrieval
Making publicly accessible online documents relating to the practice of “redlining” neighborhoods in the 1930s and 1940s in eight California cities. “Redlining” refers to the practice of flagging minority neighborhoods as undesirable for home loans. The project creates a searchable database and interactive map interface.
Transforming Indigenous Archival Search: Evaluating Reparative Aggregation, Linked Data, and Cultural-Technical Infrastructures in the SNAC Platform
Principal Investigator(s): Diana E. Marsh
Funders: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Other Non-Federal
Research Areas: Archival Science
Improving search and access of archival records for Indigenous communities through the web platform SNAC.
Principal Investigator(s): Diana E. Marsh
Funders: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Other Non-Federal
Research Areas: Archival Science
Improving search and access of archival records for Indigenous communities through the web platform SNAC.