Research Projects
Filtered by: Digital Humanities
Crowdsourced Data: Accuracy, Accessibility, Authority (CDAAA)
Principal Investigator(s): Victoria Van Hyning
Funders: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Digital Humanities Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics Library and Information Science Social Networks, Online Communities, and Social Media
CDAAA explores the sociotechnical barriers libraries, archives, and museums face in integrating crowdsourced transcriptions to discovery systems. Using data from surveys, semi-structured interviews, data integration demonstrations, and user testing with people who use screen readers, we will produce individualized LAM Partner Reports, a summative white paper, and open-access journal articles.
Principal Investigator(s): Victoria Van Hyning
Funders: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Digital Humanities Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics Library and Information Science Social Networks, Online Communities, and Social Media
CDAAA explores the sociotechnical barriers libraries, archives, and museums face in integrating crowdsourced transcriptions to discovery systems. Using data from surveys, semi-structured interviews, data integration demonstrations, and user testing with people who use screen readers, we will produce individualized LAM Partner Reports, a summative white paper, and open-access journal articles.
Inverting Colonial Archival Structures: Increasing Discovery and Access for Indigenous Communities through SNAC
Principal Investigator(s): Diana E. Marsh
Funders: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Archival Science Digital Humanities Library and Information Science Social Networks, Online Communities, and Social Media
Inverting Colonial Archival Structures: Increasing Discovery and Access for Indigenous Communities through SNAC (Indigenize SNAC) aims to test discovery and access of archival records for indigenous communities through the web platform Social Networks for Archival Contexts (SNAC). The project is funded by the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program.
Principal Investigator(s): Diana E. Marsh
Funders: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Archival Science Digital Humanities Library and Information Science Social Networks, Online Communities, and Social Media
Inverting Colonial Archival Structures: Increasing Discovery and Access for Indigenous Communities through SNAC (Indigenize SNAC) aims to test discovery and access of archival records for indigenous communities through the web platform Social Networks for Archival Contexts (SNAC). The project is funded by the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program.
UMD INFO College Fellows Program at the National Agricultural Library
Principal Investigator(s): Katrina Fenlon
Funders: US Department of Agriculture
Research Areas: Archival Science Digital Humanities Library and Information Science Youth Experience, Learning, and Digital Practices
Principal Investigator(s): Katrina Fenlon
Funders: US Department of Agriculture
Research Areas: Archival Science Digital Humanities Library and Information Science Youth Experience, Learning, and Digital Practices