Research Projects
Filtered by: Library and Information Science
Crowdsourced Data: Accuracy, Accessibility, Authority (CDAAA)
Principal Investigator(s): Victoria Van Hyning
Funders: 8/1/2022 - 4/9/2025 Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Archival Science 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.
Principal Investigator(s): Victoria Van Hyning
Funders: 8/1/2022 - 4/9/2025 Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Archival Science 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.
Digital Curation Fellows Program at the National Agricultural Library 2021-2026
Principal Investigator(s): Katrina Fenlon
Funders: US Department of Agriculture
Research Areas: Archival Science Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization Library and Information Science
The Digital Curation Fellows program is a partnership with the National Agricultural Library (NAL) to provide students from across all iSchool programs with research and practical experience solving real-world digital curation challenges. Digital curation fellows have contributed to numerous initiatives during this program’s several-year history, such as developing digital preservation plans, researching user experience, evaluating metadata quality, assessing diversity and equity of representation in digital collections, building new digital archives, and creating data analytics dashboards.
Principal Investigator(s): Katrina Fenlon
Funders: US Department of Agriculture
Research Areas: Archival Science Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization Library and Information Science
The Digital Curation Fellows program is a partnership with the National Agricultural Library (NAL) to provide students from across all iSchool programs with research and practical experience solving real-world digital curation challenges. Digital curation fellows have contributed to numerous initiatives during this program’s several-year history, such as developing digital preservation plans, researching user experience, evaluating metadata quality, assessing diversity and equity of representation in digital collections, building new digital archives, and creating data analytics dashboards.
Investigating the Information Practices of COVID Long-Haulers
Principal Investigator(s): Beth St. Jean Twanna Hodge Jane Behre J. Nicole Miller Miranda Downey
Funders: State of MD
Research Areas: Health Informatics Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics Library and Information Science
This project investigates the information needs, practices, and experiences of people who have long COVID ("COVID long-haulers") in order to learn more about their COVID-related information needs, the ways in which they have gone about fulfilling these needs, and their information-related experiences. W
Principal Investigator(s): Beth St. Jean Twanna Hodge Jane Behre J. Nicole Miller Miranda Downey
Funders: State of MD
Research Areas: Health Informatics Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics Library and Information Science
This project investigates the information needs, practices, and experiences of people who have long COVID ("COVID long-haulers") in order to learn more about their COVID-related information needs, the ways in which they have gone about fulfilling these needs, and their information-related experiences. W
Launching the TALENT Network to Promote the Training of Archival & Library Educators w. iNnovative Technologies
Principal Investigator(s): Richard Marciano
Funders: 8/1/2022 – 4/9/2025 Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Archival Science Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization Library and Information Science
Creating a national community focused on developing digital expertise and leadership skills among archival and library educators.
Principal Investigator(s): Richard Marciano
Funders: 8/1/2022 – 4/9/2025 Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Archival Science Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization Library and Information Science
Creating a national community focused on developing digital expertise and leadership skills among archival and library educators.
Libraries, Integration, and New Americans: Understanding immigrant acculturative stress
Principal Investigator(s): Ana Ndumu
Funders: 8/1/2021 – 7/31/2024 Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics Library and Information Science
This project aims to advance library and information science knowledge of immigrant well-being and increase capacity for libraries to serve as trusted spaces.
Principal Investigator(s): Ana Ndumu
Funders: 8/1/2021 – 7/31/2024 Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics Library and Information Science
This project aims to advance library and information science knowledge of immigrant well-being and increase capacity for libraries to serve as trusted spaces.
Ready Now: Supporting Youth and Families During Crisis
Principal Investigator(s): Mega Subramaniam Nitzan Koren
Funders: 8/1/2023 - 4/9/2025 Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Library and Information Science
This project aims to broaden and improve the efficacy of the publication: Library Staff as Public Servants: A Field Guide for Preparing to Support Communities in Crisis.
Principal Investigator(s): Mega Subramaniam Nitzan Koren
Funders: 8/1/2023 - 4/9/2025 Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Library and Information Science
This project aims to broaden and improve the efficacy of the publication: Library Staff as Public Servants: A Field Guide for Preparing to Support Communities in Crisis.
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.
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