Inactive Research Projects

 

DAM-Developing a Digital Asset Management System for the Archival Holdings of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Principal Investigator(s): Richard Marciano
Funder: USDOI National Park Service
Research Areas: Archival Science > Digital Humanities > Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics
Creating a cutting-edge Digital Asset Management System with the National Park Service (NPS) to preserve and manage the digital assets of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site.
Data Analytics for Community Decision-Making
Principal Investigator(s): Susan Winter
Funder: National Science Foundation
Research Areas: Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization > Smart Cities and Connected Communities
The project aims to find out how local communities can benefit from the advances in big data and data analytic technologies and how such technologies can create an innovation-supporting environment to stimulate economic growth in recovering communities.
Data Analytics to Support Innovation Communities
Principal Investigator(s): Susan Winter
Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization > Future of Work > Smart Cities and Connected Communities
Dr. Susan Winter and Andrew Fellows will lead the effort to bring advanced data analytics and business intelligence services to public libraries in Prince George’s County.
Developing a Computational Framework for Library and Archival Education
Principal Investigator(s): Richard Marciano
Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Archival Science > Library and Information Science > Youth Experience, Learning, and Digital Practices
UMD held a workshop to create the building blocks of a Master's level educational curriculum to educate the next generation of librarians and archivists in the computational treatments of collections.
Digital Curation Fellows Program at the National Agricultural Library
Principal Investigator(s): Katrina Fenlon
Funder: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Research Areas: Archival Science > Digital Humanities > Library and Information Science > Youth Experience, Learning, and Digital Practices
Working with students in the iSchool's newly created specialization in data curation to build the workforce of the future in the field of digital curation and user access for scientific data and literature with an emphasis on agriculture and agricultural informatics.
Doctoral Consortium for ASSETS 2019
Principal Investigator(s): Amanda Lazar
Funder: National Science Foundation
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design > Machine Learning, AI, Computational Linguistics, and Information Retrieval > Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization
This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) of approximately 15 promising graduate students (up to 10 from the United States, who will be funded by this award), along with about 5 distinguished research faculty.
E-VERIFY: System for Cross-Language Information Processing, Translation, and Summarization (SCRIPTS)
Principal Investigator(s): Douglas W. Oard
Funder: Columbia University Other
Research Areas: Machine Learning, AI, Computational Linguistics, and Information Retrieval
Creating a powerful online search engine tool with built-in multilingual-to-English translation. A collaboration of the University of Maryland (UMD), Columbia University, Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh.
Enhancing Digital Privacy and Security Skills for Low-Socioeconomic Families: Resources for Librarians and Patrons
Principal Investigator(s): Jessica Vitak Mega Subramaniam
Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Research Areas: Accessibility and Inclusive Design > Data Privacy and Sociotechnical Cybersecurity > Library and Information Science
Bringing together researchers, low socioeconomic status (SES) families, and public library partners to identify the privacy and security challenges librarians and low-SES families face using internet and communication technologies and to develop a suite of educational and professional development resources for both librarians and low-SES families

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