| Jane Greenberg, an assistant professor at
UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has received
a $4,000 grant for a research project titled “Scalable, Human-Centered
Search: Improving Information Retrieval Using Author-Generated Metadata.”
The grant is funded by UNC’s Small Grant Research Program and will
be used over the next two years.
The newly funded research is a component of the larger Metadata Generation
Research (MGR) project, which is led by Greenberg and conducted in collaboration
with the National Institute of Environmental Sciences (http://www.ils.unc.edu/~janeg/mgr).
Abe Crystal, a SILS doctoral student who worked on the grant application,
will also be working on this newly funded part of the project.
“The funding will allow us to build and test a search tool showing
how metadata can assist in the retrieval of Web pages,” said Greenberg.
“This is a very important facet of the project – one that
we have been wanting to develop and research.”
The research will test how author-generated metadata, or data about data,
can be optimized to support resource discovery. Other project goals include
developing protocols for collaboration between resource authors and metadata
professionals during the metadata generation process and studying the
integration of collaborative human metadata generation processes and automatic
generation processes.
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