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ARL Academy Fellows at UNC
ARL is partnering with three LIS schools — UNC at Chapel Hill, Catholic University of America and Simmons
College — to identify, recruit and support students who enter a library
science master’s program with advanced degrees from other fields.
Principal Investigator: Joanne Gard Marshall
Automatic Metadata Generation Applications (AMeGA)
The goal of the AMeGA project is to identify and recommend functionalities for applications supporting automatic metadata generation in the library / bibliographic control community.
Principal Investigator: Jane Greenberg
Bioinformatics
The goal of the bioinformatics research group is to understand how users seek out bioinformatics knowledge, how they make use of this information, how bioinformatics information and knowledge should best be structured and how to construct user interfaces that best support bioinformatician's information seeking and use.
Principal Investigators: Brad Hemminger, Cathy Blake
Digital Libraries Curriculum Development
SILS is collaborating with Virginia Tech (with funding from the National Science Foundation), to develop and evaluate approximately 12 lesson/modules that can support the education of digital library professionals in either schools of library and information science or computer science departments. After refinement and field testing, these modules will be made available through the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
Principal Investigators: Barbara Wildemuth and Jeffrey Pomerantz
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)
Our goal is to change from paper to electronic theses and dissertations at UNC, with the result of making UNC research more visible, more accessible and more easily produced. Additionally, changing from paper to ETDs would be at least cost neutral, if not a cost savings. It also provides students with valuable electronic publishing experience.
Principal Investigator: Brad Hemminger
Evaluation of the State Library of North Carolina's Statewide Virtual Reference Service
This evaluation of the State Library of North Carolina's (SLNC) Statewide Virtual Reference Service seeks to answer the evaluation question: “Is collaborative virtual reference an effective way to meet the information needs of North Carolinians?” The project seeks to answer the evaluation question over an 18-month evaluation effort. This evaluation effort has three objectives: to evaluate the statewide Virtual Reference Service from the perspective of (1) the individual libraries participating in the Statewide Virtual Reference Service, (2) the entire collaborative effort and (3) the library patrons.
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Pomerantz
Selected publications:
Pomerantz, J., & McClure, C. (forthcoming). Evaluation of a Statewide
Collaborative Chat-based Reference Service: Approaches and Directions.
Paper presented at the ASIST Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
GovStat
The GovStat Project seeks to create an integrated model of user access to and use of U.S. government statistical information that is rooted in realistic data models and innovative user interfaces.
Our vision of integration ultimately aims to make resident-government interactions in the statistical data realm more of a partnership rather than strictly a one-way dissemination of information.
Principal Investigators: Stephanie W. Haas and Gary Marchionini
Lyceum
As an open source blogsphere tool, Lyceum gives workgroups, classes, friends, companies and projects the ability to have their own blogsphere. Everyone can blog, and no one has to hand-install a blog or sign up with a commercial service.
Principal Investigators: Jeffrey Pomerantz
Managing the Digital University Desktop
The mission of the project is to study computer file management practices in academic units and administrative offices at UNC at Chapel Hill, across the 16-campus UNC System and at Duke University.
This research will produce tools that will attempt to help us all manage our computer files and email better and to preserve the universities' digital institutional memory.
Principal Investigators: Helen Tibbo and Timothy Pyatt
Metadata Generation Research (MGR)
The MGR project is developing a model that will facilitate the most efficient and effective means of metadata production by integrating human and automatic processes.
Principal Investigator: Jane Greenberg
Neoref
NeoRef is an archive for any digital original material including articles, research notes, books, genetic sequences, and concepts, and for derived data including indexing, reviews, claims. It's intent is to show how all scholarly materials can be stored, searched and retreived conveniently without the need for the traditional framework of publishers and review systems.
Principal Investigator: Brad Hemminger
Openkey
The Openkey Project seeks to revolutionize access to botanical resources by incorporating the methods botanists use to identify plant species and by simplifying and visualizing the process of identification.
Principal Investigators: Jane Greenberg, Evelyn Daniel and Peter White
Open Video
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
Principal Investigators: Gary Marchionini and Barbara M. Wildemuth
Recruiting Medical Students into Health Sciences Librarianship: Pursuing the Informationist Concept through a Dual Degree Model
With IMLS support, SILS is working with Duke University School of Medicine to support medical students who are interested in information-related careers. Two cohorts of two students each will complete a master's degree at SILS during their research practicum at Duke.
Principal Investigators: Barbara Wildemuth, Claudia Gollop, Peggy Schaeffer, Patricia Thibodeau (Duke), and Robert James (Duke)
TRLN Doctoral Fellows Program
The TRLN Doctoral Fellows Program is a collaborative effort of SILS and the Triangle Research Libraries
Network (TRLN), comprising the libraries of Duke University, North
Carolina Central University (NCCU), North Carolina State University
(NCSU) and UNC at Chapel Hill.
Fellows are full-time doctoral students who spend 20 hours a week
throughout the year in the assigned academic library. This
collaboration between SILS and the TRLN libraries will allow fellows to
explore linking research to library and information practice.
Principal Investigator: Joanne Gard Marshall
Virseum
Virtual museums provide ways to capture the content of a real museum in a digitial (electronic) form and make this digital form more universally available. Virseum is a novel method involving digitally recording not only individual museum pieces, but entire museum exhibits (consisting of one or more rooms or spaces). The technique digitizes the entire contents of the rooms in an exhibit. The methodology allows anyone with access to the internet or a PC to experience anywhere, anytime, any part of the museum's collection or exhibits (past, present and future). Users can explore the museum exhibits in a virtual reality that is both spatially accurate and visually compelling.
Principal Investigators: Brad Hemminger, Gerard Bolas (Ackland Museum) and Doug Schiff (3rdTech)