The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Posted on: Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Broad Research Area: Computer Science Education / Educational Technology, Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography, Information Systems / Information Science, Other, Social Computing / Social Informatics, Technology Policy

Research Interests:

My primary area of research is the long-term curation of digital collections. I’m particularly interested in the professionalization of this work and the diffusion of existing tools and methods (e.g. digital forensics, web archiving, automated implementation of policies) into professional practice. I’m editing and providing several chapters to a forthcoming book entitled, I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era. I’ve also initiated an international Personal Digital Archives Working Group (PDAWG).

The VidArch project (http://ils.unc.edu/vidarch/) has investigated the collection of online video, with a particularly emphasis on contextual information. My contributions have included an information model for contextual information in digital collections (http://sils.unc.edu/research/publications/reports/TR_2007_04.pdf) and several empirical studies of online selection and collecting strategies.

Other current projects include DigCCurr and DigCCurrII (http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/), which are developing and implementing courses of study and practical engagement opportunities in digital curation. I’ve developed an extensive Matrix of Digital Curation Knowledge and Competencies (http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr/products.html), based on various data sources and grounded in professional literature.

Past research projects have included CAMiLEON (http://www.ils.unc.edu/callee/dig-pres_users-perspective.pdf), which examined migration vs. emulation as digital preservation strategies; and an in-depth case study of the development of the OAIS (http://www.ils.unc.edu/callee/dissertation_callee.pdf).

Contact Information:

The best way to reach me is via email.