 Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB)
Uses automatic techniques to harvest subject descriptors for high quality metadata for digital images
CLIS Faculty: Judith Klavans, Jimmy Lin, Dagobert Soergel
Sponsor: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
 DHB
A Computation Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of the Judicial System
Uses automated content analysis techniques drawing from computational linguistics and information retrieval to study this social system
CLIS Faculty: Jimmy Lin
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
 Digital Archives of the Birth of the Dot Com Era Project
Aims to preserve and make accessible the digital records of a defunct
law firm whose clients included many failed dot com ventures
CLIS Faculty: Susan Davis
Sponsor: Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
 Global Autonomous Language Exploration (GALE)
Develops and applies technologies to absorb, analyze, and interpret
huge volumes of speech and text in multiple languages
CLIS Faculty: Jimmy Lin, Judith Klavans, Douglas W. Oard
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO)
 International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)
Investigates how children access and use digital books to explore
diverse cultures using a library containing 1,000 digitized books
CLIS Faculty: Allison Druin, Ann Weeks
Sponsors: National Science Foundation; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Microsoft Corporation; Adobe Systems Incorporated
 International Children's Digital Library Communities Project
Investigates how to support an online global community of children who
don't speak the same languages but want to share the same digital
resources
CLIS Faculty: Allison Druin, Jenny Preece, Ann Weeks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
 Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery (JIKD)
Helps users make sense of large digital eMail and speech data
collections by formulating and applying innovative ideas and software
solutions
CLIS Faculty: Susan Davis, Jimmy Lin, Douglas W. Oard
 Multi-Language Access to Large Spoken Archives (MALACH)
Develops
technology for information retrieval for spontaneous, conversational
speech working with oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors
CLIS Faculty: Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
 National Park Service Digital Field trips
Enables young people to take technologies into the world of the
National Parks by using mobile technologies to access, use and create
digital information that enriches their physical experiences
CLIS Faculty: Allison Druin
Sponsor: National Park Service
 New Mobile Technologies for Children
Investigates how technology can support learning in early childhood education environments
CLIS Faculty: Allison Druin
Sponsor: Microsoft Research
Robust Technologies for Automated Ingest
Explores automated ingest and verification for distributed digital
collections, developing and testing a preservation architecture that
can "evolve gracefully" as technology changes and that is interoperable
with different computer platforms
CLIS Faculty: Allison Druin, Douglas W. Oard
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Subject Specialists for Research Libraries (SSAL)
Investigates training for subject specialist librarians
CLIS Faculty: Diane Barlow
Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services
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