Research Presentations, Digital Library Research Laboratory

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    Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network (CTRnet)
    Fox, Edward A. (2009-09-14)
    This poster provides an overview of the Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network (CTRnet). The objectives of CTRnet are to build a digital library and preserve information (in various formats like HTML, images, videos, etc.) relating to all kinds of community crises and tragedies, as well as to integrate communities, content, and services relating to CTR.
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    Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network Digital Library (CTRnet)
    Chitturi, Kiran; Fox, Edward A. (2013-01-10)
    This presentation outlines the goals of the Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery Network (CTRnet) project. These goals include researching the problems of integrating content, community, services related to crisis, tragedies, and recovery; integrating heterogeneous information in a specific domain, making it accessible, and preserving it for long-term reuse; extending the scope of digital libraries so they are closely but flexibly coupled with a wide variety of services to support diverse emerging communities; and supporting information exploration with advanced methods (Stepping Stones and Pathways (SSP), PathRank, and Storytelling) that facilitate searching, browsing, and discovery.
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    Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network Digital Library (CTRnet) + Web Archiving in Qatar and VT
    Fox, Edward A.; Yang, Seungwon; CTRnet Team (2013-07-01)
    This presentation describes the Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network's digital library development and web archiving activities in Qatar and Virginia Tech. The presentation covers project goals, archiving tasks, dissemination efforts, and the IDEAL project.
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    The Making of Leork: The Virginia Tech Linux Laptop Orchestra
    Bukvic, Ivica Ico; Matthews, Michael; Renfro, Maya; Wood, Andrew (2009)
    This poster describes the making of Leork, the Virginia Tech Linux Laptop Orchestra. The challenge of the project was to assemble a laptop orchestra using open source software, create self-constructed speakers, and obtain netbooks for a minimal cost. The project goals were to design and build a website, build hemispherical speakers, and construct software patches in Pure Data. At the project's conclusion, 16 hemispherical speakers were built, a website was developed and made available at 12ork.music.vt.edu, and all software patches were completed.
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    Multitouch Tables for Collaborative Learning
    George, Jacob; Dorsey, Desiree; de Araujo, Eric; Wilson, Gregory; McCrickard, D. Scott (2010)
    This 2010 REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) poster describes multitouch tables for collaborative learning. The poster presents the benefits and barriers of using multitouch in the classroom, potential research questions, and future work such as creating educator toolkits to support custom content creation.
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    Twitter Use During an Emergency Event: The Case of UT Austin Shooting
    Li, Lin Tzy; Yang, Seungwon; Kavanaugh, Andrea L.; Fox, Edward A.; Sheetz, Steven D.; Shoemaker, Donald J. (2011-06-01)
    This poster presents one of our efforts developed in the context of Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network (CTRnet) project. One of our derived works from this project is the use of social media by government to respond to emergency events in towns and counties. Monitoring social media information for unusual behavior can help identify these events once we can characterize their patterns. As an example, we analyzed the campus shooting occurred in the University of Texas, Austin, on September 28, 2010. In order to study the pattern of communication and the information communicated using social media on that day, we collected publicly available data from Twitter. Collected tweets were analyzed and visualized using Natural Language Toolkit, word clouds, and graphs. They showed how news and posts related to this event swamped the discussions of other issues.