Research Presentations, Digital Library Research Laboratory

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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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    Why Students Use Social Networking Sites After Crisis Situations
    Sheetz, Steven D.; Fox, Edward A.; Fitzgerald, Andrew; Palmer, Sean; Shoemaker, Donald J.; Kavanaugh, Andrea L. (2011)
    Communities respond to tragedy by making virtuous use of social networking sites for a variety of purposes. We asked students to describe why they used a social networking site after the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, then evaluated their responses using content analysis. Students went predominantly to Facebook (99%). Most (59%) of the 426 students that responded went there because their friends were already there, and to find out if their friends were OK (28%) (and to let them know they were OK).