Cultural Heritage Informatics - Ph.D. in Communication & Information
Cultural heritage informatics (CHI) is an emerging field of interdisciplinary research and practice concerned with the role of information and computing technologies (ICTs) to support the creation, capture, organization, and pluralization of culture, in whatever form, as heritage. While there is a focus on existing data, datasets, and metadata and ways to link them, CHI also necessarily includes identification and exploration into appraisal, data capture, preservation, data processing, curation, forensics and reconstruction, visualization, documentation, access and discoverability, as well as development of innovative technologies to empower and support engagement with ICTs as tools for communication and remembering of culture. The outcomes of this work include identification, exploration, and extension of systems and frameworks (including standards, policy, technology, legal, and organizational requirements) across multiple stakeholders, including researchers, cultural heritage institutions, professional communities, and creators.
Core Faculty - iSchool
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Professor330-672-0049Digital Preservation, Preservation Education, Preservation of Moving Images, Social Contexts of Information Creation and Use, Focusing on Ethics and Values, Information Policy, Focusing on Intellectual Property Issues, Digital Curation, Linked Open Data, Moving image archiving
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Professor330-672-2782Publishing for Young Readers / Genre Construction and the Commodification of Books / International Children's Literature / Transnational Publishing, Youth Services Librarianship / Reviews / Awards / the Literary Canon and Arbiters of Taste, Children's Information Seeking Behavior, Gendered Professions within Publishing and Librarianship for Young Readers
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Associate Professor330-672-9715Health Informatics, Medical Sociology, Gerontology, Experience Design Research
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Professor330-672-0023Organization Of Information, Metadata, Knowledge Organization Systems, Conceptual Modeling of Information, User-Information Interactions, User Interface Evaluation, User Experience Studies
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Associate Professor330-672-0008Archives, records management, and preservation
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Professor330-672-0009Knowledge Organization and Representation / Thesaurus / Taxonomy and Ontology, Linked Data and Metadata, Database Quality Control, Multilingual & Multicultural Information Processing