As funding agencies and publishers reiterate research data sharing expectations (1), many higher-education institutions have demonstrated their commitment to the long-term stewardship of research data by connecting researchers to local infrastructure, with dedicated staffing, that eases the burden of data sharing. Institutional repositories are an ...
In the era of total digitization of documents, navigating vast and heterogeneous data landscapes presents significant challenges for effective information retrieval, both for humans and digital agents. Traditional methods of knowledge organization often struggle to keep pace with evolving user demands, resulting in suboptimal outcomes such as infor...
This qualitative study is an exploration of how women in higher education information technology (IT) positions navigate constructing their leadership identities. This includes the messy, personal, internal identity work that occurs prior to claiming their leadership identities on the public stage, followed by an examination of what the experience ...
We make the case for building a permanent public-use platform for conducting and analyzing immersive interviews on the everyday lives of Americans. The American Voices Project (AVP)—a widely watched experiment with this new platform—provides important early evidence on its promise. The articles in this issue reveal that, although public-use intervi...
From 2005 through 2023, the UNL Digital Commons grew to be a leading example of an institutional repository. This presentation reports on personnel, history, strategy, and outstanding examples of series or contributors. Announcement about the session: UNL Digital Commons began in 2005 and grew into America’s 3rd-largest and most-trafficked institut...
Advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to produce accurate results and preserve user privacy for use cases involving domain-specific knowledge. A privacy-preserving approach for leveraging LLM capabilities on domain-specific knowledge could greatly expand the use cases of LLMs in a variety of disciplines and industries. This project explore...
During the 2022-2023 academic year, Nelnet Consumer Services sponsored a Design Studio team with the project of developing Clarity, a centralized knowledge base solution for managing lender and loan program information. The Nelnet Consumer Services segment of Nelnet is a full-service originator and servicer of private educational and personal loan ...
This project addressed the need for Financial Service Officers (FSO’s) to have a system to discover and visualize real-time Customer Operation relationships across the Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA) customer base through the connection of a variety of datasets within the FCSA data cloud platform. Insights gained through this tool could be u...
The goal of the Speedway Motors Multi-Channel Product Information Management project was to design a solution that would allow Speedway Motors to add and update product information to their online auto part catalogue more efficiently. Previously, Speedway Motors content specialists cleaned and formatted all incoming data manually, which made produc...
NRC Health is in the business of improving healthcare. They partner with healthcare organizations to gather feedback from their patients to offer insights into how organizations can provide better patient experiences and care. NRC Health tasked the team with creating a proof-of-concept phone survey system to explore how innovative new technologies ...
