The Secure Hub for Access, Reliability, and Exchange of Data (SHARED) is funded by the NSF ($499,998). SHARED provides federated data storage for projects across disciplines to facilitate collaboration and best practice in data management. It is integrated with UChicago’s institutional repository for data sharing according to FAIR principles. SHARED is led by the University Library and Research Computing Center, with collaboration from University Information Technology Services, the Data Sciences Institute, and the Physical Sciences Division.
–Senior Personnel
UChicagoNode transforms UChicago’s creation, stewardship, and delivery of digital collections and research data. The University of Chicago Library and Division of the Humanities will use the grant to build a new digital structure that gives researchers a single place to go to discover available digital collections through a unified, open access platform. The initiative is funded by an NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant ($1m plus organizational commitment to fundraise $4m).
-Outreach and Training Lead
The GIS Librarians for Open Workflows (GLOW) forums are a collaboration between the UChicago Library and the University Consortium for Geospatial Information Science (UCGIS) funded by an IMLS National Leadership Grant ($133,992). The Library hosted exchanges with librarians around their existing consulting and instructional workflows and practices, and their development and use of open educational resources (OERs). By examining workflows, building on shared vocabularies and practices, and reviewing commonly used GIS data digital platforms, the forums developed a community of practice that improves the quality of GIS services. The forums focused on concrete examples from social justice, health, and infrastructure to ensure that their outcomes can be applied to identified patron needs. GLOW was awarded a 2024 Esri Special Achievement in GIS Award.
-Principal Investigator
Mapping Chicagoland is an NEH grant-funded ($348,930) project that brings together historical maps of Chicago from the UChicago Library, Newberry Library, and Chicago History Museum into one open portal. Materials from the partner institutions will be digitized, georeferenced, and cataloged at UChicago Library. The images will also be discoverable through Chicago Collections and the BTAA Geoportal.
–Principal Investigator/Project Director
Resurrecting the 1970s Guerilla Television Movement is a CLIR grant funded ($459,150) project between Media Burn and the UChicago Library to digitize, catalog, and make accessible over 1,000 recordings made using portable video cameras in the 1960s and 1970s. Access to this new technology created a participatory media that was now more accessible to different groups such as women, Black, Indigenous and people of color, immigrants, and Appalachian miners. The project brings together a consortium of partners who curate these videos around the country to form the Guerilla Television Network.
–Co-Principal Investigator
Academic Library Support for Sensitive Data Research studied the trends in reference, consultation, and instruction involving sensitive data.
–Co-Principal Investigator
Geomasking techniques are methods to obscure sensitive archaeological data.
-Principal Investigator
The US Covid Atlas is a visualization tool led by a University of Chicago research coalition. The tool connects COVID case data and community indicators across the United States. It connects users to relevant social, economic, and health indicators to provide meaningful community context.
-Coalition Design & Communications Team Member
The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (NADL) is a community of nautical archaeologists and provides a framework for cataloging and standardizing ship remains. The now sunsetted Modern Shipwrecks provided a global standard for ship measurements and will be incorporated into NADL.
-Project Coordinator
The Mapping UChicago Project draws on archival research to present the history of the university in an interactive experience. Primary materials are integrated with digital tools that allow users to explore UChicago’s development. Graduate student fellows shape the research and design process.
–Project Coordinator & Fellow Supervisor
The Texas Data Repository is a platform for publishing and archiving research data.
-Implementation Working Group Member
DataQ is a community forum for librarians supporting research data services.
-Co-Editor
Guides and tutorials introduce QGIS and ArcGIS navigation.
-Author
A sample of my published cartographic works.
-Cartographer
From 2012 to 2013, I conducted archaeological survey and excavation in the Philippines as a Fulbright Scholar.
-Principal Investigator
My dissertation, Haven Geographies and the Indigenous Prestige Economies of Spanish Colonial Philippines, considered the impact of Spanish colonization on indigenous economies. Methods included analyses of spatial autocorrelation of sherd distributions from the 13th century through the 20th century.
-Principal Investigator
GIS Maps Librarian Projects