Browsing by Author "Spotts, Lydia"

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    Data Curation for Community Science Project: CHIME Pilot Study
    (Digital Curation Centre, 2018-04-25) Yoon, Ayoung; Spotts, Lydia; Copeland, Andrea; Library and Information Science, School of Informatics
    This paper introduces a community science project, Citizen Data Harvest in Motion Everywhere (CHIME), and the findings from our pilot study, which investigated potential concerns regarding data curation. The CHIME project aims to build a cyclist community–driven data archive that citizens, community scientists, and governments can use and reuse. While citizens’ involvement in the project enables data collection on a massive, unprecedented scale, the citizen-generated data (cyclists’ video data recorded with wearable cameras in the CHIME context) also presents several concerns regarding curation due to the grassroots nature of the data. Learning from our examination of cyclists’ video data and interviews with them, we will discuss the curation concerns and challenges we identified in our pilot study and introduce our approach to addressing these issues. Our study will provide insights into data curation concerns, to which other citizen science projects can refer. As a next step, we are in the process of developing a data curation model that will consider other factors related to this community science project and can be implemented in future community science projects.
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    Issues with archiving community data
    (Facet Publishing, 2017) Spotts, Lydia; Copeland, Andrea J.
    Transportation in Indianapolis is evolving. The bicycle, two-wheeled agitator of a similar transportation revolution across the United States in the 1890s, is back. The city landscape, overwhelmingly distinguished by auto-centric design, is increasingly being reshaped to support cycling as the economic impact of these alterations changes perceptions and the cycling movement gains momentum. How to document the impact of an urban landscape in flux from the perspective of a loosely codified community centered on cycling is a considerable challenge worthy of consideration by archivists and information professionals in general.
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    Learning through virtual reality: Virtual Bethel case study
    (2018) Copeland, Andrea; Wood, Zebulun; Spotts, Lydia; Yoon, Ayoung; Library and Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing
    Focusing on the challenges of teaching virtual reality creation and preservation, our paper will present a case study involving the virtual recreation of the Bethel AME Church sanctuary. We were particularly interested in students’ skills, the technology, and costs associated with teaching and learning virtual reality, and how these factors influence overall student learning experiences. Two courses are explored: 3D Production and Digital Preservation. We have learned that teaching and learning in this space is technology and skill intensive. By assessing the skills and technology needed as well as the costs and student experiences, we are better able to communicate the needs of these projects to potential funders and collaborators. We’ve determined that without external funding, we are currently at capacity and will need funding for additional collaborative projects. The level of technical ability of the students influenced their level of satisfaction as well as their capacity to learn.