What can we learn from collaborative data?
CI-BER launched in 2011 as a cooperative research agreement between NARA (National Archives and Records Administration), NSF (National Science Foundation), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to build a master copy of billions of federal electronic records and visualize that data in different ways. In fall 2012, CI-BER expanded to include new partners from Duke University, UNC-Asheville, and the City of Asheville, creating a collaborative team that represents computer science, political science, the humanities, engineering, information and library science, three universities, the town of Asheville, and community leaders with a pressing need for big data.
This collection gathers reporting on the multiple facets of this collaboration, not only sharing research results from our experiments and developments, but documenting the practice of collaborating across a complex mix of disciplines, organizations, and institutions. One of our CI-BER goals is to make it possible for users to crowdsource geospatial metadata without changing the underlying record. We are currently developing our plan for citizen-led crowdsourcing that will create access and opportunities for collaboratively contributed content around historically and socially-significant heterogeneous datasets rooted in urban renewal housing records of the Southside neighborhood in Asheville, NC, a historically African-American community.
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News / Social & Political Issues
The Human Face of Crowdsourcing: A Citizen-led Crowdsourcing Case Study
In October of 2013, Dr. Richard Marciano presented on CI-BER's behalf at IEEE BigData 2013: Workshop on Big Humanities. We've linked to the paper and slides below, and have pasted the abstract here:
News
Making Data Matter - Bass Connections project at Duke University
The Making Data Matter project is part of the Information, Society & Culture theme of Bass Connections at Duke University
Bass Connections
News / Social & Political Issues
Project seeks to recreate history of Asheville's Southside
Project seeks to recreate history of Asheville's Southside
A Resident And A Mapmaker Re-Create The Sometimes Painful History And Stories Of Asheville's Lost Southside Neighborhood
By Rob Neufield
You wish you had a photo of this: Several dozen African-American families, forced to leave their homes in Southside, carrying their belongings to the apartments that the city built for them on Erskine Street with urban renewal money.
News / Social & Political Issues
Presentation about Big Board
These slides about the Big Board environment were presented on Monday, July 8 by Richard Marciano, Professor of Library and Information Science at UNC and Director of Sustainable Archives & Leveraging Technologies group (SALT), and Jeff Heard, Senior Research Software Developer at RENCI, at the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE). Big Board is the mapping visualization tool being utilized in the CI-BER project.
Blog Post / Humanities, Arts & Media
Big Data Meets Collaboration by Difference: HASTAC Goes CIBER
HASTAC to present Wednesdays at the Center: What can we learn about ourselves from data?
News / Humanities, Arts & Media
Wednesdays at the Center- What Can We Learn About Ourselves From Data? Video
Sheryl Grant, Director of Social Networking, HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition and Doctoral Candidate at the School of Information and Library Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spoke about the CI-BER project at the Franklin Humanities Institute's "Wednesdays at the Center" event on April 17. Her talk was titled "What Can We Learn About Ourselves From Data?" Below is a link to the video of the talk, which is available for free on iTunes.
Blog Post / Social & Political Issues
A Citizen-Led Crowdsourcing Roadmap for the CI-BER “Big Data” Project
Blog Post / Social & Political Issues
Making Data Matter - Big Data: Tools, Ethics and Social Change
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Housing Authority of the City of Asheville Records
In late 2007, the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections & University Archives University of North Carolina - Asheville aquired Housing Authority records from the City of Asheville. The following is a description of the collection:
News / Social & Political Issues
Community Corner – December 2012 on Urban News
This is an article by Priscilla Ndiaye, Chair of the Southside Advocacy Community Advisory Board, about the changes happening in Asheville's communities. It was published in Urban News on December 14, 2012. Her article is a call for community members to be involved in the changes happening in the Rivers Arts District in Asheville. Ms. Ndiaye says,
Blog Post / Technology, Networks & Sciences
How to think and talk like a collaborative data scientist
Blog Post / Social & Political Issues
Data Does Not Invade People's Lives (Lack of Control Does): Then and Now
News / Social & Political Issues
The State of Black Asheville
This article, "The State of Black Asheville", was published on Urban News on October 12, 2011.
"Members of the Asheville community assembled in Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church to hear some long-awaited news regarding the statistics released by the Census Bureau. Drs. Dwight and Dollie Mullen, both political science professors at UNC Asheville, gave a detailed account of the statistical information and about rising poverty rate in our community. The news was anticipated, although not unexpected.
News / Humanities, Arts & Media
"Twilight of a Neighborhood" in Crossroads
The Summer-Fall 2010 issue of Crossroads: A Publication fo the North Carolina Humanities Council featured "Twlight of the Neighborhood."
News / Technology, Networks & Sciences
CI-BER Blogspot page
CyberInfrastructure for Billions of Electronic Records Blogspot site
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Richard Marciano leads the CI-BER project at UNC. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa and a Postdoc in Computational Geography. He is a Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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