SLIS Research Groups, Projects, and Publications

CROMI seeks to advance integrated research and development activities in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. The term "computer" in this phrase currently encompasses a wide array of artifacts, devices, and machines permeate contemporary life. Our goal is to understand technologically mediated interactions among individuals, organizations, and communities, and to contribute to the development of sustainable, equitable, and efficient socio-technical arrangements that would support people in their daily activities. Our work is research-driven and application-oriented with an explicit intent for socio-technical intervention. We find these challenging but worthwhile objectives because of the increasing complexity and sophistication of computer technologies, their ubiquitous presence in people's daily life, and their often transparent and invisible character.

The Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center was founded in October 2005. The Center's mission is to advance the data-tool-computing infrastructure for the study of biomedical, social and behavioral science, physics, and other networks. A specific focus is research on the structure and evolution of science and technology (S&T) and the communication of results via science maps (see Mapping Science exhibit).

The Center co-organizes international workshops and conferences, promotes network science and visualization at NSF workshops and NIH meetings/roadmap initiatives, organizes and finances a weekly talk series on Networks and Complex Systems and annual Open Houses, hosts about 20 national and international visitors/faculty each year, and teaches regular workshops on infrastructures and tools it develops and serves.

The Center hosts and serves powerful computing resources (five multi-core servers, 100 TB of disk space, and backup devices), and it designs and serves infrastructures such as the Scholarly Database, the Network Workbench, the Epidemics Cyberinfrastructure , and Sci2 (Science of Science) Too.
• Multidisciplinary Research Center approved by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research

The Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP) is dedicated to the production, maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a wide range of high-quality networked resources for scholars and students at Indiana University and elsewhere.

Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and study that examines social aspects of computerization, including the roles of information technology in social and organizational change, the uses of information technologies in social contexts, and the ways that the social organization of information technologies is influenced by social forces and social practices.
• Multidisciplinary Research Center approved by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research

In a wide range of areas, including digital libraries, knowledge management, data mining, social media, electronic commerce, and Web services, Semantic Web technologies are becoming ever more important for the sharing of data and metadata and for the management of knowledge. As such, the Semantic Web Lab (SWL) works to develop better methods to model, share, link and integrate data and information to enhance knowledge discovery and dissemination.