SLIS Research Groups and Publications

Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (CSI)

Our goal is to serve as a repository for activities, people, and opportunities related to the field of Social Informatics.

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

Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center

The Center will design a socio-technical infrastructure for the analysis, modeling and visualization of social, behavioral, biomedical, and other networks. The cyberinfrastructure will facilitate network science research and education by providing an efficient means to share data and code, to replicate results, to compare algorithms, to disseminate new algorithms, to communicate findings, and to find complementary expertise.
Multidisciplinary Research Center approved by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST)

"ARIST is the annual publication of the American Society for Information Science. It surveys the landscape of information science and technology, providing the reader with an analytical, authoritative and accessible overview of recent trends and significant developments. One volume is published each year. The range of topics varies considerably, reflecting the dynamism of the discipline and the diversity of theoretical and applied perspectives connoted by the rubric information science and technology." Dean Blaise Cronin is the editor."

Cyberinfrastructure Shell

The Cyberinfrastructure Shell (CIShell) is an open source, community-driven platform for the integration and utilization of datasets, algorithms, tools, and computing resources. Algorithm integration support is built in for Java and most other programming languages. Being Java based, it will run on almost all platforms.

Collaborative Information Universe (iUni)

The iUni project is an exciting collaboration between the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and University Information Technology Services (UITS), primarily involving the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL). Initiated in Summer 2001, the project's goal is to provide a 3D web-based collaboration mechanism for all Indiana University (IU) faculty, staff and students on any of the eight IU campuses, located throughout the state of Indiana. Representatives from both SLIS and the AVL chose Activeworlds.com's Universe software for the initial solution because of its unique functionality and the already existing userbase among IU faculty and students as well as the Internet community.

Digital Library Program

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.

Information Visualization Cyberinfrastructure

The Information Visualization Cyberinfrastructure provides access to a comprehehsive set of software packages easing the exploration, modification, comparison, and extension of data mining and information visualization algorithms. Diverse software packages were bundled into learning modules. Access to a large-scale data repository, extensive compute resources, and a growing set of references are provided as well. It is our hope that the community will adopt this resource to foster Information Visualization education and research.

Network Workbench

Network Workbench: A Large-Scale Network Analysis, Modeling and Visualization Toolkit for Biomedical, Social Science and Physics Research that will design, evaluate, and operate a unique distributed, shared resources environment for large-scale network analysis, modeling, and visualization, named Network Workbench (NWB). The envisioned data-code-computing resources environment will provide a one-stop online portal for researchers, educators, and practitioners interested in the study of biomedical, social and behavioral science, physics, and other networks.

Web Information Discovery Integrated Tool Laboratory

WIDIT research explores a fusion approach to information retrieval and knowledge discovery. We believe that to facilitate understanding of information as well as its discovery, we need to combine the capabilities of both the human and the machine as well as multiple methods and sources of evidence. Currently, we are engaged in projects that investigate the integration of information retrieval and knowledge organization approaches (CSKD), the application of Semantic Web strategies in digital library construction (JiTTDL), the combination of data and method fusion to enhance government information discovery on the Web (DGov), the development of an interactive and adaptive agent that will harvest, organize, and maintain a personalized collection of electronic and/or digital resources (VCoB), and the examination of information retrieval strategies that can accommodate a variety of data environments and search tasks (TREC).