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Small size projects perfect for Masters Papers or Journal Articles

Project Description Skills
Info Seeking Behavior Code and Analyze open ended survey comments from National survey on information seeking behavior at universities no specific skills required
Mobile Search Examine how people search for information on mobile devices (iPhones) no specific skills required
Digital Scholarship Interview, study how academics on UNC campus use electronic materials and communcations for scholarship no specific skills required
Analysis of Search Logs Programmaticallly examine library catalog search logs to uncover user information searching behavior no specific skills required
Honesty in Sports Examine how sports programs report their wins when they have been taken away due to violations. For instance UNC recognizing themselves as 2012 Coastal Division Champions in ACC football.
Annotations Review annonations made on corpus of scholarly articles read in review class, to study frequency, placement, type. no specific skills required
Annotations Test user interfaces for shared review system (Adobe Acrobat) to determine most effective ways to present articles that have 10, 100, and 1000 attached annotation/reviews some programming and web interface experience helpful
UNC Building History Build digital library that communicates the history of each building (pictures and narrative) on the UNC campus. Design content for both web based delivery, and for mobile device based delivery (i.e. for browsing as one walks around campus). some programming and web interface experience helpful
Ackland Art Museum Exhibit on the Web Take existing Ackland Art Museum exhibit that has already been digitized and build web-based interface to it, so we can study the use of it on the web, including social interactions, and directing people to related content. some programming and web interface experience helpful