doctoral student
Welcome!
My name is Jewel Ward and I am a PhD. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the School of Information and Library Science. My advisor is Dr. Helen Tibbo. I am a Research Assistant at the H.W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, where I work with NC-DICE on one small part of the NARA TPAP.
Research Interests
An analyst by nature, my interest areas include (in no particular order) information+web design, system and information processes, data+metadata transfer systems and structures (including preservation data grids), networked information, the OAI-PMH, digital preservation, project and people management, the effects of technology on people, mark-up languages, and digital libraries.
Current Projects
NARA Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype
Case Study of the DRAMBORA Tool
Past Projects
Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories
"A Quantitative Analysis of Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) Usage in Data Providers Registered with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)" (Master's Paper)