doctoral student
Welcome!
My name is Jewel Ward and I am a third-year 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 research interests are in the transfer, management, preservation, and curation of data and information. I am particularly interested in data transfer protocols such as the OAI-PMH and preservation data grids using iRODS. I am currently in the process of preparing for my Comps.
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)