Our project address the problem of the communication of material from scientists to the general public about information that impacts their lives. Working with Grey Matters, a neuroscience journal, our solution is the development of an phone application that hosts informational content about neuroscience, and a dashboard to easily upload content to the app. With this application and dashboard, information about neuroscience will be accessible to a wider audience and increase the knowledge and understanding of the field to the general public. It will also extend the reach and influence of scientists through the content Grey Matters produces.

The Patricia Young Collection (PYC) contains over 10,600 35mm slides that visually document more than one hundred different architectural and archaeological sites from seventeen different countries in East and Southeast Asia. This slide collection will be uploaded to the School of Art + Art History + Design’s in-house MDID digital image database and then entered as compound object records into the University of Washington Library’s Digital Collections repository. The goal of this Capstone project is for the collection to reach a wider audience at the University of Washington and, by extension, researchers worldwide.

The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a nonprofit consortium of 39 universities throughout the Pacific Northwest. They advance learning and research by combining the physical and digital library resources of their member universities to serve over 275,000 students. For my capstone, I constructed and conducted a series of tests designed to evaluate the Alliance’s catalog user interface and the information architecture through which they organize digital and physical materials. The results of these usability tests, card sorting activities, and interviews will help the Alliance to continue to promote academic success and better research.

The Wing Luke Museum's collection of Asian and Pacific Islander oral histories encompasses over 900 interviews. Users can request digital transcripts, but audio recordings can only be accessed in-person at the Wing. For this Oral History Project, we have curated nearly 200 interviews highlighting Seattle’s Chinatown-International District and its various communities; Relevant PDF transcripts and MP3 audio files are now available online through an Oral History website. Not only is this website beneficial for local users, but it is also a tangible tool for the Wing to reach users worldwide who are interested in the Wing’s Oral History Program.

This project set out to create a linked dataset using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model, describing Historical Children’s Literature volumes from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. The dataset describes both physical items and digital surrogates accessible via UW’s CONTENTdm digital collections platform, including many volumes digitized by a 2017 MLIS capstone group. The publishing of bibliographic datasets using the RDF model has the potential to bring greater exposure to library collections as this structured data can be queried across institutional and subject-area boundaries to connect users to content in new ways.

The Martyn Mallory Historical Photograph collection is the legacy of Martyn Mallory (1880-1936), consisting of 2,500 positives and 1,500 glass plate negatives, depicting early 20th-Century life & topography in Idaho. It was entrusted to the Hailey Public Library in 1995 and digitized through grant funding in 2008. Our Capstone entailed migrating the digital collection of 1,717 files into the LYNX Consortium repository, crafting a controlled vocabulary at LCSH standard to describe the collection, & implementing a metadata schema using the Dublin Core standard. Bringing the collection to library standard increased its value, usability, & increased access to this historical treasure.

Local scene, global stage.

There are many applications that use file transfer and storage internally. In some cases, like that of medical file transfer, we are constrained by security requirements and regulations such that there is zero tolerance for security vulnerabilities both from a technological point of view and social point of view. Our solution is to enable people to leverage the blockchain for secure file transfer. SentIO is an API that abstracts the blockchain details away such that the implementation of our secure file storage and transfer system is simple and accessible to any client-side application.

The online video archive at Slavic Christian Center church is neither easily browsable nor searchable. By utilizing Google Sheets and a freemium AwesomeTable tool, it is possible to transform the look and feel of the digital archive into a beautiful and easy to navigate table. This cost efficient and low maintenance method is expected to greatly increase the number of video views and user satisfaction. Anyone who visits the church’s archive will be able to easily sort and filter the content by desired categories. It solves the problem of organization of content and searching (filtering) – crucial to large collections.