Caldera is an Oregon-based nonprofit that provides mentoring to students through arts and environmental programming. Its staff works with youth year-round for seven years, starting in middle school and continuing through high school graduation. The White House recently recognized Caldera as one of only twelve nonprofits to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program (NAHYP) Award. As the organization celebrates its 20-year anniversary, its stakeholders have become critically aware of the need for an organized, centralized digital image repository to serve as an archive of organizational history and enable discovery to promote future work. Currently, its digital images exist across upwards of ten poorly organized hard drives. For my Capstone project, I have assessed Caldera’s collection and available technology and developed a long-term project plan for establishing a repository. This plan includes recommendations on ingest, preservation, and discovery.

The future of the country lies in the hands of the children. If the child doesn’t get the right start, he is 60% more likely to never go to college and 70% more likely to be arrested for a violent crime. However, good quality of early learning education can change these statistics. The Childcare Quality & Early Learning Center for Research and Professional Development (CQEL) is the University of Washington’s effort to measure and improve the quality of early learning environments for children. CQEL is responsible for conducting, onsite evaluations of child care providers located throughout the state. The process of rating early education sites was being executed using a complex and cumbersome Excel spreadsheet until Data Wanderers pitched in. The team transformed the IRC Database solution from Excel to a robust SQL relational database thereby catering the problem of data security, data losses, multi-user access and facilitates standard and adhoc reports to analyze the performance of various sites.

The Bancroft Library on the University of California, Berkeley campus is one of the most heavily used repositories of Western Americana in the United States. Our project makes thousands of manuscript items and printed materials relating to Indigenous communities of present-day California more approachable, searchable, and accessible. With assistance and feedback from members of Indigenous communities in California and subject specialists, we have created a cohesive, detailed guide listing individual titles of items with links to their related collections, catalog records, and finding aids. Our records are organized by language family, and again by four categories we created: Lifeways (physical culture), Worldview (relationships, geographic location, and activism), Mythology & Storytelling (narrative representations), Language (linguistic materials), and General (all material not appropriate for other groupings). We hope our project assists in the preservation and revitalization of traditional culture and language through increased knowledge, respect and understanding of our California communities.

The Museum of Flight receives a huge amount of research requests from its patrons/customers. The requests are collected through paper forms, stored in editable PDF’s and processed in Excel for reference and tracking purposes. Due to inefficient processing and primitive technology, the resource usage is high and redundant. They strive for a robust information management system which is intuitive to use, can be accessed from multiple locations and stores data centrally. The Data Flight capstone team assessed the requirements and designed a database management system for the museum of flight. The new system is built on cutting edge technology, incorporating important features like central storage, multiple session access to update data in real time, and multivariable reporting. As a prospective patron/customer of the museum, your requests will be processed much faster. The solutions takes paper forms out of the equation and contributes towards a clean and greener environment.

Starbucks’ information security team is continually seeking to understand which of its security events to prioritize for response. Although the organization utilizes a security information and event management tool for detecting anomalous activity, the number of alerts being generated by the tool are overwhelming and difficult to manage. This is an issue that security teams at many large organizations face; how do you sift through the noise and find the events that are most likely indicative of a security threat or breach? IntelligentIR helps answer this question through the use of machine learning techniques. Using unsupervised learning to label raw security data along with supervised learning to build decision models, intellingentIR identifies and prioritizes new security alerts in order to make incident response more manageable.

Willows Preparatory School (WPS) is a private institution affiliated with Bellevue Children’s Academy in Redmond, Washington. While the elementary school was established in 2000, WPS is only in its second year, therefore, the library is relatively small and consists largely of donated resources. Despite the small size, the new librarian has created an excellent base of resources in nonfiction and a good selection of new and popular books. As an International Baccalaureate (IB) candidate school, with a diverse student population, WPS is looking to add more international and multicultural resources that will both interest the students in their personal reading, support the school’s curriculum, and meet IB standards. With this in mind, my goal was to cultivate high quality international and multicultural resources that the librarian can immediately add to her emerging library.

Investigating the Status of Anime Collections in Public Libraries As anime grows in popularity, so grows demand for access. Anime conventions, such as Seattle’s SakuraCon, bring together fans to celebrate, discuss, and watch anime; and websites such as Crunchyroll provide legal access online. Public access through libraries is also important, particularly to people who cannot attend conventions or pay for streaming services, and to provide this access it is necessary to determine how metadata systems created for print media can be redesigned to accommodate the increasingly visual and mobile nature of global information. Specifically, what are the challenges and needs of developing, cataloging, organizing, and providing access to anime collections in public libraries? This project’s analysis of a survey sent to 248 American public libraries identifies areas where access to anime can be improved. By highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the current systems, this project lays the foundation for future work to create better metadata systems for anime. Thomas Disher—Residential MLIS

What about officiated sports makes them all the same? What makes them different? Perhaps the rulebooks used to govern them can tell. Regulated sports offer controlled environments in which participants operate for fame, fortune, self-improvement, camaraderie, and other reasons. Rulebooks not only shape these environments, but also regulate behavior within them. With society as the oyster and our human passions as grains of sand, how do the official rules of sports help culture our pearls? I took a whack, a shot, a leap into modeling sports, from the perspective of the humble sports rulebook. In my research, I explore why and how to go about deriving a genre-based model of sports. I also identify possible applications of this model serving diverse audiences including scholars, policy analysts, and athletes. Rulebooks have long been used to organize knowledge on sports – what’s needed now is a better way to extract this knowledge.

Currently teachers use tedious methods of note-taking such as paper journals, post-its, general note-taking apps and even memory. With elementary school class sizes increasing as well as the emphasis of individualization, keeping track of every student becomes a significant challenge. To face this challenge, we proposed to build a cloud-based web-application that allows elementary school teachers to quickly take notes on students while also providing skill-tracking and rubric management. The goal of Jot is to provide teachers a note-taking experience that allows them to track various aspects of an individual student. Our application aims to make an impact by ensuring that there are notes taken on each and every student leaving no one behind. By helping organize student notes, skills and creating reminders, we know that Jot will help teachers better guide the future of our children.