iSchool Capstone

Nantucket Biodiversity Digital Repository

Project tags:

content & digital asset management

data curation

information architecture

Project poster

Since 2005, Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative has sponsored over 70 different research projects, but the reports and datasets from these projects are not easily available. We have designed a workflow to curate, label, and upload files to a searchable digital repository, and have built a documentation website to house the workflow and process documents. This supports NBI in becoming an open science leader among small science nonprofits, streamlines NBI grant reporting, ensures that researcher reports and data can be cited, and opens the possibility of research funded by NBI contributing to larger scientific studies and new knowledge creation.

Project participants:

Andrew Mckenna-Foster

MLIS

Meghan Mitchell

MLIS

Christopher Tillman Neal

MLIS