Patrons, staff, and researchers at The Seattle Public Library have difficulty finding Seattle Grunge music items in the library’s collection. The catalog keyword search, “Seattle grunge”, only produces 24 items. We amassed a Seattle Grunge Collection of both cataloged and uncatalogued materials to ensure that everyone can easily discover and access the library’s current and future holdings of music, movies, books, articles, local zines, posters, fan club newsletters, and other ephemera. We not only provided easy search and access of this collection, we also created a model that can be replicated to develop and preserve other local Seattle music collections.

Consumers are buying IoT devices without understanding their security and privacy implications. Traditional mainstream reviews only showcase device features. Consumers remain uninformed about security, but The Smart Guide hopes to change this. Our solution is a buyer’s guide for smart home devices. It helps consumers make an informed decision based on feature, price, and most importantly security. By factoring in cybersecurity in the rating of a product we hope to drive consumers to purchase safer smart home devices in a smarter way.

Thomas Handforth was an artist, author, and winner of the 1939 Caldecott Medal. After his death, the Tacoma Public Library agreed to archive over 900 pieces of his artwork. The main objective of this capstone was to organize, digitize, and catalog the most fragile and friable pieces in the collection for online accessibility to the public. I scanned and photographed, created metadata, and integrated the digital files of his art into the library’s online catalog. For too long Thomas Handforth has been unknown. By creating this catalog, users will be able to learn more about this incredible artist.

Women with autism face significant employment challenges due to being women and being with autism. We know very little in the way of research about their experiences. In the "Untold Story" we analyze 40 threads in the Career and Employment Category from the Reddit discussion group 'AsperGirls'. We use Annabi and Lebovitz (2018) Organizational Interventions Mitigating Individual Barriers Framework (OIMIB) to depict the barriers women with autism experience, the individual methods they use to mitigate the barriers, and the role organizational interventions play in mitigating these barriers. Our analysis reveals their stories and the unique challenges and opportunities they experience.

Captain David Wilsey, M.D., was one of 27 doctors who entered Dachau concentration camp during its liberation in April 1945. They spent the next month giving medical care to former prisoners. The liberated prisoners were quarantined to prevent the spread of disease. These physicians risked their lives to bring healing to the 30,000 survivors. During his deployment, Wilsey wrote more than 280 letters home. This collection brings these materials together online for the first time. It involved metadata creation, digital curation, community engagement, and educational resource creation. The collection will be housed online permanently for the Holocaust Center for Humanity.

The DCC Curation Lifecycle model is a conceptual model created in 2009 to facilitate curation and preservation activities. Since its initial creation, the context of data (e.g. the emergence of Big Data) has changed dramatically. In this project, I studied the needs and possible fields for updating this model through a close examination of literature about the original model, relevant research and data lifecycle models, and interview materials. Based on the implications of the four most relevant lifecycle models studied, recommendations on the transformation of model structure and content are made.

In small, mid-sized clinics, inventory management is a chore that takes valuable resources away from more important tasks. Our project aims to streamline this task in the healthcare space by making it more accessible and updatable. By creating a reactive web app, we intend to make item logging and status almost instantly accessible through each users personal device. This makes it easy for the entire medical staff to locate, refill, and reorder essential medical supplies. By diversifying the accessibility to item inventory and locations, we hope to improve the flow of daily operations within the medical space.

Millennials have the lowest voter turnout, despite being the 2nd largest generation of voters. Having identified that millennials are largely unsatisfied with their knowledge in local politics, our project addresses bottlenecks in the political education pipeline. We aim to alleviate voting friction for young adults by providing sharable, eye-catching content, that passively informs viewers on relevant political issues. TL;DR is an automated platform that generates succinct, engaging videos from user input. Government officials can input state initiative information, and create videos that display the given data in an engaging, informative manner, that can easily be distributed on social media.

SightLife’s mission is to end corneal blindness by 2040. Millions of people around the world currently struggle to live with corneal blindness. It's a treatable condition with a clear solution: a corneal transplant. Our project is to design a system to simplify data entry and analysis for SightLife and their 32 partners so SightLife can better assist the partners in making decisions regarding cornea donations and cornea transplants. We are harnessing the power of a cloud based solution, using Azure to host our database, and PowerBI to ultimately improve data entry efficiency and allowing users to have flexible data analytics.

The current methodologies of planning travel are time-consuming, inefficient, and uninspired. To address this issue, our team created a unique web platform that fosters a community of travelers who are able to discover, plan, and share their perfect trip itineraries: Travelroo. Travelroo alleviates the pain points of travel, which will lead to memorable travel experiences and travel inspiration for our users. With the guidance and resources from the iSchool program, our team was able to produce a unique and much-needed trip planning solution in the crowded travel industry.