iSchool Capstone

2017

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Beverly Pepper Studio Archive: Arrangement, Collections Management and Access

In her 60+ year career creating monumental public sculpture, American artist Beverly Pepper has generated thousands of production documents, negatives, photographs, films, videos, ephemera, catalogs and books. At 94, she is still making art but her studio in Todi, Italy lacks a digital collections management system to assist with cataloging and access. After assessing her studio collection, creating controlled vocabularies and test installing the CollectiveAccess CMS, this project presents the The Beverly Pepper Foundation with software evaluations, budgets and and metadata guidelines to begin the much needed and long overdue process of arranging the studio archive.
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BlockBusters: Combining the Dark Web and Bitcoin

The Dark Web and Bitcoin are both digital systems that the average person has little understanding of. Yet both of these platforms have very real impacts on the world and can affect people without their knowledge. The Dark Web is a new digital black market that uses Bitcoin as its primary currency. Both of these are considered anonymous, yet they can be combined. Similar features could then be used, matching Bitcoin and Dark web users. Our team cleaned and parsed the two data sets, combining them in one location and exploring the information they contain to start the deanonymization process.
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Bloom

Trauma isn't linear. For trauma survivors, processing and organizing memories can be difficult. Sharing them even more so. Yet it can be deeply therapeutic. Bloom is a storytelling platform for trauma survivors. Bloom empowers users to create anonymous accounts, build stories through text and images that can be easily rearranged, and see stories from other survivors. By providing a safe place for survivors to share their experiences, we hope to help with the healing process. We collaborated with API Chaya, a Seattle nonprofit that serves survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.
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Book Lust: Readers’ Advisory Toolkit

We created a toolkit based on Nancy Pearl’s four doorways approach to Readers’ Advisory, that may be used by any public library interested in creating or enhancing their RA program. Pearl’s approach is based on her own unique understanding of what appeals to readers, which helps library staff and patrons discover a wider array of books to select from. The Book Lust Readers’ Advisory Toolkit includes staff training, display materials, programming, a social media plan, and host website. All elements were implemented at the Kitsap Regional Library system and the Coeur d'Alene Public Library.
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Boosting University-Industry Collaboration

IN-PART is a startup established in the UK. The company provides collaborative opportunities for universities and industries to commercialize innovative technologies at an early stage. The growth of the company calls for a more efficient match of technology with industrial interests, as well as an automated visualization platform. Our capstone project is rooted in such needs from IN-PART. We analyzed user interaction data collected from its website to implement a recommendation system and created a visualization interface to provide universities with industry feedback and quantify commercial interest in their technologies.
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BrandInk

Social media has drastically changed the way that business communicate with customers. Leveraging social media is especially important for small businesses with limited time and financial resources. BrandInk is a platform that allows businesses to understand their online posts from the customer perspective, before posting. By fine tuning content before publishing, businesses are able to achieve optimal results with social media marketing. BrandInk also makes managing different marketing channels easy, and allows the user to publish across multiple social channels. It also offers a powerful API, allowed for the service to be integrated into other platforms.
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Build-A-Resume

In today’s competitive job market, your resume can’t just be good, it has to be exceptional. Build-A-Resume creates custom resumes catered to your dream job to provide the ultimate competitive edge. Build your profile, provide us your desired job posting, and let us do the rest! Within seconds your fully catered and customized resume will be ready for recruiters to approve for an interview. Let us ease your job search stress by giving you a resume that best showcases your value and gets you noticed by all recruiters in a blink of an eye.
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Building a Graphic Novel/Comic/Manga Collection for the Wasilla Public Library

In September 2016 the Wasilla Public Library moved into a new building with dedicated space for graphic novels, comics, and manga. However, the library had no clear goals for how they would develop the collection. This project was designed to create those goals by surveying library users, reviewing current literature on the medium, and developing policies and practices to suit the library's needs. In addition, over 200 titles were suggested for purchase to help build the library's collection.
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But, Why? Change and Content Management with SharePoint

Working collaboratively with Records Management Services (RMS) for UW Medicine, we created documents to aid RMS in their SharePoint 2013 adoption and migration initiative. In creating a workflow diagram, resource packet for new clients, and a variety of checklists, we have helped RMS define a streamlined course of action in their content management project. The key to success with any content management project is adoption. We designed compelling and useful resources for clients that will contribute to better adoption rates.
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CAPTURING CHANGE: The Arthur Churchill Warner Photograph Collection

The A.C. Warner Collection was partially processed during the creation of a digital image database. However, because of the project’s limited scope, several aspects of archival collection processing remained incomplete over a decade later. For our project, we collocated duplicate photographs, removed photos outside of the collection’s scope, and incorporated relevant items that had yet to be inventoried. We rehoused materials in archival folders and sleeves, and developed a new organization scheme. Finally, we created a new finding aid using the EAD standard. The result is a better organized collection, paired with an improved finding aid for patron use.