iSchool Research Day

March 15, 2024

Hosted at the beautiful Green College, this was the return of Research Day after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. iSchool students and faculty participated presentations, demonstrations, and a poster session.

Musqueam Elder Larry Grant started the event off with a welcome and land acknowledgement. The iSchool First Nations Curriculum Concentration (FNCC) also hosted talks and discussions for students, community members, and information professionals working with Indigenous groups.

PhD student Trinh Nguyen presents on information governance in decentralized ecosystems.

Shirin Alamdari (left) and Nilou Davoudi (right).

PhD student Yifan Liu, "Designing the Presentation of Hyperlinks to Reduce Overload in Online Health Information."

Dr. Eric Meyers talks to two students about his demonstration, "Amo's Sapotawan and the Design of Culturally-Responsive Narrative Media."

Dr. Tess Prendergast (left) and Linnet Chappelka (right) discuss Linnet's poster.

Dharani Persaud (left) and Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer giving their presentation on "Troubling the Violence of the Colonial Archive: Colonial Recordkeeping and Community Memory in the Caribbean."

PhD student Kristin Kozar presenting on First Nations Data Sovereignty.

Jiayue Zhao, presenting on "Behind the Keywords: A Research Design on the Generation of Author-Supplied Keywords in Asian Humanities Publications."

Keynote Presentation

• Research Access and Engagement: Reflections from the Supporting Transparent and Open Research Engagement and Exchange (STOREE) Project, Dr. Heather O'Brien (University of British Columbia)

Presentations

• Exploring Information Governance in Decentralized Ecosystems, Trinh Nguyen-Pham
• Audiovisual Archives Metadata Enrichment, Peter Sullivan
• For a Dying Planet: At the Nexus of Climate Activism and Surveillance Technologies, Kim Correa
• Networks of Trade: Actor-Network Theory as a Tool for Understanding Markets for Cultural Heritage Objects, Alvionne Karpinski
• Designing the Presentation of Hyperlinks to Reduce Overload in Online Health Information, Yifan Liu
• Troubling the Violence of the Colonial Archive: Colonial Recordkeeping and Community Memory in the Carribean, Dharani Persaud and Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer
• First Nations Data Sovereignty: Aspirations, Broken Promises, Rigid Colonial Systems, and Making Paths Forward, Kristin Kozar
• Beyond the "Single Story": Developing a Critical Analysis Framework for Picture Books about Refugee Experiences, Dr. Tess Prendergast
• Behind the Keywords: A Research Design on the Generation of Author-Supplied Keywords in Asian Humanities Publications, Jiayue Zhao
• You Want to Become an Archivist: The Role of Clashing Imaginaries in the Professionalization of Archives, Ted Lee
• Considering Context: An Analysis of Fan-Tags Across Fanon-Centered Works, Melissa Nelson
• Changing the World, a Name at a Time: A Retrospective on the Trans & Queer Metadata Collectives and the Name Change Policy Working Group, B. M. Watson
• When Clinicians Misinform: A Preliminary Review of Medical Misinformation, Lay Information Behaviours, and the Effects of Unreliable Information on Gender Affirming Care, Maria Mulder
• Crafting Connections: Art Kits as a Form for Processing Experiences and Ideas in Library and Information Studies, Andrea Kampen

Demonstrations

• Amo's Sapotawan and the Design of Culturally-Responsive Narrative Media, Dr. Eric Meyers
• Enhance Your Metadata Skills on Wikidata Using Your Specialized Knowledge, Quinn Monleon

Posters

• Guardians of Trust: Innovating Against Records Fraud in Public Procurement, Danielle Alves Batista
• Children, Tributes, Mutts: Reading Trauma in Fan Art of The Hunger Games, Chloe Bond
• Fair Winds and Following Seas: Digital Floating Homelands as Community Resilience to the Climate Crisis, Linnet Chappelka
• Designing Recordkeeping Systems for Transitional Justice and Peace: Results of a Survey of 'On the Ground' Experiences and Practices Relating to Organizations Supporting Conflict-Affected Peoples Displaced from their Homes, Lands and Property, Dr. Victoria Lemieux, Amber Gallant, Panthea Pourmalek, Hoda Hamouda, Nicole Johnston, Samantha El-Ghazal, Jon Unruh, Niloufar Vahid-Massoudi
• Manga Literacy for Librarians: Learning how to Read and Appreciate Japanese Comics, Victoria Rahbar and Dr. Eric Meyers
• A Resistance to Excessive Illumination: A Proposal for the Appraisal of Irradiated Records, Kira Razzo
• The Archival Preservation of Independent Music Production, Tristan Triponez
• Mapping Canadian Reproductive Health Information in Interactive Game Space, Bryn Shaffer
• Developing Critical Information Literacy Pedagogies in the Face of Scholarly Misconduct, Dr. Syeda Hina Shahid and Dr. Luanne Sinnamon
• Introducing the Climate Crisis Sensemaking Project, Coco Chen, Rodrigo dos Santos, Alexandra Gaspar, Yifan Liu, Benjamin Mertick, Dr. Lisa Nathan, Dr. Luanne Sinnamon, Amory Strader

March 9, 2018

Keynote Presentation

• Inclusion and diversity by design, lessons learnt from the field, Dr. Nadia Caidi (University of Toronto)

Presentations

• Emotion detection in social media, Hassan Alhuzali and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
• Examining citizen media videos records from the perspective of archival records’ characteristics, elements, and components, Hoda Hamouda
• Exploring the information contexts of young fathers in two British Columbian cities (Master’s thesis), Caroline Mniszak
• Exploring volunteer moderation in a large online community: motivations and challenges of moderating r/AskHistorians, Sarah Gilbert
• Visualizing linked data in UBC Open Collections, Carolina Roman Amigo, Richard Arias-Hernandez and Paul Joseph

Posters

•  “A mouth is not always a mouth, but a bit is always a bit, and it matters little what it bridles:” The relationship between privacy and transparency in digital records, Darra Hofman
• Automatic Detection of Geographically-Defined Language Varieties, Mohamed Elaraby and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
• Blocked and chained: blockchain, radical transparency, and democracy, Darra Hofman and Alamir Novin
• Directions for archival interfaces in virtual reality, Devon Mordell
• Records in the Bitcoin blockchain: characteristics, attributes and relationships, Danielle Alves Batista
• Social Media as a source of natural language processing data, Mohamed Elaraby, Hassan Al-Huzali, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Mohammed Falogah, Hazem Mslati, Easmael Shawees, Seif Wadi and Ibrahim Saker
• Strengthening open access: the power of promotion and tenure, Kayla Hilstob
• Digital Libraries and primary source use in grade 4-12 environments, Erin Fields and Peter Musser
• Tricky optical disillusion: do participants see the controversy within a science visualization?, Sebastian Nothaft, Shahar Yar, Tengfei Wan, Aziz Alimov, Nicholas Kwan, Mykhailo Rudominskyi, Shabnam Raufi, Erin Lee and Alamir Novin
• "Let’s talk about Dearborn:" the Henry Ford Centennial Library, ESL programming, and Dearborn's Arab population, Salma Abumeeiz
• An evidence-based comparison of Endnote, Refworks, Mendeley and Zotero: an analysis of functionality, usability and interfaces linked to the design of an instructional workshop, Melissa Smith and Angela Doyle
• Augmented Reality for library literacy: collaborating for innovative and sustainable instruction, Alexandra Kuskowski and Wendy Traas
• Children’s film as design fiction: ethics, data, and technology in Big Hero 6 and Zootopia, Bonnie Tulloch and Eric M. Meyers
• Evaluating searching as learning in online search tasks, Amelia Cole, Heather O'Brien, Robert Capra and Jaime Arguello
• Identifying degree of highlight consensus through heatmaps, Samuel Dodson
• Image analysis of social data using convolutional neural networks, Caleigh Minshall, Hassan Alhuzali and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
• iWords: exploring the interdisciplinary vocabularies of information research, Andrea Hoff, Michelle Kaczmarek, Saguna Shankar and Bonnie Tulloch
• Prior knowledge and information judgment in web searches: a literature review, Vanessa Figueiredo
• Shades of #MAGA: visualizing “Make America Great Again,” Devon Mordell
• The promise of taking PAIN to practice: information practice inquiry and pervasive, algorithmic, intelligent, networked systems, Michelle Kaczmarek, Saguna Shankar and Lisa Nathan
• A Tudor secretariat’s recordkeeping practices, Dan Farrell
• Aspects of enterprise architecture and records management. a use case for the ontology of functional activities for archival systems, Georg Gaenser
• Democratize big data: systematic review of policies and initiatives addressing social injustices related to big data systems, Elizabeth Moyer
• Metro Vancouver's social media presence in a post-truth world, Lois Evans
• Building an online community of care: Tumblr use by Transgender individuals, Blake Hawkins and Oliver Haimson

Special thank you to:

Student volunteers: Hassan Alhuzali, Karen Barrow, Monique Du Plessis, Lois Evans, Rebecca Fülöp, Amanda Geogroy, Victoria Gomez, Darra Hofman, Michelle Kaczmarek, Michelle Ng, Eleri Staiger, Cheng Zhou

Poster workshop leaders: Lois Evans and Sarah Gilbert

Poster judges: Richard Arias-Hernandez, Julia Bullard, Alissa Cherry, Jennifer Douglas, Erin Fields, Rick Kopak, Shauna Moore, Lisa Nathan, Kathryn Shoemaker

March 10, 2017

Keynote Presentation

• Measuring Well-Being Using Social Media, Dr. Lyle Unger (University of Pennsylvania)

Presentations

• Gossip Saves: Theorizing Affective Information Practices of Community Care, Emily Guerrero
• The Application of Blockchain Technology to Healthcare and Privacy Protection, Darra Hofman
• The Legal Information Needs of Women Who Experience Online Harassment, Victoria James and Jocelyn Mckay
• Predicting Demographic Attributes of Social Media, Jordan Johnson and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
• Once Upon a Meme: Childhood, Children's Literature, and the Internet Meme, Bonnie Tulloch

Posters

• Perpetual Undone-ness: Conjuring the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre Information System into Existence, Elizabeth Shaffer, Sarah King, Allison Mills
• Colophons, Digiphons and Description: New Methods for New Media, Lois Evans
• Resilience and Displacement: Beyond Coping, Michelle Kaczmarek
• Research: Plain and Simple? Exploring the Possibilities of Plain Language Summaries in Knowledge Translation, Hassa Alhuzali, Samuel Dodson, Andrea Hoff, Michelle Kaczmarek, Alina McKay, Robyn Schafer, Saguna Shankar, Angela Towle, Bonnie Tulloch, and Luanne Freund
• Calling on Situated Knowledge: Exploring the Information Practices of Social Workers in Time-Sensitive Situations, Saguna Shankar
• Blockchain Technology for Recordkeeping: Help or Hype?, Darra Hofman, Mark Penney, Steve Thompson, Jessica Tung and Victoria Lemieux
• Legal Issues in Recordkeeping in the Cloud, Darra Hofman and Elissa How
• Analyzing and Detecting Emotion Spam on Twitter, Qian Yang, Ziyao Chen, Yu Zhao, Kyung Eun (Alex) Hur, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
• Trusting Digital Preservation Services: Motives and Means of the Public Sector, Kristina McGuirk
• An Exploratory Analysis of Students' Interactions with the Collaborative Learning Annotation System, Samuel Dodson, Eric Meyers, Ido Roll
• An Archival Revolution: The Formation and Transformation of Archival Science in Modern China (1949-1966), Jing Yan
• Disrupting the System: Decolonizing Digital Collections within Colonial Structures?, Richard Arias-Hernandez, Samuel Mickelson, and Lisa P. Nathan
• Regaining the Rights to Records: Trusted Online Access to Distributed Digital Holdings, Michelle Spelay
• Secondary Trauma and Archivists: A Study into the Need for Services in the Canadian Archival Community, Katie Sloan and Jennifer Vanderfluit
• Of Bedrooms and Brooklyn Limestones: How Archival Ethnography Can Help Us Measure Trust Relationships in Community Archives, Caitlin Lindsay, Samantha Meier and Samuel Mickelson
• The Asphalt Jungle Revisited: Policing and Childhood in Disney's Zootopia, Dr. Eric Meyers and Bonnie Tulloch
• Emotion Expression in Arabic Twitter, Hassan AlHuzali and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
• Describing Indigenous Material Culture and Images in Libraries and Museums, Michele Jennings
• Imagined Identities, Imagined Libraries: The Investment Approach to Library Service, Ean Henninger
• Languages Represent: Linguistic Diversity and Public Library Staff, Ean Henninger
• Visual Segmentation of Heavy Equipment in Western Canada, Nathaniel Payne
• Freedom to Be Heard: The Right to Access Diverse Viewpoints, Alamir Novin and Darra Hofman
• Experiencing Social Cost(s): LGBTQ Youth Everyday Health Information Seeking Behaviours, Blake Hawkins
• Visual Analysis of File Formats and Compatible Software to Facilitate Access to Digital Records, Mia Stenberg
• Indigenous Initiatives and Information Studies Education: Developing Pedagogical Capacities, Amy Perreault and Lisa Nathan
• Imagine, Make, Empower!, Sara Ellis, Terri McKellar, Stacy Paull

Demonstrations

• What is Information Governance?, Students of ARST 560/LIBR 514H Information Governance.

March 11, 2016

Keynote presentation

• The Curator and Copyright, Peter Hirtle (Harvard University)

Presentations

• Effects of Field Dependence-Independence and Pre-existing Highlighting on Text Comprehension, Samuel Dodson, Dr. Luanne Freund, and Dr. Rick Kopak
• A Solution to Disorderly Backlogs of Digital Files? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Network Analysis in File Reclassification Projects, Kate Chandler
• Learning to Listen: Archival Sound Recordings and Indigenous Cultural Property, Allison Mills
• Secondary School Students' Perceptions of Risks to Privacy Online: A Study of Students within the Vancouver School Board, Elissa How
• Useful Search Engine Results: An Exploratory Study of Information Presentation and Use, Alamir Novin

Posters

• The Role of Images and Sketching in the Collaborative Information Behaviour of Architectural Students, Kelly Burke, Alamir Novin, Sarah Zhang, Wendy Zhang, and Heather O'Brien
• Harry Potter and the Enhanced Editions: The Transmedia Storytelling Experience, Marlo Humiski
• Citing Evidence Emotionally, Aaron J. Loehrlein, Gillian Dunks and Michelle Kaczmarek
• Information Needs and Practices of Refugee Students, Elissa How, Wendy Lu, Millicent Mabi, Cecilia Rose, Saguna Shankar and Heather O'Brien
• Ontology of Archival Functions and Activities, Tristan Triponez
• Privacy and Threat Modeling in Online Contexts: Designing an App for Youth Information Management, Krista Parham and Taylor Kenkel
• Questioning Library Neutrality, Jacob Vangeest
• Reflections of Participatory Mapping of Health Information Seeking and the Need for a Standard, Blake Hawkins, Luanne Freund, and Elizabeth Saewyc
• Information Seeking Engagements of Recently Arrived Immigrants in the City of Burnaby, David McAtackney and Deb Thomas
• The British Columbia Audiovisual Inventory Initiative (BC AVII): A Survey of Audiovisual Materials and Playback Machines in BC, Jenny Haddon and Cecilia Rose
• (re)Designing Information Practices: Decolonizing the Mundane, Shannon Cheng, Emily Guerrero, Michelle Kaczmarek, Rebecca Lahr, Kim Lawson, David McAtackney and Lisa Nathan
• Librarians Connecting Health Practitioners with Cultural Competency Resources: A Conversation, Shannon Cheng and Robert Hamaker
• Merging Archival Description and Digital Archives: Direct Mediation of Archival Collections in Finding Aids, Brianna Gormly
• Imaginate: A Co-Play Application Design for Promoting Child Development, Lacey Hall
• An Examination of Open System Information Sources in Religious Sermons of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Caroline Tippets
• How to Be a #critlib: Reflections on Implementing Critical Theory in Practice, Jacob Vangeest and Blake Hawkins
• Colonial legacies and the design of a digital archive of traumatic collections, Richard Arias-Hernandez, Lisa Nathan, Elizabeth Shaffer, Maria Paraschos, and Sarika Kelm