20 Questions with Richard Urban What was your first job? I started as a “Page” at the Ridley Township Public Library when I was 15. I spent so much time there, I figured I should get paid for it. If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? “Not all …
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iSchool’s Richard Urban presents at DCMI
Richard Urban, Assistant Professor in the School of Information, presented at International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Dallas, Texas from October 8-11. Urban, who wrote his dissertation on the Dublin Core 1:1 Principle, presented on the subject at his third DCMI conference. “I’ve attended DCMI 2008 in Berlin and DCMI 2010 in …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool doc student Dong Joon Lee earns highly coveted NSF internship
Dong Joon Lee, doctoral candidate in the School of Information interned this summer at Research Data Alliance. Lee was one of eight selected for the highly coveted internship, which is provided by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and funded by a National Science Foundation grant. He was mentored by Michael Witt from the Distributed Data …
CONTINUE READINGThree CCI faculty members awarded 2013 First Year Assistant Professor Grants
School of Communication & Science Disorders faculty member, Dr. Kaitlin Lansford, and two School of Library & Information Studies faculty members, Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho and Dr. Richard Urban, have each been awarded First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Grants for 2013. Here are some of their research project topics and links to abstract summaries: Dr. …
CONTINUE READINGDr. Richard Urban (2013 FYAP Grant Winner)- Research Project Information
Title: “Representation Patterns for Cultural Heritage” Abstract: The World Wide Web has been an extremely successful way to share documents on a global scale, yet it contains an important flaw. Documents on the Web can only be associated through hyperlinks that hide the relationships among them. Although documents may contain a great deal of information, …
CONTINUE READINGUrban teaching week-long DHWI intensive on web publishing course
Dr. Richard Urban of the School of Library & Information Studies will be teach a week-long intensive course, “Publishing and Using Linked Open Data,” as part of the Digital Humanities Winter Institute, Jan. 7–11. The institute is hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. In addition to Dr. Urban’s course, its 2013 …
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