Research

Developing Library Cyberinfrastructure Strategy for Big Data Sharing and Reuse

Virginia Tech Libraries, in partnership with the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as the University of North Texas Department of Library and Information Sciences, engage in a two-year research grant to develop a broadly adaptable library cyberinfrastructure strategy for big data sharing and reuse. The strategy is based on intelligently matching and synthesizing five types of existing cyberinfrastruture options against key requirements extracted from three representative library big data services. The strategy will be validated against different experimental deployments of these services.    Full Proposal is avaliable at IMLS

People

Investigators

Zhiwu Xie

Zhiwu Xie

Professor
University Libraries
Virginia Tech

Tyler Walters

Tyler Walters

Dean & Professor
University Libraries
Virginia Tech

Edward Fox

Edward A. Fox

Professor
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech

Pablo Tarazaga

Pablo Tarazaga

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Tech

Jiangping Chen

Jiangping Chen

Associate Professor
Department of Library
and Information Sciences
University of North Texas

Advisory Committee

  • Suzie Allard  University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  • Robert Cartolano  Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Nick Krabbenhoeft  New Your Public Library, New York, NY
  • Dean B. Krafft  Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • Robert H. McDonald  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  • David Minor  University of California, San Diego, CA
  • William E. Moen  University of North Texas, Denton, TX
  • Robin Ruggaber  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  • Ryan Scherle  Duke University, Durham, NC
  • Julie Griffin  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  • Herbert Van de Sompel  Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Graduate Research Assistants

  • Abhinav Kumar  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
  • Xinyue Wang  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
  • Xiaoyu Zhang  University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Publications

  • Zhiwu Xie, and Edward A. Fox, Advancing library cyberinfrastructure for big data sharing and reuse. Information Services & Use, To appear. DOI:10.3233/ISU-170853, 2017
  • Tyler Walters, Big Data: Making Research Accessible, Discoverable, and Reusable, 2017 Texas Library Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2017
  • Edward A. Fox, Zhiwu Xie, and Martin Klein, Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2016: Highlights and Introduction to this Special Issue, Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 2017(13)
  • Yinlin Chen, Zhiwu Xie, and Edward A. Fox, A Library to Manage Web Archive Files in Cloud Storage, Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 2017(13)
  • Zhiwu Xie, Krati Nayyar, and Edward A. Fox, Nearline Web Archiving, Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 2017(13)
  • Zhiwu Xie, Advancing Library Cyberinfrastructure for Big Data Sharing and Reuse, invited talk at National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) 2017 Annual Conference, Alexandria, VA, 2017 (Feb. 27)
  • Greg Tananbaum, Zhiwu Xie, and Anita de Waard, Rolling in the Deep Analytics: Big Data Comes to Scholarly Communication, Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, 2016
  • Zhiwu Xie, Yinlin Chen, Julie Speer, and Tyler Walters, Evaluating Cost of Cloud Execution in a Data Repository, In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Newark, NY, 2016
  • Zhiwu Xie, Edward A. Fox, Tyler Walters, Pablo Tarazaga, and Jiangping Chen, Developing Library Cyberinfrastructure (LCI) Strategy for Big Data Sharing and Reuse, D-Lib Magazine, 2016(22)
  • Zhiwu Xie, Andrej Galad, Yinlin Chen, and Edward Fox, Are Repositories Impeding Big Data Reuse?, Open Repositories, Dublin, Ireland, 2016
  • Edward A. Fox, Zhiwu Xie, and Martin Klein, WADL 2016: Third International Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries, In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Newark, NY, 2016 (293-294)