IT Showcase Projects
Welcome to an overview of several ongoing projects here at the School of Information! We're interested in how people create, use, and save information - pretty much everything that has something to do with information (hence the name).
Our Technology Tutorials are a living collection of publicly available tutorials that allow us to not only support our students, but also to test a wide variety of new technologies and techniques in various environments.
INF 312 (Information in Cyberspace) is possibly the largest Web-based class at the University, and serves a major role as a real-world testbed for many of our technology tutorials. The course is designed to accommodate an average of 200 students per semester, and several of our former IT Lab staff members (and School of Information graduates) have taught the course since its inception in the summer of 2001.
The Texas Legacy Project is a collaboration between the School of Information and the Conservation History Association of Texas. This collaboration provides the School with a large high-quality digital video library that can be used for a variety of purposes, such as digital preservation and cataloguing initiatives.
The Glifos Collaboration is an ongoing effort to develop, test, and deploy a rich media toolset suitable for use in a wide variety of environments. Glifos was created by Rodrigo Arias and Dr. Grete Pasch, a former iSchool student and co-creator of the online version of "Information in Cyberspace." We are currently testing a rich media authoring environment called gmCreator, which provides indexing, captioning, and synchronization between audio, video, image, text, and other types of media. Our primary work has been testing a port of the software to SMIL and Real Media to support our cross-platform tutorial efforts.
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