Grants & Awards
Research funding at the iSchool averages $1-2 million a year, with awards from National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Service, National Endowment for the Humanities, DARPA, Google, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.
Our Research
Archives, Records, and Knowledge Management
The Central State Hospital Digital Archives Project
Investigator(s): King Davis, Pat Galloway, & Unmil Karadkar
Source of Funds: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Amount: $763,000
Time: 2016
Building the Future of Archival Education and Research, Phase II
Investigator(s): Pat Galloway
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $142,000
Time: 2013
Indigenous ways: assessing the awareness of and potential need for identifying content on indigenous world view in educating Lib
Investigator(s): Loriene Roy
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $44,790
Time: 2013 - 2015
Digital Libraries / Digital Humanities
Exploring Data Worlds at the Public Library
Investigator(s): Amelia Acker
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $109,399
Time: N/A
Social Facets of Data Science
Investigator(s): Amelia Acker
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $24,941
Time: 2016 - 2017
High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship Research and Development with Repositories
Investigator(s): Tanya Clement
Source of Funds: National Endowment for the Humanities
Amount: $250,000
Time: 2014 - 2017
Institute for High Performance Sound Technologies for analysis and Scholarship (HIPSTAS)
Investigator(s): Tanya Clement
Source of Funds: National Endowment for the Humanities
Amount: $235,000
Time: 2012 - 2015
Health Informatics
Understanding Consumers’ Quality Evaluation of Online Health Information Using a Mixed-Method Approach.
Investigator(s): Yan Zhang, & Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation and the Digital Media Program, UT Austin.
Amount: $44,000
Time: 2015 - 2017
Manual and automatic analysis of patients' values and preferences using Seton's Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Provi
Investigator(s): Bo Xie, & Ken Fleischmann
Source of Funds: N/A
Amount: N/A
Time: 2015
History, Policy, and Cultural Studies
EESE: Collaborative Research: Understanding and Preparing Future Computer Professionals for the Ethical Complexities
Investigator(s): Ken Fleischmann
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $85,000
Time: 2012 - 2014
Human-Computer Interaction / Information Architecture
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Offshore Drilling and Production
Investigator(s): Randolph Bias
Source of Funds: Ocean Energy Safety Institute
Amount: $27,600
Time: 2016
Semi-Automating Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews
Investigator(s): Randolph Bias
Source of Funds: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $26,000
Time: 2015 - 2019
UT-Austin release of ASMP 2.0, usability support
Investigator(s): Randolph Bias
Source of Funds: The University of Texas at Austin, ITS
Amount: $80,000
Time: N/A
Reporting for scientific software sustainability
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $54,000
Time: N/A
The Scientific Software Map
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $541,984
Time: 2011 - 2015
EAGER-Distilling a Process for a National CI Roadmap from NSF Collaboratories
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $49,000
Time: 2011 - 2017
Research Collaboration Network for Managing Research Centers
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $498,000
Time: 2012 - 2017
CAREER: Sustaining Scientific Infrastructure: Researching Transition from Grants to Peer Production
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $535,349
Time: 2015 - 2021
Improving the visibility of scholarly software work
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Amount: $635,000
Time: 2016 - 2018
Virtual Organization Resources and Toolkits Exchange (VORTEX)
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $94,996
Time: 2013 - 2015
Information Behavior
Towards a measure of “skimmability”
Investigator(s): Randolph Bias
Source of Funds: Microsoft
Amount: $50,000
Time: 2016 -
Information Organization and Retrieval
Child-friendly Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs): Towards Better Understanding of Google Search Results Readability by Childre
Investigator(s): Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: Google Faculty Research Awards
Amount: $41,363
Time: 2014 -
Relevance Mining and Detection System (REMINDS)
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease, & Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: FCT
Amount: $100,000
Time: 2015 - 2017
Personalized Complex Data Exploration (PCDE)
Investigator(s): Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: Lockheed Martin
Amount: $50,000
Time: N/A
Continuous Assessment of Cognitive Load in Information Seeking: CAREER Development Award
Investigator(s): Jacek Gwizdka
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $334,641
Time: 2011
Enabling a New Scale of Conversational Speech Archives via Crowdsourcing
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $287,654
Time: 2013 - 2016
CAREER: Achieving Quality Crowdsourcing Across Tasks, Data Scales, and Operational Settings
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $582,000
Time: 2013 - 2019
Blending Crowdsourcing with Automation for Fast, Cheap, and Accurate Analysis of Spontaneous Speech
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: DARPA
Amount: $300,000
Time: 2013 - 2015
Crowdsourcing as a Methodology to Investigate User Engagement
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: YAHOO!
Amount: $20,000
Time: N/A
Efficient and Scalable Evaluation for Searching Massive Arabic Social Media and Web Collections
Investigator(s): Matthew Lease
Source of Funds: Qatar National Research Fund
Amount: $305,000
Time: 2015 - 2018
Socio-Technical Studies
DETAILS: Discovering and Explaining Technical Emergence Through Analysis of the Language and Structure of Scientific Publication
Investigator(s): Ken Fleischmann
Source of Funds: IARPA
Amount: $108,000
Time: N/A
DETAILS: Discovering and Explaining Technical Emergence Through Analysis of the Language and Structure of Scientific Publication
Investigator(s): Ken Fleischmann
Source of Funds: IARPA
Amount: $90,000
Time: N/A
Using Eularian video magnification to study the effect of fluctuations in relative humidity on cultural heritage materials
Investigator(s): Karen Pavelka
Source of Funds: National Center for Preservation technology and Training
Amount: $30,500
Time: 2016
Information Work Research Group
Investigator(s): Tanya Clement
Source of Funds: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $500,000
Time: N/A
Achieving Development Goals with Information Technology
Investigator(s): James Howison & Diane Bailey
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,089,490.00
Time: 2014 -2020
Socio-technical ecosystems for scientific software development
Investigator(s): James Howison
Source of Funds: National Science Foundation
Amount: $400,000
Time: 2009 - 2013
Research Areas
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Archives, Records, and Knowledge Management
Digital Libraries / Digital Humanities
History, Policy, and Cultural Studies
Human-Computer Interaction / Information Architecture