For my MLIS capstone team project, I built a crowdsourced tagging site for novels. Using a tag wrangling process and dual include/exclude search interface inspired by the Archive of Our Own, we demonstrated how curating user-submitted tags into a detailed controlled … [Read more...] about MLIS Capstone: FictionFilters.org
Import and Migration
Rutgers GradFund
The School of Graduate Studies Peer Mentoring Fellowship Advising Service maintains a database of funding opportunities for graduate students: scholarships, fellowships, and other awards. The database is maintained in-house and needed to be synced with the public website—which … [Read more...] about Rutgers GradFund
University of Georgia Pressbooks OER Network
The University of Georgia Online Learning team had a pilot project for their open educational resources: the Physical Education department had written an open textbook for their courses, and it was the ideal project to see whether Pressbooks would serve their needs. If it went … [Read more...] about University of Georgia Pressbooks OER Network
National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
Among the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s long-term federal contracts was a library of information related to road construction work zones. The site was approximately ten years old and was running in an outdated and insecure version of Drupal. TTI’s web team had long … [Read more...] about National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Search
The Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory is a small state agency that provides diagnostic testing services to veterinarians. The website includes a database of available tests, shipping instructions for biological samples, a reference library, an archive of news … [Read more...] about Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Search
Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases
The Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, a part of Texas A&M's AgriLife division, is a research center focusing on animal disease. In addition to the usual news and informational pages, the site needed to showcase the Center's research projects, tools (the finished … [Read more...] about Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases
Texas A&M University Writing Center
When I was hired in 2007, the Writing Center had a complex site built in Mambo. It that hadn't been updated in a while. Only the director felt comfortable adding anything, and we had forty-odd enthusiastic students who could contribute -- if only they knew how. I updated the to … [Read more...] about Texas A&M University Writing Center
Strategic Research Development
The Strategic Research Development group was, like many offices at Texas A&M University, stuck with an old Dreamweaver-based website they didn't know how to maintain. I moved the content into WordPress using the HTML Import plugin, designed them a simple theme (a child theme … [Read more...] about Strategic Research Development
Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
TVMDL was moving into WordPress with the help of some very talented in-house people, but they were having trouble getting past their old content. I did a content inventory and helped them implement some of the changes they wanted to make to the AgriLife parent theme. Along the … [Read more...] about Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
South Central Writing Centers Association
This was one of the fastest migrations I've ever done. I was asked to see what I could do with the site without spending a lot of time on it. I ran its files through the HTML Import plugin, cleaned up and reorganized the content, and moved the new site to wordpress.com... all in … [Read more...] about South Central Writing Centers Association
