Melissa Chalmers Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor, Mi

Support the research project "Validating Quality in Large Scale Digitization" (Paul Conway, PI). This project investigates the scale and severity of error within the HathiTrust repository's corpus of digitized texts, and engages with specific user communities to gauge the impact of errors on use. Conduct literature reviews on research literature related to information quality, relevance, and trustworthiness. Currently designing user studies for four separate use case scenarios of HathiTrust digitized content.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Supported a project investigating the reuse of scientific research data by engineers and industry partners. Performed background research related to knowledge transfer in collaborative research environments. Assisted in the collection and analysis of qualitative data as well as in the construction of data collection instruments.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Phd, Digitization, New Media Studies, Infrastructure Studies

Activities and Societies: Digital Studies Workshop, Science & Technology Studies program

Msi, Preservation Of Information

Ma, Cultural Studies

Ba, Anthropology, History