Grants

• IMLS National Leadership Grants (LG-254883-OLS-23) Curating Very Large Biomedical Image Datasets For Librarian-In-The-Loop Deep Learning 🔗 (2023-2025)
• Leveraging Large Language Models to Understand the Financial Behavior of Women and Minority Groups. (2023-2024)
• Behind Density Lines: Machine Learning and Citizen Scientists in Quantifying Scanning Electron Microscopy Images 🔗 (2023)
• Data-centric MLOps for Image Segmentation in Cell Organelles (2022-2023)
• Data-Centric Approach to Digital Twins of the Built Environment (2022-2023)
• Amazon AWS Cloud Credits for Research Grants (2017–2018)
• Virginia Tech Libraries Beyond Boundaries Innovation Fund (2016-2018)
• National Distinction and Exceptional Performance, Virginia Tech (2016-2017)
• Amazon AWS in Education Research Grants (2010–2011)

University Libraries Projects

• Council on Library & Information Resources: Entomo-3D: Digitizing the Virginia Tech Insect Collection 🔗 (2020-2023)
• Virginia Tech Digital Libraries Platform 🔗 (2018-Present)
  • International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) 🌐
  • Southwest Virginia Digital Archive (SWVA) 🌐
  • Hokies@Home 🌐

• Virginia Tech Libraries - CollabVT and VIVOHarvester (2018-2019)
• Virginia Tech Libraries - GeoData (2016-2018)
• Virginia Tech Libraries - VTechData (2015-2018)
• ETDplus - Supporting the evolution of ETD research products 🔗 (2014-2017)
• Fedora open source repository 🔗(2014-Present)
• FishTraits Database (2014)

Research Projects

• Cloud-native Data Analytics application for ETDs (2018)
• Ensemble: Enriching Communities and Collections to Support Education in Computing 🔗 (2008-2014)
• A Digital Library for Recovery, Research, and Learning from April 16, 2007 🔗 (2008-2009)

Software and Applications

• Analyzing WARC on serverless computing: a serverless data analytics application that processes the Common Crawl files stored in the AWS S3 🔓 (2021)
• Thumbnail creator: This application generates thumbnails for uploaded images, PDFs, and videos in an S3 bucket 🔓 (2021)
• Amplify Appsync GraphQL examples 🔓 (2021)
• AWS Amplify Previews Actions: A GitHub action enables the ability to deploy AWS Amplify Pull-Request Previews for the public GitHub repository 🔓 (2020-2021)
• DLPservices: An AWS SAM template that deploys an ID Minting service and a Resolution service 🔓 (2020-2021)
• VTDLP ID Minting Service: This service assigns a new NOID (Nice Opaque Identifier) to a record and updates the record’s information 🔓 (2020-2021)
• VTDLP Resolution Service: This service resolves VTDLP NOID URLs to their permanent links 🔓 (2020-2021)
• DDBtoDDB: A Lambda function that transfers data between DynamoDB tables, ensuring accurate restoration 🔓 (2020-2021)
• Custom Lambda layers for VTDLP services: A library layer of Python libraries for AWS Lambda functions 🔓 (2020-2021)
• Preservation Fixity Service: A serverless fixity service for digital preservation compliance 🔓 (2020)
• FixityEventRule: A CloudWatch schedule service that invokes a Lambda function to query Athena and execute AWS Step functions 🔓 (2020)
• dlp-access-lambdas: AWS Lambda functions that update dlp-access DynamoDB tables to have the necessary data for the collection folder tree 🔓 (2020)
• DLP Access Website: A Multi-Tenancy Serverless web application 🔓 (2019-Present)
• S3toDDB: A microservice for ingesting University Libraries’ digital assets’ metadata 🔓 (2019-Present)
• AWS Batch IIIF Generator: An automated pipeline generating IIIF tiles and manifests, using AWS S3 as an IIIF image server 🔓 (2019-2020)
• IIIF_S3 docker: A Docker container image containing executable IIIF tiling scripts 🔓 (2019-2020)
• NOID-mint Python Package: A Python library for NOID generation 🔓 (2019-2020)
• DSpace AIP archiver: A program uses OAI-PMH to fetch recent DSpace items, creates APTrust Bagit files, and uploads to S3 🔓 (2019-2020)
• VIVOHarvester: A modern, full or incremental harvester to collect data from Symplectic Elements for import into VIVO 🔓 (2019)
• fcrepo-kubernetes: Deploy Fedora version 4 in Kubernetes 🔓 (2019)
• Virginia Tech Theme for CollabVT: A VIVO scholarship platform 🔓 (2018-2019)
• A cloud-native data analysis application for ETDs: An AWS microservice architecture application to analyze VTechwork ETDs 🔓 (2018)
• A Library to Manage Web Archive Files in Cloud Storage 🔓 (2018)
• Fedora 4/5 Docker image: Container image for Fedora version 4 and version 5 🔓 (2016-2019)
• GeoData: A Blacklight geospatial data application 🔓 (2016-2018)
• Fedora 4 Ansible: Ansible script for Fedora version 4 🔓 (2016-2018)
• VTechData: A Samvera Hydra/Rails data repository application 🔓 (2015-2018)
• Fedora: A robust, modular, open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content 🔓 (2014-2019)
• ETDPlus: Curating ETD research data and digital objects 🔓 (2014-2017)