Open Research Projects
Projects on this page represent a selection of the work of multiple departments.
Futurama, Autogeddon
A media-rich, web-only monograph examines the "fantasies of technological utopianism as well as anxieties about the destruction of the environment and the dehumanizing impact of modernity."
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Contributing departments: Open Knowledge Center, Acquisitions & Discovery
Increasing the Public Impact of Research (pilot)
Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva partnered with the Open Knowledge Center to experiment with various modes of increasing the potential for her work to have impacts outside of higher education. As a pilot project, this public impact strategy offers a test case in how a library might partner with researchers to extend research products into creative and open access works.
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Contributing departments: Open Knowledge Center
Tally Tracker Explorer
Tally Tracker Explorer is a visualization depicting live and archived game data from all players in Tally Saves the Internet, a browser extension that transforms the data that advertisers collect into a multiplayer game. It was designed by Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy of Sneakaway Studio as part of the NC State University Libraries' Immersive Scholar grant, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Contributing departments: Open Knowledge Center, Data Science Services
Tess-Celestial
Tess-Celestial is a visualization project that explores the interplay of art, nature, culture, shape, perspective, and math in our everyday lives.
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Contributing departments: Data Science Services, Open Knowledge Center
Dryad Repository Development Grants
Past project: Development of a repository initially focused on evolutionary science data underlying scientific publications.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
Exploring the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles through Immersive Virtual Reality in the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery
The NC State University NeuroComputational Ethics Research Group (NCERG) and Libraries staff have combined experimental philosophy with immersive virtual reality technologies in the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery to capture research participants’ moral intuitions when presented with traffic scenarios containing ethical dilemmas. These insights aim to inform the development of ethical frameworks for future fully autonomous vehicles.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement, Learning Spaces & Services
Fermentology
Fermentology is a digital collection of written and media works about the culture, history, and science of fermented foods.
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Contributing departments: Open Knowledge Center, Collections & Research Engagement, Community EngagementSummer of Open Science
The Summer of Open Science was a series of workshops and events intended to support skill acquisition for faculty and graduate students in topics that are core to modern research practice.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)Scholar’s Backpack
A reproducible virtual environment intended as a learning tool which contains basic infrastructure for scientific computing and is highly portable.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)