Digital Curation Planning at Michigan State University

Isotope Science Facility at Michigan State University

Michigan State University at the 2007 TREC ciQA Task

This is our first participation in the ciQA task. Instead of exploring conversation strategies in question answering [3, 4], we decided to focus on simple interaction strategies using relevance feedback. In our view, the ciQA task is not designed to evaluate user initiative interaction strategies. Since NIST assessors act as users, the motivation to take an initiative is lacking. It is not clea...

1995-1996 Research Progress-Michigan State University

Trichloroethylene (TCE), a suspected cancer causing agent and a USEPA priority pollutant, is the most commonly reported volatile organic contaminant of groundwater at hazardous waste sites. The degradation of TCE and other solvents such as benzene and toluene by bacteria commonly found in groundwater environments has been extensively studied, yet the relationship between the rate of degradation...

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.

Digital Curation

Left unattended, digital information degrades over time. Even if the information’s bits are correctly preserved (a difficult task in itself) the technological context surrounding the bits—the computing platforms, programming languages, applications, file formats, and so forth—will change sufficiently over time until the information is no longer usable. Changes in the information’s social contex...