A digital library for recovery, research, and learning from April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech.
Edward A. Fox, Christopher P. Andrews, Weiguo Fan, Jian Jiao, Ananya Kassahun, Szu-Chia Lu, Yifei Ma, Chris L. North, Naren Ramakrishnan, Angela Scarpa, Bruce H. Friedman, Steven D. Sheetz, Donald J. Shoemaker, Venkat Ramanan Srinivasan, Seungwon Yang, Laura Boutwell · Traumatology An International Journal · 2008
We are developing a digital library to help during the long-term recovery from the mass shooting on April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech. Content comes from uploaded texts, images, videos, and other files, as well as pages crawled from the Web, and information collected, with permission, from those working with Web 2.0 sites like Facebook and Flickr. We are applying data/text mining, social network analysis, and information visualization methods to facilitate systems science, providing key added-value services, especially to social and behavioral scientists seeking faster and easier ways to analyze, model, understand, and test hypotheses. We consider how technologies influence communications. We aim to support the university, local community, region, nation, and the world, as it seeks to learn from a tragic event.