Dr. Peter Organisciak
Associate Professor, University of Denver, Research Methods and Information Science
Professional Positions
University of Denver. (September 2023-present)
University of Denver. (September 2017-August 2023)
HathiTrust Research Center. (2015-2017)
Microsoft Research. (April 2013 - August 2013)
Education
Major: Library and Information Science
Dissertation: Design Problems in Crowdsourcing: Improving the Quality of Crowd-Based Data Collection
Committee: Michael Twidale, J. Stephen Downie, Miles Efron, Jaime Teevan
Major: Humanities Computing - Library and Information Studies
Thesis: Why Bother? Examining the motivations of users in large-scale crowd-powered online initiatives
Committee: Lisa Given, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker
Major: Communication Studies and Multimedia
Awards
Media
Katy Waldman, Slate (Lexicon Valley: A Blog about Language), November 23, 2015
Hal Hodson, New Scientist, 2989, October 2, 2014
Funding
Awarded
"Measuring Original Thinking in Elementary School: A Computational Psychometric Approach" (2020-2023) $964,081 Institute of Education Sciences #R305A200519 Selcuk Acar (University of North Texas, Principal), Dumas, D. G. (Co-Principal), Organisciak, P. (Co-Principal) DU sub-grant: $451,988.
"Collaborative Analysis Liaison Librarians (CALL)" (2019-2022)$883,034 Institution of Library and Museum Services.
#RE-13-19-0027-19
Wade Bishop (Principal, University of Tennessee Knoxville), Carole
Tenopir (UTK, Co-Principal), Suzie Allard (UTK, Co-Principal),
Organisciak, P. (Director). DU total: $129,746.00.
"Text Duplication and Similarity in Massive Digital Collections" (2018-2021) $276,943 (Total value: $351,031) Institute of Museum and Library Services. #LG-86-18-0061-18 Organisciak, P. (Principal)
"Exploring the Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm: HathiTrust + Bookworm" (2014-2017) $324,841 (Total value: $504,373). National Endowment for the Humanities. Downie, J. S. (Illinois, Principal), Aiden, E. L. (Rice University). $324,841. NEH implementation grant. Sept 2014-Aug 2017.
DU Sponsored - Awarded
Dumas, D. G., Organisciak, P., 84335, Internal Awards, "FB-Dumas Organisciak", $6,486.00. (start: April 1, 2019, end: June 30, 2020).
Organisciak, P., Internal Awards, "MOODs: Identifying Outlier Passages and Texts in the Legislative Process", $5,040.56, Awarded, peer-reviewed/refereed. (sub: April 2, 2018, start: July 2018, end: June 2019).
Publications
Journal Articles
Measuring original thinking in elementary school: Development and validation of a computational psychometric approach
2024Authors: S. Acar, D. Dumas, P. Organisciak, K. Berthiaume.
DOI: 10.1037/edu0000844
Additional Info:A comparison of supervised and unsupervised learning methods in automated scoring of figural tests of creativity
2023Authors: S. Acar, P. Organisciak, D. Dumas.
Status:Under review
Additional Info:Lost in translation? Not for Large Language Models: Automated divergent thinking scoring performance translates to non-English contexts
2023Authors: Aleksandra Zielińska, Peter Organisciak, Denis Dumas, Maciej Karwowski.
Volume: 50
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101414
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking
2023Authors: PL. De Chantel, P. Organisciak.
DOI: 10.1037/aca0000592
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models
2023Authors: P. Organisciak, S. Acar, D. Dumas, K. Berthiaume.
Volume: 49
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101356
Additional Info:How do the kids speak? Modeling child-directed language for educational use
2023Authors: P. Organisciak, S. Acar, M. Newman, D. Dumas, D. Eby.
Additional Info:What makes children’s responses to creativity assessments difficult to judge reliably?
2023Authors: D. Dumas, S. Acar, K. Berthiaume, P. Organisciak, D. Eby, K. Grajzel, T. Flemister, M. Newman, M. Carrera.
DOI: 10.1002/jocb.588
The effects of research data management services: Associating the data curation life cycle with open research output
2023Authors: N. Pares, P. Organisciak.
DOI: 10.5860/crl.84.5.751
Approximate Nearest Neighbor for long document relationship labeling in digital libraries
2023Authors: P. Organisciak, M. Durward, B. M. Schmidt.
DOI: 10.1007/s00799-023-00354-5
Measuring Flexibility of Thinking Using Text-Mining
2023Authors: K. Grajzel, D. G. Dumas, K. Berthiaume, S. Acar, P. Organisciak.
Defensive Driving: CAR:POOL as a Model for Proactive Postsecondary Planning and Connection
2022Authors: J. Talley, D. Talapatra, G. Miller, P. Organisciak.
DOI: 10.1007/s40688-022-00438-0
Job analyses of Earth science data managers: A survey validation of competencies to inform curricula in research data management education
2022Authors: B. W. Bishop, M. Cowan, H. Collier, P. Organisciak, M. Mayernik.
Improving Text Relationship Modeling with Artificial Data
2022Authors: P. Organisciak, M. Ryan.
DOI: 10.1177/01655515221093031
Applying automated originality scoring to the verbal form of Torrance Tests of creative thinking
2021Authors: S. Acar, K. Berthiaume, K. Grajzel, D. G. Dumas, T. Flemister, P. Organisciak.
DOI: 10.1177/00169862211061874
Giving shape to large digital libraries through exploratory data analysis
2021Authors: P. Organisciak, B. M. Schmidt, J. S. Downie.
DOI: 10.1002/asi.24547
Four text-mining methods for measuring elaboration
2021Authors: D. G. Dumas, P. Organisciak, S. Maio, M. Doherty.
Volume: 55
DOI: 10.1002/jocb.471
The psychology of professional and student actors: Creativity, personality, and motivation
2020Authors: D. G. Dumas, M. Doherty, P. Organisciak.
Volume: 15
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240728
Is the reliability of objective originality scores confounded by elaboration?
2020Authors: S. Maio, D. G. Dumas, P. Organisciak, M. Runco.
DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2020.1818492
Measuring divergent thinking originality with human raters and text-mining models: A psychometric comparison of methods
2020Authors: D. G. Dumas, P. Organisciak, M. Doherty.
DOI: 10.1037/aca0000319
The HathiTrust Digital Library's potential for musicology research
2020Authors: J. S. Downie, S. Bhattacharyya, F. Giannetti, E. Dickson Koehl, P. Organisciak.
DOI: 10.1007/s00799-020-00283-7
The MIREX grand challenge: A framework of holistic user-experience evaluation in music information retrieval
2017Authors: X. Hu, J. H. Lee, D. Bainbridge, K. Choi, P. Organisciak, J. S. Downie.
Volume: 68
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23618
Text mining in Python through the HTRC Feature Reader
2016Authors: P. Organisciak, B. Capitanu.
Volume: 5
DOI: 10.46430/phen0058
A fragmentizing interface to a large corpus of digitized text: (Post)humanism and non-consumptive reading via features
2015Authors: S. Bhattacharyya, P. Organisciak, J. S. Downie.
Volume: 40
DOI: 10.1179/0308018814Z.000000000105
The design of an international social media event: A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities
2012Authors: G. Rockwell, P. Organisciak, S. Ruecker, M. Meredith-Lobay, K. Ranaweera, J. Nyhan.
Volume: 6
Additional Info: The project this reports was winner of Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities
Ubiquitous Text Analysis
2010Authors: G. Rockwell, S. Sinclair, S. Ruecker, P. Organisciak.
Volume: 2
Book Chapters
Research access to in-copyright texts in the humanities
2021Authors: P. Organisciak, J. S. Downie.
Editors: K. Golub, Y. Liu.
Volume: 1
Edition: 1st
Proceedings Paper
“The Library is Open!”: Open Data and an Open API for the HathiTrust Digital Library
2023Computational Humanities Research 2023, ceur-ws.org, Paris, France
Authors: John A Walsh, Glen Layne-Worthey, Jacob J Jett, Boris Capitanu, Peter Organisciak, Ryan Dubnicek, J Stephen Downie.
Editors: Artjoms Šeļa, Fotis Jannidis, Iza Romanowska.
Volume: 3558
Enriching Library Holdings for English Language Learners: Applying Traditional Readability Formulas and Modern Cohesion Methods to Film
2023Authors: M. Durward, P. Organisciak.
Volume: 60
Characterizing same work relationships in large-scale digital libraries
2019Authors: P. Organisciak, S. Shetenhelm, D. Francisco Albuquerque Vasques, K. Matusiak.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_40
Additional Info: Winner, Best Short Research Paper
Access to billions of pages for large-scale text analysis
2017Authors: P. Organisciak, B. Capitanu, T. Underwood, J. S. Downie.
Volume: 2
DOI: 10.9776/17100
Matching and grokking: Approaches to personalized crowdsourcing
2015Authors: P. Organisciak, J. Teevan, S. Dumais, R. C. Miller, A. T. Kalai.
Editors: Q. Yang, M. Wooldridge.
Additional Info: Invited and peer-reviewed awards-track paper at a top artificial intelligent conference
Design facets of crowdsourcing
2015Authors: P. Organisciak, M. Twidale.
A Crowd of Your Own: Crowdsourcing for On-Demand Personalization
2014Authors: P. Organisciak, J. Teevan, S. T. Dumais, R. C. Miller, A. T. Kalai.
Volume: 2
Additional Info: Winner, Notable Paper Award. Featured in New Scientist
When the elevator pitch meets the subject heading: How mixtures of other documents can describe what a document is about
2014Authors: P. Organisciak, M. Twidale.
Volume: 51
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2014.14505101062
Additional Info: Featured in Slate
Evaluating rater quality and rating difficulty in online annotation activities
2012Authors: P. Organisciak, M. Efron, K. Fenlon, M. Senseney.
Volume: 49
Improving Retrieval of Short Texts Through Document Expansion
2012Authors: M. Efron, P. Organisciak, K. Fenlon.
Building Topic Models in a Federated Digital Library Through Selective Document Exclusion
2011Authors: M. Efron, P. Organisciak, K. Fenlon.
Volume: 48
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801048
Additional Info: Best Paper
Semi-automated Collection Evaluation for Large-scale Aggregations
2011Authors: K. Fenlon, P. Organisciak, J. Jett, M. Efron.
Reports
Similarities and Duplicates in Digital Libraries
2021Authors: P. Organisciak, B.M. Schmidt, K. Matusiak.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12650.59846
SIG-CM 2019: Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Report
2020Authors: N. Weber, A. K. Thomer, K. Fenlon, P. Organisciak.
Exploring the Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm
2017Authors: HT+BW Project Team.
Extended Abstracts
Long paper abstracts at certain Humanities and Social Science venues, and poster extended-abstracts in Computer and Information Science proceedings.
Reducing Redundancy Bias in Digital Library Collections
2022Digital Humanities 2022
Authors: A. VandenBosch, P. Organisciak, K. Matusiak.
Challenges and Solutions of Identifying Similarities and Duplication in Digital Libraries
20202020 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Authors: M. Ryan, R. Zhang, M. Durward, K. Matusiak, P. Organisciak.
Examining patterns of text reuse in digitized text collections
20192019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Authors: P. Organisciak, G. Therrell, M. Ryan, B. M. Schmidt.
Worksets expand the scholarly utility of digital libraries
201818th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Authors: K. R. Page, J. Jett, T. W. Cole, D. Kudeki, D. Bainbridge, P. Organisciak, J. S. Downie.
Modeling creativity: Tracking long-term lexical change
2017Digital Humanities 2017
Authors: P. Organisciak, S. Franklin.
Information-seeking in large-scale digital libraries: Strategies for scholarly workset creation
20172017 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Authors: D. M. Weigl, K. R. Page, P. Organisciak, J. S. Downie.
DOI: 10.1109/JCDL.2017.7991583
Accomplishing low-attention microtasks
2016Productivity Decomposed: Getting Big Things Done with Little Microtasks
Authors: P. Organisciak, R. Vaish.
Improving consistency of crowdsourced multimedia similarity for evaluation
201515th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Authors: P. Organisciak, J. S. Downie.
Low Effort Crowdsourcing: Leveraging Peripheral Attention for Crowd Work
2014Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing
Authors: R. Vaish, P. Organisciak, K. Hara, J. P. Bigham, H. Zhang.
Large-scale text analysis through the HathiTrust Research Center
2014Digital Humanities 2014
Authors: P. Organisciak, S. Bhattacharyya, L. Auvil, J. S. Downie.
Using collections and worksets in large-scale corpora: Preliminary findings from the Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis project
2014IConference 2014
Authors: H. Green, K. Fenlon, M. Senseney, S. Bhattacharyya, C. Willis, P. Organisciak, J. S. Downie, T. W. Cole, B. Plale.
Incidental Crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing in the Periphery
2013Digital Humanities 2013
Authors: P. Organisciak.
A Palette Mixing Model of Information Seeking for Complex Queries
2011Proceedings of the SIGIR 2011 Workshop on 'entertain Me': Supporting Complex Search Tasks
Authors: M. Efron, P. Organisciak.
Structured Surfaces for JiTR
2011Digital Humanities 2011
Authors: M. Radzikowska, S. Ruecker, S. Brown, P. Organisciak, t. I. R. Group.
When to ask for help: Evaluating projects for crowdsourcing
2011Digital Humanities 2011
Authors: P. Organisciak.
A Day in the Life of Digital Humanities
2010Digital Humanities 2010
Authors: G. Rockwell, S. Ruecker, P. Organisciak, M. Meredith-Lobay, K. Ranaweera, S. Sinclair.
Mashing Texts: Supporting collections level text analysis
2009Digital Humanities 2009
Authors: S. Ruecker, G. Rockwell, S. Brown, S. Sinclair, P. Organisciak.
Ubiquitous Text Analysis
2009Digital Humanities 2009
Authors: G. Rockwell, S. Ruecker, P. Organisciak, S. Sinclair.
Presentations (refereed)
Conference presentations refereed from peer-reviewed short abstracts, as at Education conferences and some Social Science and Humanities conferences.
Extending Automated Scoring to the Figural Form of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
2024Authors: S. Acar, P. Organisciak, D. Dumas.
Beyond Human Raters: Using AI and NLP in PISA’s Creative Thinking Tests
2024Authors: R. Primi, R. E. Beaty, J. D. Patterson, M. Benedek, I. Paraboni, D. Dumas, P. Organisciak, T. A. Caliço.
A Text-Mining Approach to Measuring Creativity
2021Annual Meeting, National Council for Measurement in Education
Authors: D. G. Dumas, P. Organisciak, M. Doherty.
Text Mining in Educational Research: Demonstrating Language Models for Measuring Creativity
2020Methodology special interest group semi-annual meeting, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction
Authors: D. G. Dumas, P. Organisciak, M. Doherty.
A computational psychometric approach to measuring creative thinking
2020National Council on Measurement in Education
Authors: D. G. Dumas, P. Organisciak, M. Doherty.
Using text-mining models to quantify creative thinking
2020National Council for Measurement in Education
Authors: D. G. Dumas, P. Organisciak, M. Doherty.
Relational reasoning underlies creativity: Evidence from a text-mining investigation
2019Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association
Authors: D. G. Dumas, P. Organisciak.
A Modest Payment for a Modern Proposal
2012Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities
Authors: P. Organisciak.
Pico Safari: Active Gaming in Integrated Environments
2011Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities
Authors: P. Organisciak, G. Wong, C. Henry, L. Gutierrez.
Additional Info: Best Student Paper
Motivations of Users in Large-Scale Crowd-Powered Online Initiatives
2010Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science
Authors: P. Organisciak.
What do we say about ourselves? An analysis of the Day of DH 2009 data
2010Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities
Authors: G. Rockwell, S. Ruecker, P. Organisciak, M. Meredith-Lobay, K. Ranaweera, J. Nyhan.
Shortcuts and Dead Ends: Control Issues With Online User-Generated Content
2010Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS)
Authors: P. Organisciak, K. Reed, A. Hibbert.
Exploring New Possibilities in Rapid Research Document Management
2010Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities
Authors: G. Rockwell, S. Ruecker, P. Organisciak, S. Brown, S. Sinclair.
Invasion of the And-Ors: Applying Active Learning Principles in the Development of a Flash-based Boolean Search Tutorial and Game
2009Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS)
Authors: C. Varnam, P. Organisciak, K. Reed, A. Hibbert, D. Keto.
Introducing a Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities
2009Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI)
Authors: G. Rockwell, S. Ruecker, P. Organisciak.
Presentations (invited)
Talking with Machines: The Do's and Don'ts of Effective Chatbot Use
2023Executive Energy Leadership Academy Alumni Event, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO
Authors: P. Organisciak.
Applications of artificial intelligence to verbal and figural tests of creativity
2023International Society for the Science of Creativity and Innovation, presented remotely via video link
Authors: S. Acar, P. Organisciak, D. Dumas.
Identifying Related and Same-Work Relationships in Large Digital Libraries
2020ASIS&T Webinars
Authors: P. Organisciak, M. Ryan, L. Gypin.
Additional Info:Location: Online
Sponsors: ASIS&T SIG-DM
Strategies for the utilisation of copyright-protected texts for third-party research
2019Non-consumptive Access to In-copyright Digital Works - the US Perspective
Authors: P. Organisciak.
Additional Info:Location: Trier, Germany
Sponsors: Institute for Digital Law Trier and the Trier Center for Digital Humanities, University of Trier
Tooling the future of massive-scale text research data
2019DataLab, University of Washington Information School
Authors: P. Organisciak.
Additional Info:Location: Seattle, Washington
HathiTrust Research Center
2018Nanjing University
Authors: J.S. Downie, P. Organisciak.
Additional Info:Location: Nanjing, China
Data Capsule in 7 minutes
2017Access Workshop 2017,Text Mining the Novel
Authors: P. Organisciak.
Additional Info:Location: Montreal
Presentations (other)
Characterizing Duplication and Similarity in Massive Digital Libraries
2017First Digital Front Range Symposium
Authors: P. Organisciak.
Additional Info:Location: University of Denver
Workshops (refereed)
Fairness and Accountability in Conceptual Models
2021Association for Information Science and Technology
Authors: N. Weber, A. Thomer, P. Organisciak, K. Fenlon.
References: Cancelled.
Workshop on conceptual models in digital libraries, archives, and museums
20202020 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Authors: N. Weber, K. Fenlon, P. Organisciak, A. Thomer, K. Wickett.
Workshop on conceptual models in digital libraries, archives, and museums
20192019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Authors: N. Weber, K. Fenlon, P. Organisciak, A. K. Thomer.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL.2019.00117
Teaching Workshops
Data Scholarship for the Humanities with the HathiTrust Digital Library
2019Authors: J. S. Downie, P. Organisciak, E. Wickes.
Additional Info:Participants: 30 participants
Sponsors: Oxford e-Research Centre
HathiTrust Digital Library
2018Authors: J. S. Downie, E. Dickson Koehl, P. Organisciak, N. Weber.
Additional Info:Participants: 40 participants
Sponsors: Beijing Institute of Technology
Panels
AI Today and Tomorrow in Gifted, Creativity, and Talent Research
2024Authors: T. Spitsberg, P. Organisciak, S. Acar, T. Aldemir, M. Urban, K. Urban.
Classic and Novel Approaches in Creativity Assessment and Programming: Implications for Gifted Education
2023Annual Meeting, AERA, Chicago, IL
Authors: S. Acar, L. E. Lee, A. Rinn-McCann, R. Mun, K. Rambo-Hernandez, K. Berthiaume, D. Dumas, P. Organisciak, T. Flemister, K. Grajzel, M. Newman, D. Eby, C. Deshayes, J. Puryear.
ChatGPT: The Future of Higher Ed and Libraries, Brought to You by AI
2023CNI Spring 2023 Membership Meeting, Coalition for Networked Information, Denver, CO, USA
Authors: K. Boughida, B. Zhang, P. Organisciak, S. D’Agostino.
Resilience in iSchools cohort education during a turbulent time: Improved normalcy through systemic inclusivity and other lessons learned to optimize virtual and physical spaces
2023iConference 2023, iSchools Consortium, Barcelona, Spain
Authors: K. Booth, J. Sanchez, B. W. Bishop, P. Organisciak.
Assessing the Research Data Management Landscape Through Practice and Education
2021Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, Online
Authors: B. W. Bishop, P. Organisciak, M. Mayernik, M. Cowan.
Graduate Education in the Digital Humanities
2009Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Authors: S. Ruecker, G. Rockwell, P. Organisciak, J.-G. Meunier, M. Eberle-Sinatra, A. Galey, A. Morrison, R. Siemens.
Posters
Conference posters associated with a peer-reviewed short abstract.
Advancing Technologies for Traditional Library Services: Utilizing Content Based Recommendation to Assist in Readers' Advisory
2020World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Dublin, Ireland
Authors: M. Durward, P. Organisciak, K. Matusiak.
Conceptual Modeling of Similarities and Duplication in Large-Scale Digital Libraries
2020Digital Humanities 2020, Alliance for Digital Humanities Organization, Ottawa
Authors: M. Ryan, L. Gypin, K. Matusiak, B. M. Schmidt, P. Organisciak.
MOODs: Identifying Outlier Passages and Texts in the Legislative Process
20206th International Conference on Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA/Online
Authors: P. Organisciak, N. Pares.
Including Phrases in Bags of Words
2018Uncamp 2018, HathiTrust Research Center, Berkeley
Authors: P. Organisciak.
Asking the Right Way: Design Interventions for Microtasks
2018The sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Quebec City, Canada
Authors: P. Organisciak, J. Teevan, M. B. Twidale.
Personalized Human Computation
2013Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2013), AAAI, Palm Springs, CA
Authors: P. Organisciak, J. Teevan, S. Dumais, R. C. Miller, A. Kalai.
Text Analysis for me Too: An embeddable text analysis widget
2009Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities, SDH/SEMI
Authors: P. Organisciak, G. Rockwell, S. Sinclair, S. Ruecker.
TADA Research Evaluation Exchange: Winning 2008 Submissions
2009Digital Humanities 2009, University of Maryland, USA
Authors: S. Sinclair, D. Beacon, S. Brown, J. S. Downie, C. Fiorentino, P. Juola, P. Organisciak, G. Rockwell, S. Schreibman, K. Uszkalo.
Products
Research Websites and Tools
- Open Creativity Scoring (OCS) -- https://openscoring.du.edu
- (2207 unique users, June 2020-August 2022)
- SaDDL -- https://saddl.du.edu
- Bookworm -- https://bookworm.htrc.illinois.edu
- Bookworm Playground - https://bookworm.htrc.illinois.edu/app/
Software
- HTRC Features Reader - http://github.com/htrc/htrc-feature-reader - A mature, long-developed library for working with non-consumptive book data.
- Open Scoring - https://github.com/massivetexts/open-scoring - Tools for creativity scoring.
Teaching
Teaching Experience
Courses
LIS 4015 -- User and Access Services
3 credit hours (in-person). 2 credit hours (online).
LIS 4220 -- Data Curation
3 credit hours.
LIS 4235 -- Scripting for Large Databases
4 credit hours. Course materials available at https://github.com/organisciak/Scripting-Course.
LIS 4700DH -- Digital Humanities
3 credit hours.
590TXT, LIS4991TXT -- Text Mining
Course materials available at https://github.com/organisciak/Text-Mining-Course (Alt metrics: 98 stars, 29 forks). Originally taught at University of Illinois, this course is only taught at DU as an independent study, LIS 4991.
Directed Student Learning
Dissertation, Committee Member
- Matthew Durward . "Audience Specific Text Recommendation for English Language Learners" University of Canterbury. (2021-)
- Jill Talley. "Paving pathways for success: The role of transition models and disability services in postsecondary education for students with disabilities" (2021)
- Paige Alfonso. "Exploring the relations between identity and digital media activity processes: A mixed-methods psychological investigation into connective action" (2019-2020)
Capstone, Committee Chair
- Michele Newman. "A Taxonomy of Game Mechanics" (2022)
- Sarah Beals. "Crowdsourced Data and Visualizing Theme Park Wait Times" (2020)
- Matthew Durward. "Constructing a Platform to Assist English Language Learners with Film Selection" (2020)
- Kevin Stevens. "Historiography as a Signature Pedagogical Approach to Information Literacy Instruction" (2020)
- Rita Zhang. "A Framework of Active Exploratory Book Recommendation" (2020)
- Lee Howick. "Faculty Opinions and Use of Open Access Publishing at the University of Denver" (2020)
- Nicolas Pares. The Effects of Research Data Management Services: Associating the Data Curation Lifecycle with Open Research Output" (2020)
- Vince Garin. "How Digital Humanities Challenges Publishing and Academic Labor Paradigms" (2019)
- Micah Saxton. "Best Practices for Topic Modeling," Library & Information Science. (2018)
- Sheena Young. "Library Thunderdome: Fake News vs. Information Literacy" (2018)
Capstone, Committee Member
- Summer Shetenhelm. "Copyright Statements in Plains to Peaks Collective Digital Collections" (2019)
- Fatih Gunaydin. "Assessment of Current Research Data Services in Terms of Technical Services" (2019)
Thesis, Committee Chair
- Nicolas Pares. "Human-Centered Search Process: A Grounded Theory Study on the Modern Search Experience" (2022)
Non-Credit Instruction Taught
Guest Lecture
- Topic: "Introduction to Docker for Data Curation". Data Curation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Allen Renear. (Recorded for online course, 2018).
- Topic: "Usability Design". Digital Libraries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, J. Stephen Downie.
Guest Lecture, DU
- Topic: "Digital Humanities", Organization of Information, University of Denver. Krystyna Matusiak (2017-18, recorded for online course 2019-)
- Topic: "Scholarly and Professional Communication", Foundations of Library and Information Science, University of Denver. Mary Stansbury (2017)
Faculty Development Activities Attended
OTL Faculty Workshop or Training, "Teaching@DU Short Course," Office of Teaching and Learning, Denver, CO, NF. (August 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017).
Professional Service
University Service
Committee Member, Open Access Fund. (June 2021 - Present).
Professional Memberships
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. (November 2013 - Present).
American Society for Information Science and Technology. (2011 - Present).
Association for Computing Machinery. (2011 - Present).
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. (2010 - Present).
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. (2009 - 2013).
Canadian Association for Information Science. (2009 - 2011).
Committee Chair
Committee Chair, iSchools Conference Student Symposium Chair, Barcelona. (July 1, 2022 - March 2023).
Committee Member
Committee Member, Program Committee of Digital Humanities Workshop (DHW) 2021. (2021).
Committee Member, JCDL 2019 Outreach Committee. (May 2018 - June 2019).
Associate Chair, iConference 2019 Program Committee, College Park, Maryland. (June 2018 - February 2019).
Committee Member, HCOMP Program Committee. (January 2018 - October 2018).
Committee Member, JCDL Program Committee. (January 2018 - July 2018).
Guest Editor
Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue on "Conceptual Models of the Sociotechnical", Journal of Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (2021-2022).
Editorial Review Board Member
Editorial Review Board Member, Przegląd Biblioteczny, Warsaw. (August 2021 - Present).
Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Open Humanities Data. (July 2015 - Present).
Officer
President, Special Interest Group on Digital Libraries. (October 2020 - October 2021).
Conference Organizer
Organizer, First Digital Front Range Symposium, Digital Scholarship in the Front Range, Denver, Colorado. (May 5, 2018).
Reviewer, Grant Panelist
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C. (August 2018).
Reviewer, Conference Paper
Since 2017.
Association for Information Science and Technology. (2010 - 2019).
Digital Humanities. (2009 - 2021).
WebConf. (November 2018).
iConference. (September 2017 - October 2017).
Human-Centered Data Science and Social Computing. (October 2, 2017).
Reviewer, Journal Article
Since 2017.
- Creativity Research Journal (2023-)
- Behavioral Research Methods (2022-)
- Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (2022).
- Advances in Cognitive Psychology (2022).
- Digital Humanities Quarterly. (April 2022).
- International Journal for Digital Libraries. (March 2022 -- August 2022).
- Data in Brief. (January 2022 - March 2022).
- Journal of Open Humanities Data. (January 2022).
- Symmetry. (January 2022).
- Electronics (June 2022).
- Mathematics. (December 2021).
- Applied Sciences. (August 2021 - November 2021).
- Entropy. (October 2021).
- Telematics and Informatics. (June 2019).
- Transactions on Information Systems. (October 2017).
Consulting
Higher Education, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. (May 2022 - July 2022).
Working with Dr. Selcuk Acar on developing a pilot of methods for scoring originality and elaboration in figural (i.e., drawn) tests of creativity.
Higher Education, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada. (August 2021).
Working with Dr. Pier-Luc de Chantel to develop an API to Open Creativity Scoring, making that system's scoring methods available to use in other tools and websites, such as Qualtrics.