2018-11-15: LANL Internship Report
Los Alamos National Laboratory On May 27 I landed in sunny Sante Fe, New Mexico to start my 6 month internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team under the guidance of Herbert Van de Sompel and WSDL alumnus Martin Klein . Work Accomplished A majority of my time was used to work on the Scholarly Orphans project, which is a joint project between LANL and ODU, sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation . This project explores from an institution perspective how it can discover, capture, and archive scholarly artifacts that an institution's researcher deposits in various productivity portals. After months of working on the project, Martin Klein showcased the Scholarly Orphans pipeline at TPDL 2018 . Scholarly Orphans pipeline diagram A Web-Centric Pipeline for Archiving Scholarly Artifacts from Martin Klein My main task for this pipeline was to create and manage two components: the artifact tra...