The AIAI Data Collective (Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Data Collective) is dedicated to modeling best practices for contextual, reflexive, and ethical data collection, documentation, storage, and sharing of machine learning datasets. The AIAI Data Collective is part of the AIAI Network, an intentionally interdisciplinary network of Atlanta-based researchers investigating how to enlist AI ethically, equitably, and in the service of justice.
Dr. Bailey Betik designed the website for the AIAI Data Collective, which hopes to feature datasets in the style of another ECDS project, the Post45 Data Collective.
ECDS continues to partner with the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training & Education Center (NETEC) to create and maintain an online resource repository that provides free access to a database of up-to-date education and training resources including webinars, online courses, research articles, and printable posters that help train and prepare health care workers, public health professionals, and U.S. health care facilities for emerging special pathogens. NETEC is comprised of faculty and staff from Emory University’s School of Medicine, the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine, and the New York Health and Hospitals Corporation, Bellevue Hospital Center.
The Center for Transmission of Airborne Pathogens (C-TAP) at Emory University is an interdisciplinary group that combines expertise across disciplines to understand the spread of respiratory viruses and bacteria between people. ECDS partnered with C-TAP to build a website for the team to showcase their work and engage with the public and other researchers. Digital Publication Specialist Dr. Bailey Betik designed their new site, which offers a snapshot of the projects being undertaken, ways in which the public and commercial partners can get involved, and a forum for contacting C-TAP researchers to get information about how germs spread through the air and simple strategies to keep yourself healthy.
The Graduate Community of Digital Scholars (GCDS)—a joint initiative of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship—is a one year program offering structured support, connections to training opportunities, and access to funding for students developing digital or public-facing dissertations.
Participants meet monthly as a cohort to share work in progress, receive feedback from the program team, and hear from invited experts on topics relevant to the group as a whole. Benefits include access to newly-developed ECDS training modules in digital skills and methods and eligibility for funding to support project development.
An interdisciplinary team from ECDS is partnering with researchers at the University of Bonn (Germany) for the development of the OpenWorld Atlanta (OWA) project. This collaboration is funded by a $30,000 grant from the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning.
OpenWorld Atlanta (OWA) is an interactive research project using digital tools to collect, analyze, and disseminate data about Atlanta’s history. Our collaboration pairs the Emory OpenWorld Atlanta team (Dr. Alexander Cors, Dr. Bailey Betik, & faculty partner Dr. Christina Crawford) with University of Bonn pedagogy experts to create curriculum and teaching modules around Atlantan geography and history. The Emory-Bonn team will develop OWA as a resource for research and teaching, centering public scholarship for audiences in and outside academia.
To further develop OWA, the Emory-Bonn collaboration will create a public-facing open educational resource (OER) with tutorials, lesson plans, and instructional resources on a responsive website, improving usability for students, researchers, and community members. Our partnership will explore Atlanta’s urban geographical history, its social structure, and transformation over time, while also creating and publishing adaptable best practices and examples for digital urban history projects worldwide.
In Spring 2023, ECDS specialists Bailey Betik, Joanna Mundy, and Megan Slemons hosted a digital pedagogy showcase for the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence’s Teaching Toolkit Fair. ECDS led demonstrations of digital teaching tools Scholarblogs, ArcGIS, & OpenTour Builder, as well as held a question-and-answer session about digital storytelling assignments.
