Center for Data and Search Informatics (DSI)


Beth Plale, Director
215 Lindley Hall; IUB
(812) 855-4373
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DSI is an Indiana University School of Informatics sponsored center created in 2007. The mission of DSI is to conduct research in the use, analysis, archival, preservation, and understanding of large-scale and complex data. This includes analysis of Internet and computer network behavior, data mining, artificial intelligence for increased understanding of data, information retrieval, human interaction with large-scale data, provenance and metadata for data preservation, e-Science cyberinfrastructuresoftware architecture, information systems and indexing for the representation of new kinds of data, and information and data visualization.

The second mission of DSI is to prepare graduate and undergraduate students for research and industry careers in this promising area.

The realization of DSI’s mission includes the following activities in which DSI is engaged:

• DSI affiliated faculty carry out high quality, leading-edge research to advance state-of-the-art in large-scale and complex data.

• DSI is committed to engagement with other faculty and units at Indiana University by the contributionof technology research prototypes, ideas, and abstractions that can address pressing social and technical problems.

• DSI is committed to collaborative interdisciplinary research within IU and with the national and international research community.

• DSI is committed to developing relevant educational programs.

• DSI engages with national and local industry leaders in the technology transfer of research products.