Academic Appointments

Optical Materials

Education

Awards and Grants

• Jan 2007-June 2008 NSF Collabroative Research: Interdisciplinary Virtual Labs for Undergraduate Education in the
  NSDL MatDL Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• Sept 2005-Aug 2009   NSF  NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway    PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• July 2004-July 2005   NSF  Materials Digital Library Supplement Funding Request    PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• Sept 2003-Aug 2005   NSF   Materials Digital Library: MatDL.org    PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• June 2003-July 2004   NIST   An MSEL Materials Repository    PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• Sept 2001-Aug 2003   NSF Green’s Functions Research & Education Enhancement Network   Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• Jan 2002-Dec 2003   NIST   “Information Management and Multidisciplinary Scientific Working Groups   PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• Jan 2001-Jan 2002   Ohio Dept of Development,   Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials   
  Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo (One of 30 PIs).
• Jan 2000-Jan 2001   OBR Research Challenge A Model for Sharing Multidisciplinary Scientific Research   Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• Jan 1998-Dec 99   OBR Research Challenge Information Gateway for Storage, Transfer, and Utility of Scientific Information   
  PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• Oct 1999   NIST   Development of Green’s Functions Library-Generation 2 for Advanced Materials and Collaboration   
  PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• 1996-2000   NIST   Information Dynamics in the ALCOM/NIST Phase Separation/Heterogeneous Structures Project   PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• Sept 1998 – Aug 2000   NSF   School Based Remote Experiments on the Web   Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.
• Sept 1994 – Aug 1997   NSF   Science and Math on the Net   Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.

Teaching

• A&S 4/5/70095, BSCI 4/5/70195 & CS 4/5/79995 Introduction to Bioinformatics
• A&S 4/5/70095, LSCI Law across the Disciplines

Primary Research Interests

Scientific information management and dissemination, Multidisciplinary scientific research repositories, Human and automated scientific metadata generation, Scientific information classification and thesaurus, Electronic scientific communication.

Selected Publications

• Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S., Krafft, D.B., & Tandy, R.J. (2007). NSDL MatDL: Adding context to bridge materials e-research
  and e-education. In L. Vovacs, N. Fuhr, and C. Meghini (Eds.), Proceeding of the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Techonologhy for Digital Libraries (ECDL) (pp. 499-500). Springer-Verlag.
• Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S., Ruscheinski, J., & Bisom, D. (2007). Cooperative collection building in NSDL MatDL Pathway through Ivia Data Fountains. Proceedings of the 7th ACM>IEEE-CS Joint Conferences on Digital Libraries, (p. 473). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).
• Bartolo, L.M., Krane, M.J.M., & Powell, A.C. (2007) NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway, Transport Phenomena, & TMS Partnership. Spotligh article published on Materials Technology @ TMS Education Community: Front Page.
  Available at http://materialstechnology.tms.org/TECarticle.asp?articleID=905
• Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S. (2006). NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway: Hub for materials education and research. Proceedigns of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 69th Annual Meeting. Austin, TX USA.
• Bartolo, L.M., & Lowe, C.S., Glotzer, S.C., Iacovella, C.R. (2006) Development of a wiki-based, expert community-driven
  nanosystem vocabulary. Proceedings of the Dublin Core Conference Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.
• Bartolo, L.M., & Lowe, C.S., Glotzer, S.C., Iacovella, C.R. (2006) Scientific research groups, digital libraries, & education:
  Metadata from nanoscale simulation code. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (p. 348). Chapel Hill, NC USA. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
• Powell, A.C., & Bartolo, L.M. (2006) The Transport Phenomena Archive on teh NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway. Journal of Materials Education Vol. 28 (1): 91-98.
• Bartolo, L.M., Gloter, S.C., Lowe, C.S., Powell, A.C., Sadoway, D.R., Warren, J.A., Tewary, V.K., & Rajan, K. (2006). NSF NSDL Materials Digital Library & MSE education. Journal of Materials Education Vol. 28 (1): 21-26.
• Bartolo, L.M., COle, T.W., Giersch, S., & Wright, M. (2005). NSF/NSDL Workshop on Scientific Markup Languages. D-Lib Magazine, Vol 11(11) Available: doi:10.1045/november2005-bartolo
• Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S. Sadoway, D.R., Powell, A.C., & Glotzer, S.C. (2005). NSDL MatDL: Exporing digital library roles. D-Lib Magazine, Vol 11(3) Available at: www.dlib.org/dlib/march05/bartolo/03bartolo.html
• Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S., Feng, L.Z., & Patter, B. (2004). MatDL: Intergrating digital libraries into scientific practice. Journal of Digital Information: Special Issue Digital Repositories, Vol. 5 issue 3 Article 297 2004-08-23.
  Available at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/jodi-151/121

Selected Presentations

• Bartolo, L.M. (2006, Octorber). Materials Research Groups, Digital Libraries, & Education: Metadata from Nanoscale Simulation Code. Presented at the 20th International CODATA Conference. Beijing, China.
  Abstract available at http://www.codata.org/archives/2006/06conf/abstracts/B7/bartolo.htm
• Bartolo, L.M, (2006, October). Facilitating Connections between Materials Research and Education. Presented as part of the Workshop on Material Data/Metadata Markup - Intergration and Syndication of Material Databases (Co-Chairs: Laura Bartolo & Toshihiro Ashino) at the 20th International CODATA Conference. Beijing, China.
• Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S., Glotzer, S.C., & Iacovella, C.R. (2006, October). Building Collaborative Tools on the NSDL Data Repository: Possibilities with the MatDL Soft Matter Wiki. Presented as part of a panel at the National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. USA.

Professional Affiliations

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Library Association (ALA)
• American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
  • Classification Research (CR)
  • NORASIS
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
• International Liquid Crystal Society
• Materials Research Society(MRS)
• Materials Property Data Markup Language Working Group (MatML)
  • Steering Committe
• The Minerals Information Society (AMS)
• The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS)