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Lynne Howarth

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Professor EmeritaUniversity of Toronto

Lynne Howarth

Professor Emerita

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University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Supervision signals

Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 SSHRC), most recently in 2015.

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Research

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Latest funding

Show, tell, bridge: the affordance of objects in negotiating individual and group identity
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$138,237
Memory, meaning-making and collections
SSHRC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$96,528
Creating pathways to memory: enhancing life histories through category clusters and metadata-rich respositories
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
$104,682

All 5 grants and awards

Show, tell, bridge: the affordance of objects in negotiating individual and group identity

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Howarth, Lynne C.

Keywords: negotiating identity; objects as affordances; community-building; self-narrative; collective narrative

$138,237

Memory, meaning-making and collections

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Krmpotich, Cara A.

Keywords: Aboriginal heritage; memory; intercultural histories; seniors; embodied knowledge

$96,528

Creating pathways to memory: enhancing life histories through category clusters and metadata-rich respositories

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Howarth, Lynne C.

Keywords: information categorization; visualizing categories; category clusters; information seeking behaviours of individuals with early-stage dementia; computer-supported reminiscence; metadata-enabled resources for enhancing memory

$104,682

Connecting metadata-enabled multilingual resources across cultural domains

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Howarth, Lynne C.

Keywords: metadata schemes; metadata applications; metadata mapping; categorization models; ontologies; taxonomies; knowledge organization; knowledge repositories; multilingual data; multilingual resources

$120,711

Modelling a 'human understandable' metalevel ontology for enhancing information seeking on the world wide web

Principal investigatorSSHRC1999Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Howarth, Lynne

Keywords: Metadata models; terminological ontology; information search and retrieval systems

$85,060

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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