Category: Employment Opportunities

The Drexel Metadata Research Center (MRC) is seeking an undergraduate researcher to contribute to an applied image analysis project. This project is part of a larger NSF-funded initiative called the Institute for Data Driven Dynamical Design (ID4). The institute has an overarching goal of revolutionizing the design and fabrication of advanced active and dynamic materials by unlocking new scientific insights from underutilized digital data repositories.

Project Title: YAMZ Crowdsourced Vocabulary Builder: HCI Refresh
Seeking: undergrad
Opportunity Type: volunteer
Time commitment: 10-15 hours per week
Application Deadline: Friday Dec 20, 2025

Description

This project (at the Metadata Research Center) is looking for students with HCI skills to help us modernize the UX of a crowdsourced, domain-agnostic online vocabulary building tool that is 10 years old and has important application into digital preservation and cross-domain metadata standards. Located at yamz.net, the YAMZ tool runs in the Drexel IT cloud over a stack consisting of Ubuntu, Python, Postgres, Flask, and Bootstrap. We are looking for someone to work with our users to help us generally to modernize the look and feel of YAMZ, improve browsing and searching, and add new functionality, such as predictive typing, term versioning, inter-term linking, and the ability to add visual examples rather than just text. If you are interested please contact mrk335@drexel.edu. We are also looking for a YAMZ software engineer.