Faculty, students, and staff from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois will participate in this week’s ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Highlights include a preconference anniversary
event featuring Professor Emeritus Boyd Rayward as the keynote speaker. GSLIS also will host an
alumni reception at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, October 29, at the Pier 5 Hotel Harbor Club to provide an opportunity to network with GSLIS faculty, students, and alumni and learn more about faculty position openings, research, and academic programs.
PRECONFERENCE
The Information Society and the Future of the History of Information Science
75th Anniversary Keynote Address
W. Boyd Rayward
Linda C. Smith
23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop
Joseph Tennis and Kathryn La Barre, co-chairs
Complications in climate data variable naming
Nicholas Weber, Andrea Thomer, and Gary Strand
Description Is a Drag: Issues in Vocabulary Control
K.R. Roberto
Internal cohesion and external separation
Dave Dubin
Special interest groups 1959 - 1980: Uneasy détente or collegial cold war?
Kathryn La Barre
The 8th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG SI)
A Familiar Face? A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's “Ms. Dewey”
Miriam Sweeney
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Unreliable and Uncertain Annotators: Evaluating Rater Quality and Rating Difficulty in Online Annotation Activities
Peter Organisciak, Miles Efron, Katrina Fenlon and Megan Senseney
Value and Context in Data Use: Domain Analysis Revisited
Nicholas Weber, Karen Baker, Andrea Thomer, Tiffany Chao and Carole Palmer
Identifying Content and Levels of Representation in Scientific Data
Karen Wickett, Simone Sacchi, David Dubin and Allen Renear
Tooling the Aggregator's Workbench: Metadata Visualization through Statistical Text Analysis
Katrina Fenlon, Miles Efron and Peter Organisciak
Emerging Trends in Metadata Research
Heather Lea Moulaison, Susan Rathbun-Grubb, June Abbas, Jane Greenberg, Kathryn La Barre, Eva Méndez Rodríguez, Erik Mitchell and Alenka ©auperl
Library and Information Science in the Big Data Era: Funding, Projects, and Future
Vincent Lariviere, Richard Marciano, Michael Khoo and Stephen Downie
The Other as a Research Agenda for Information Science
Kathryn La Barre, Michael Buckland, Lai Ma and Charles van den Heuvel
PANEL PRESENTATION
ASIS&T Online Education Initiatives: Driving the Future
Diane Rasmussen, Linda C. Smith, Jacob A. Ratliff and Julia Khanova
POSTER SESSION
Using Bootstrapping to Identify Protein Locations
Catherine Blake and Wu Zheng
Towards a Data Literate Citizenry
Michael Twidale, Jon Gant and Catherine Blake
Enhancing Cultural Heritage Collections by Supporting and Analyzing Participation in Flickr
Jacob Jett, Megan Senseney and Carole Palmer
Completeness, Coverage & Equivalence in Scientific Data Records
Andrea Thomer, Karen Baker, Simone Sacchi and David Dubin
Combined Methods, Thick Descriptions: Languages of Collaboration on Github
Nicholas Weber
The Data-at-Risk Initiative: Analyzing the Current State of Endangered Scientific Data
Angela P. Murillo, Cheryl Thompson, Nico Carver, W. Davenport Robertson, Jane Greenberg and William Anderson
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Cindy Ashwill
Assistant Dean for Communications
Managing Editor, Library Trends and GSLIS Occasional Papers
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Mailing Address: 501 E. Daniel Street, MC-493
Champaign, IL 61820-6211
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