Cirss - Research Areas Collection and Curation E-Science Digital Humanities Socio-technical Data Analytics



The GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) conducts research on information problems that impact scientific and scholarly inquiry. Our projects and activities focus on how digital information can advance the work of scientists and scholars, the curation of research data, and the integration of information within and across disciplines and research communities.

Cirss - Research Areas

Recent Publications

Blake, C., Stanton, J., & Saxenian, A. (2013, February) Filling the Workforce gap in Data Science and Data Analytics, Workshop at the iConference, Fort Worth TX.
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Choudhury, S., Palmer, C., Baker, K., & DiLauro, T. (2013, January). Levels of services and curation for high-functioning data. 8th International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Chao, T. (2013, January). Describing the quality of research datasets across disciplines: a comparative study. 8th International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Marlino, M., Kelly, K., Mayernik, M., Allard, S., Tenopir, C., Palmer, C., & Varvel, V. (2013, January). Model development for scientific data curation education. 8th International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Weber, N., Thomer, A., Mayernik, M., Dattore, R., Zaihua, J., & Worley, S. (2013, January). The product and system specificities of measuring impact: Indicators of use in research data archives. 8th International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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News

May 15
Karen Wickett receives Berner-Nash Memorial Award
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March 13
Research Showcase 2013
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March 13
Carole Palmer to present on priorities for data curation research and education
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March 12
Identifying Claims in Social Science Literature Poster wins Honorable Mention at iConference 2013
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Events

Upcoming:

E-Research Roundtable
Ad hoc ERRT and CIRSS Seminar sessions will be scheduled through summer.  Details posted shortly.  Regular sessions will resume in Fall 2013.
Leaders: TBD
June 01, TBD - 

Past:

E-Research Roundtable
Information Retrieval and Text Mining Meet e-Research: Towards a Researcher's Workbench for e-Research
Leaders: ChengXiang Zhai, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, affiliated with GSLIS, the Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Department of Statistics
April 24, 12:30 - 2:00
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CIRSS Seminar
CyberGIS and the Future of Geographic Information Technologies
Leaders: Shaowen Wang, Associate Professor of Geography & Geographic Information Science at Illinois, Director and Founder of the Cyberinfrastructure & Geospatial Information Laboratory (CIGI)
April 19, 4:00 - 5:00
126 LIS