Carole L. Palmer
Director, Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
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Palmer is Director of CIRSS and a Professor at GSLIS. Her research investigates problems in scientific and scholarly information work, development of large-scale digital research collections, and barriers to interdisciplinary inquiry. She currently leads a team studying data curation needs across disciplines and the re-use value of long-tail research data and a team studying aggregation and access for digital cultural heritage collections. She has been leading education initiatives in data curation since 2005. Her current projects include: Site Based Data Curation at Yellowstone National Park, Data Curation Education in Research Centers, Digital Collections and Content.
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CIRSS Publications
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. Read more 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. Read more Stanton, J., Palmer, C., Blake, C., Farmer, L., & Allard, S. (2012, February). Brainstorming Data Science at i-Schools. - iConference 2012, Toronto, Canada. Retrieved from http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/alternative_events Read more
CIRSS Projects
Site-Based Data Curation at Yellowstone National Park (SBDC) PI: Carole Palmer, Co-PI: Bruce Fouke, Ann Rodman (Yellowstone), Sayeed Choudhury (JHU) Funding Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services Digital Collections and Content (DCC) PI: Carole Palmer Funding Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services Opening History PI: Carole Palmer Funding Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services
CIRSS News
June 03 2013
Carole Palmer delivers inaugural Ed Mignon Distinguished Lecture in Information Science
CIRSS Director Carole Palmer delivered the inaugurual Ed Mignon Distinguished Lecture in Information Science at the Information School at the University of Washington in May. The new annual lecture aims to inspire intellectual thinking and fost...
May 28 2013
A Model for Providing Web 2.0 Services to Cultural Heritage Institutions: The IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study in D-Lib
An article by Jacob Jett, Megan Senseney and Carole Palmer reporting the findings of the IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study has been published in this month's issue of D-Lib Magazine: The Flickr Feasibility Study, which was launched by the ...
March 13 2013
Carole Palmer to present on priorities for data curation research and education
Professor of Library and Information Science and CIRSS Director, Carole Palmer, will deliver a presentation titled, "Setting Priorities for Data Curation Research and Education", at the University of North Carlolina at Chapel Hill School of...
Carole Palmer delivers inaugural Ed Mignon Distinguished Lecture in Information Science
CIRSS Director Carole Palmer delivered the inaugurual Ed Mignon Distinguished Lecture in Information Science at the Information School at the University of Washington in May. The new annual lecture aims to inspire intellectual thinking and fost...
May 28 2013
A Model for Providing Web 2.0 Services to Cultural Heritage Institutions: The IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study in D-Lib
An article by Jacob Jett, Megan Senseney and Carole Palmer reporting the findings of the IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study has been published in this month's issue of D-Lib Magazine: The Flickr Feasibility Study, which was launched by the ...
March 13 2013
Carole Palmer to present on priorities for data curation research and education
Professor of Library and Information Science and CIRSS Director, Carole Palmer, will deliver a presentation titled, "Setting Priorities for Data Curation Research and Education", at the University of North Carlolina at Chapel Hill School of...
CIRSS Events
October 10 2012
Working through Significance 2.0: A guide to assessing the significance of collections
We will walk through this 2009 document from the Collections Council of Australia, available at http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/publications/significance2-0/ . From the introduction: "Significance 2.0 outlines the theory, practice and many app ...October 03 2012
Informatics at its logical conclusion: how do we educate the current generation, and in what?
In the last 5 years, discipline-based informatics (e.g. geo, bio-, astro-) have demonstrably changed research practices in increasingly data intensive science pursuits. Even recognition and reward structures are broadening (e.g. the new data citation metr ...November 09 2011
IMLS DCC and the Europeana Data Model: Convergences and Next Steps
IMLS DCC is collaborating with Europeana, a massive international digital cultural heritage aggregation. This session will be a conversation about next steps toward meeting the challenges to interoperability between these two aggregations, particula ...October 14 2011
IMLS DCC Contribution to the Digital Library of America Beta Sprint
We will present highlights from our contribution to the Digital Public Library of American (DPLA) Beta Sprint, an initiative to solicit models, prototypes, tools, and interfaces that demonstrate how the DPLA might index and provide access to a wide range ...
Working through Significance 2.0: A guide to assessing the significance of collections
We will walk through this 2009 document from the Collections Council of Australia, available at http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/publications/significance2-0/ . From the introduction: "Significance 2.0 outlines the theory, practice and many app ...October 03 2012
Informatics at its logical conclusion: how do we educate the current generation, and in what?
In the last 5 years, discipline-based informatics (e.g. geo, bio-, astro-) have demonstrably changed research practices in increasingly data intensive science pursuits. Even recognition and reward structures are broadening (e.g. the new data citation metr ...November 09 2011
IMLS DCC and the Europeana Data Model: Convergences and Next Steps
IMLS DCC is collaborating with Europeana, a massive international digital cultural heritage aggregation. This session will be a conversation about next steps toward meeting the challenges to interoperability between these two aggregations, particula ...October 14 2011
IMLS DCC Contribution to the Digital Library of America Beta Sprint
We will present highlights from our contribution to the Digital Public Library of American (DPLA) Beta Sprint, an initiative to solicit models, prototypes, tools, and interfaces that demonstrate how the DPLA might index and provide access to a wide range ...
Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
Graduate School of Library and Information
Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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