Allen H. Renear
Professor, Interim Dean
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Allen H. Renear conducts research on formal ontologies (including metadata) in science and the humanities and is currently exploring strategies for using these ontologies to improve scientific communication and publishing.
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CIRSS Publications
Wickett, K., Sacchi, S., Dubin, D., & Renear, A. (2012, October ). Identifying Content and Levels of Representation in Scientific Data. ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Retrieved from http://www.asis.org/asist2012/abstracts/199.html Read more Wickett, K. M., Urban, R. J., & Renear, A. H. (2012). Towards a Logical Form for Descriptive Metadata [poster]. Proceedings of the 2012 iConference (pp. 574-575). ACM. doi:10.1145/2132176.2132294 Read more Renear, A., Munoz, T., & Walter, K. (2011, November). Towards a New Agenda for Humanities Data Curation. Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, Baltimore, MD. Retrieved from http://www.diglib.org/forums/2011forum/schedule/towards-a-new-agenda-for-humanities-data-curation/ Read more
CIRSS Projects
Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) PI: Allen Renear Funding Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services Libraries: Transformation of the Humanities PI: Allen Renear; Project PI: Sayeed Choudhury, JHU; co-PI: Gregory Crane, Tufts Funding Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services
CIRSS News
October 22 2012
CIRSS to make strong showing at ASIS&T 2012
CIRSS Faculty, Affiliated Faculty, PhD Students, and Staff will be making yet another strong showing at ASIS&T's annual meeting. Taking place October 26-30, 2012 the ASIS&T Annual Meeting is a primary venue for disseminating researc...
August 23 2012
Allen Renear to Deliver Opening Keynote at NISO Forum
GSLIS Interim Dean and affiliated CIRSS faculty member Allen Renear, will deliver the opening keynote at the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Forum: Tracking it Back to the Source: Managing and Citing Research Data.Taking place Sept...
June 11 2012
Final Report Published for Long-running IMLS Data Curation Education Program Grant
"Centuries of Knowledge: Graduate School of Library and Information Science Data Curation Education Program" (DCEP), one of our most successful and long-running grant projects, concluded this December, and the final report is now available ...
CIRSS to make strong showing at ASIS&T 2012
CIRSS Faculty, Affiliated Faculty, PhD Students, and Staff will be making yet another strong showing at ASIS&T's annual meeting. Taking place October 26-30, 2012 the ASIS&T Annual Meeting is a primary venue for disseminating researc...
August 23 2012
Allen Renear to Deliver Opening Keynote at NISO Forum
GSLIS Interim Dean and affiliated CIRSS faculty member Allen Renear, will deliver the opening keynote at the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Forum: Tracking it Back to the Source: Managing and Citing Research Data.Taking place Sept...
June 11 2012
Final Report Published for Long-running IMLS Data Curation Education Program Grant
"Centuries of Knowledge: Graduate School of Library and Information Science Data Curation Education Program" (DCEP), one of our most successful and long-running grant projects, concluded this December, and the final report is now available ...
CIRSS Events
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 ...September 07 2011
Meditations on the Logical Form of a Metadata
Open linked data and semantic technologies promise support for information integration and inferencing. But taking advantage of this support often requires that the information currently carried by ordinary "colloquial" metadata records be made ...September 24 2010
The Modifiability Puzzle
We summarize presentations given at ASIS&T 2008 (Allen Renear, Karen Wickett, Dave Dubin) and Balisage 2009 and 2010 (Renear and Wickett) that analyze problems in our commonsense understanding of digital objects. The discussion of these problems began ...April 15 2009
NASA EOS Data Levels and Traditional Text Editing
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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 ...September 07 2011
Meditations on the Logical Form of a Metadata
Open linked data and semantic technologies promise support for information integration and inferencing. But taking advantage of this support often requires that the information currently carried by ordinary "colloquial" metadata records be made ...September 24 2010
The Modifiability Puzzle
We summarize presentations given at ASIS&T 2008 (Allen Renear, Karen Wickett, Dave Dubin) and Balisage 2009 and 2010 (Renear and Wickett) that analyze problems in our commonsense understanding of digital objects. The discussion of these problems began ...April 15 2009
NASA EOS Data Levels and Traditional Text Editing
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