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Karen Wickett
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Karen M. Wickett is a post-doctoral research associate at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in the logical and conceptual foundations of information organization and access. She holds degrees in Library and Information Science and Mathematics.

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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. (2012, December). Representing identity and equivalence for scientific data. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Read more

Wickett, K. M., Thomer, A., Sacchi, S., Baker, K. S., & Dubin, D. (2012, March/April). What dataset descriptions actually describe: Using systematic assertion model to connect theory and practice. Poster presented at the 2012 ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, New Orleans, LA. Retrieved April 30, 2012 from, http://hdl.handle.net/2142/30470 Read more

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CIRSS Projects

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

Data Conservancy
PI: Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University; Co-PI: Carole Palmer
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation


CIRSS News

May 15 2013
Karen Wickett receives Berner-Nash Memorial Award
Post-doctoral Research Associate Karen Wickett recently received the Berner-Nash Memorial Award for her  dissertation, “Collection/Item Metadata Relationships”. The Berner-Nash Memorial Award is presented in recognition of outstandin...

March 13 2013
Research Showcase 2013
On Friday March 29, from 12:00PM - 5:00PM, CIRSS faculty and students will join GSLIS colleagues to present and share their research in a series of posters, presentations, and demonstrations. University of Illinois Vice Chancellor for Research Peter ...

December 04 2012
Karen Wickett to present at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Dr. Karen Wickett will present "Representing Identity and Equivalence for Scientific Data" at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Taking place December 3-7 2012 in San Francisco, California, the AGU Fall Meeting is the larges...

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CIRSS Events

November 30 2012
"Representing Identity and Equivalence for Scientific Data," from AGU 2012
To be presented as part of a session on "Data Stewardship, Citation With Confidence, and Preparing Next Generation of Data Managers," at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 3-7 December 2012 in San Francisco.

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November 07 2012
Collection Examples for Europeana Data Model
We will discussing example collections for modeling collections from the IMLS Digital Collections and Content aggregation in the Europeana Data Model. We are hoping to use these examples to show the benefits integrating collections and collection descript ...

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 ...

April 11 2012
Recap of Research Data Access and Preservation Summit
Wickett and Thomer will discuss the recent ASIS&T RDAP Summit held in New Orleans on March 22 and 23. We will discuss the major themes around data management that were discussed at the summit, including interoperability, policy development, strategies ...

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