GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) University of Illinois

Publications

2013

Conference Papers

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.
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.

Conference Posters

Chao, T. (2013, January). Describing the quality of research datasets across disciplines: a comparative study. 8th International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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.
Weber, N. (2013, January). The tail and the telling: Distribtuion of NSF funding 2008-2011. 8th International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Conference Workshops

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.

2012

Journal Articles

Smallheiser, N.R., Lugli, G., Hooriyah, S.R., Torvik, V.I., Turecki, G., & Dwivedi, Y. (2012). MicroRNA Expression is Down-Regulated and Reorganized in Prefrontal Cortex of Depressed Suicide Subjects. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e33201. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033201

Conference Papers

AbdelRahman, S.E. & Blake, C. (2012) UIUC_RuleBased: Sbdlrhmn: A rule-based human interpretation system for semantic textual similarity task. Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012: Semantic Evaluation Exercises), June 7-8, Montreal, Canada.
Blake, C. (2012, September ). Using Secondary Information to Inform Public Policy. Oxford Internet Institute's Internet, Politics, Policy 2012, Oxford, United Kingdom Retrieved from http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/ipp2012/catherine-blake-using-secondary-information-inform-public-policy
Chao, T. C. (2012). Exploring the Rhythms of Scientific Data Use. Proceedings of the 2012 iConference (pp. 129-135). ACM. doi:10.1145/2132176.2132193
Efron, M., Organisciak, P., & Fenlon, K. (2012). Improving retrieval of short texts through document expansion. Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval.
Fenlon, K., Efron, M., & Organisciak, P. (2012). Tooling the Aggregator's Workbench: Metadata visualization through statistical text analysis. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 49.
Lucic, A., and Blake, C. (2012) Characterizing Authorship Style Using Linguistic Features, Digital Humanities, July 19, Hamburg Germany.
McDonough, J. (2012, January). Knee-Deep in Data: Practical Problems in Applying the OAIS Reference Model to the Preservation of Computer Games. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2012, Maui, HI. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.1
Organisciak, P., Efron, M., Fenlon, K., & Senseney, M. (2012, October). Evaluating Rater Quality and Rating Difficulty in Online Annotation Activities. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 49.
Weber , N., Baker, K., Thomer, A., Chao, T., & Palmer, C. (2012, October ). Value and Context in Data Use: Domain Analysis Revisited. ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Retrieved from http://www.asis.org/asist2012/abstracts/168.html
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

Conference Posters

Jett, J., Senseney, M., & Palmer , C. (2012, October ). Enhancing Cultural Heritage Collections by Supporting and Analyzing Participation in Flickr. ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Retrieved from http://www.asis.org/asist2012/abstracts/287.html
Palmer, C. L., Chao, T. C., Weber, N. M., Sacchi, S., Wickett, K. M., Renear, A. H., Baker, K., Thomer, A., Dubin, D. (2012, March).Integrating conceptual and empirical studies of data to guide curatorial processes. Poster at the 2nd Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Summit, Denver, CO.
Sacchi, S., & McDonough, J. P. (2012). Significant Properties of Complex Digital Artifacts: Open Issues from a Video Game Case Study [poster]. Proceedings of the 2012 iConference (pp. 572-573). ACM. doi:10.1145/2132176.2132293
Varvel, V. E., Bammerlin, E. J., & Palmer, C. L. (2012). Education for Data Professionals: A Study of Current Courses and Programs [poster]. Proceedings of the 2012 iConference (pp. 10-12). doi:10.1145/2132176.2132275
Weber , N. (2012, October). Combined Methods, Thick Descriptions: Languages of Collaboration on Github. ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting , Baltimore, MD. Retrieved from http://www.asis.org/asist2012/abstracts/347.html
Weber, N. M. (2012). Rainmakers , Space Mirrors and Atmospheric Vacuums : A Bibliometric Mapping of Geoengineering Research [poster]. Proceedings of the 2012 iConference (pp. 639-640). ACM. doi:10.1145/2132176.2132320
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
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

Summits, Symposia, Workshops, Presentations

Blake, C. (2012, August). Claim Jumping: Bridging Disciplinary Boundaries Using the Claim Framework. Making Sense of Biological Systems: Using Knowledge Mining to Improve and Validate Models of Living Systems, Bozeman, MT. Retrieved from http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/cobre/workshop/Program.html
Blake, C., & Palmer, C. (2012, February). Data Science and Analytics: What is in it for ischools?. iConference 2012, Toronto, Canada. Retrieved from http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/workshop3/
Hoon Park, D, & Blake, C. (2012) Identifying comparative sentences in full-text scientific articles. Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Workshop on Detecting Structure in Scholarly Discourse, July 12, Jeju South Korea, pp 1-9.
Jett, J. (2012, November). Using open annotation . Digital Library Federation 2012, Denver, CO.
Palmer, C. (2012, September ). The Analytic Potential of Long-Tail Data: Sharable Data and Re-use Value. Wolfram Data Summit 2012, Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://www.wolframdatasummit.org/2012/attendee/presentations/
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
Wickett, K. (2012, December). Representing identity and equivalence for scientific data. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2011

Journal Articles

Efron, M. (2011). Information Search and Retrieval in Microblogs. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62(6). 996-1008.
Sacchi, S., Renear, A., Dubin, D. (2011, December). One thing missing or two things are confused: An analysis of OAIS representation information. Poster at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), Bristol, UK. Retrieved April 30, 2012 from, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/665

Book Chapters

Blake, C. L. (2011). Text mining. In B. Cronin (Ed.). Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. v. 45.

Conference Panels

Tenopir, C., Van der Hoeven, J., Palmer, C. L., Malone, J., & Sinha, P. (2011, October). Sharing data: Practices, barriers, and incentives. Panel presented at the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Retrieved April 30, 2012 from, http://hdl.handle.net/2142/30640
Varvel, V. E. Jr., & Bourdon, C. (2011, June). Maybe it has already been done: Locating existing data for planning, assessment and advocacy. Panel at the American Library Association 2011 Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Williams, R., & LaBarre, K. (2011, October). The Janus Panels: Looking Back in Order to Look Forward. ASIST 2011 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Conference Papers

Chao, T.C. (2011, October 9-12). Disciplinary Reach: Investigating the Impact of Dataset Reuse in the Earth Sciences. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 9-12, 2011, New Orleans, LA.
Cole, T.W., Han, M.J., Moncur, D., & Green, H.E. (2011). Describing collections and collection services for the BTP. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (The Hague, Netherlands, Sept. 21-23, 2011).
Cragin, M. H. (2011, April). Growing the curation community in LIS: Current research and educational initiatives. 2011 Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, Stevens Point, WI.
Dubin, D., Wickett, K., & Sacchi, S. (2011, August). Content, format, and interpretation. Paper presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011, Montrèal, QC, Canada. Retrieved April 30, 2012 from, http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol7/html/Dubin01/BalisageVol7-Dubin01.html
Efron, M., Organisciak, P., & Fenlon, K. (2011, October 9-12). Building Topic Models in a Federated Digital Library Thorugh Selective Document Exclusion. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 9-12, 2011, New Orleans, LA.
Lucic, A., & Blake, C. (2011, June). Comparing the similarities and differences between burton pike’s and stephen mitchell’s translation of the notebooks of malte laurids brigge by rainer maria rilke. Digital Humanities 2011, Palo Alto, CA.
Muñoz, T., Varvel, V. E. Jr., Renear, A., Trainor, K., & Dolan, M. (2011, June). Tasks vs roles: A center perspective on data curation needs in the Humanities. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2011 Conference, Stanford, CA.
Palmer, C.L., Weber, N.M., & Cragin, M.H. (2011, October 9-12). The Analytic Potential of Scientific Data: Understanding Re-use Value. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 9-12, 2011, new Orleans, LA.
Sacchi, S., Wickett, K.M., Renear, A.H., & Dubin, D.S. (2011, October 9-12). A Framework for Applying the Concept of Significant Properties to Datasets. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 9-12, 2011, New Orleans, LA.
Wickett, K.M. (2011). Expressiveness requirements for reasoning about collection/item metadata relationships. Proceedings of the 2011 Iconference. New York, NY: ACM.
Wickett, K.M., Renear, A.H., & Furner, J. (2011, October 9-12). Are Collections Sets? Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) October 9-12, 2011, New Orleans, LA.

Conference Posters

Chao, T. (2011, February). Data repositories: A home for microblog archives? . iConference 2011, Seattle, WA. Retrieved from http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/posters/
Cragin, M. H., Chao, T.C. & Palmer, C. L., (2011, June 13-17). Units of Evidence for Analyzing Subdisciplinary Difference in Data Practice Studies. Poster presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Ottawa, ON.
Fenlon, K., Organizciak, P., Jet, J., & Efron, M. (2011 October 9-12). Semi-Automated Collection Evaluation for Large-Scale Aggregations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 9-12, 2011, New Orleans, LA.
Garnett, A., Holmberg, K.m Akademi, A., Pikas, C., Piwowar,, H., Weber, N., & Priem, J. (2011, October 9-12). Shaken and Stirred: ASIS&T 2011 Attendee Reactions to Shaking It Up: Embracing New Methods for Publishing, Finding, Discussing and Measuring Our Research Output. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Sicence & Technology (ASIS&T), October 9-12, 2011, New Oreleans, LA.
Palmer, C., Weber, N. & Cragin, M., (2011, June 13-17). Analytic Potential of Data: Assessing Reuse Value. Poster presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Ottawa, ON.
Sacchi, S. (2011, February). Annotation evolution: how web 2.0 technologies are enabling a change in annotation practices. iConference 2011, Seattle, WA. Retrieved from http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/posters/
Sacchi, S., (2011, June 1-17). Annotation function categories: A semantic extension to the OAC Alpha3 Data Model. Poster presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Semantic Web Technologies for Libraries and Readers (STLR), Ottawa, ON.
Sacchi, S., (2011, June 13-17). Annotation function categories: A semantic extension to the OAC Alpha3 Data Model. Poster presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Semantic Web Technologies for Libraries and Readers (STLR), Ottawa, ON.

Reports

Open Annotation Collaboration. (2011, April). Final report: The open annotation collaboration phase I: Data model & interoperability specification; AXE / ZOTERO integration; scholarly annotation analysis. CIRSS Report OAC1101. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois. Retrieved from http://www.openannotation.org/documents/OACPhaseI-FinalReport-30April.pdf
Public Library Association (2011). Public Library Data Service Statistical Report 2011. V. E. Varvel Jr. & K. Hughes (Eds.). Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Varvel, V. E. Jr. (2011). Data Conservancy cyberinfrastructure early development case study. (CIRSS Report DC1101). Champaign, IL: Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship.
Varvel, V. E. Jr. (2011, September/October). Characteristics and trends in the public library data service 2011 statistical report. Public Libraries, 50(5) 28-37.
Varvel, V. E. Jr., & Thomer, A. (2011). Google Digital Humanities Awards recipient interviews report (CIRSS Report No. HTRC1101) Champaign, IL: Center for Information Research in Science and Scholarship, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Varvel, V.E. Jr, Palmer, C.L., Chao, T., & Sacchi, S. (2011). Report from the Research Data Workforce Summit: Sponsored by the Data Conservancy. [Report from summit presented during the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, December 6, 2010, Chicago, IL] Champaign, IL: Center for Informatics Research in Science & Scholarship, University of Illinois.
Weber, N., Chao, T., Palmer, C.L., & Varvel, V.E. Jr., (2011). Report on the Data Curation Research Summit. [Report from summit presented during the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, December 9, 2011, Chicago, IL: Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, University of Illinois.

Summits, Symposia, Workshops, Presentations

Dubin, D. (2011, June). Data Theory and Scientific Data Management. [presentation]. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Classification Society.
Palmer C. L. (2011, September). Investing in research data. Closing address for the Illinois Research Data Initiative Opening Symposium. Urbana, IL.
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/

2010

Journal Articles

Blake, C. (2010) Beyond genes, proteins, and abstracts: Identifying scientific claims from full-text biomedical articles, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(2):173-189.
Cragin, M.H., Palmer, C.L., Carlson, J.R., & Witt, M. (2010). Data sharing, small science, and institutional repositories. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 368(1926), 4023-4038.
Efron, M. & Winget, M. (2010). Query polyrepresentation for ranking retrieval systems without relevance judgments. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 61(6), pp. 1081-1091
Efron, M. (2010). Linear time series models for term weighting in information retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 61(7), pp. 1299-1312.
Varvel, V. E. Jr. (2010, May/June). Characteristics and trends in the public library data service report. Public Libraries, 49(3) 36-44.
Varvel, V. E. Jr. (2010, November/December). Characteristics and trends in the public library data service 2010 statistical report. Public Libraries, 49(6), 34-42.
Wickett, K., Renear, A., & Urban, R. (2010, October 22-27). Rule categories for collection/item metadata relationships. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.

Book Chapters

Palmer, C. L. (2010). Information research on interdisciplinarity. In Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, edited by Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein, and Carl Mitcham. New York, Oxford University Press.
Tilley, C. & La Barre, K. (2010). New Models from Old Tools: Leveraging an Understanding of Information Tasks and Subject Domain to Support Enhanced Discovery and Access to Folktales. (2010). In Claudio Gnoli, Fulvio Mazzocci (Eds.) Paradigms and Conceptual Systems in Knowledge Organization, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization. No. 12, p. 269-275. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.
Twidale, M. B., & Nichols, D. M. (2009). Collaborative information retrieval. In M. Bates, & M. N. Maack (Eds.), The encyclopaedia of library and information sciences. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Conference Panels

Palmer, C. L. (2010). Data curation and the future of research libraries. Presentation for the “Research on Researchers” panel, Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications, June 24-25, 2010. University College London, UK.

Conference Papers

Blake,C., Zheng,W., Painter,K., Weyerhaeuser, W. (2010) The Role of Semantics in Recognizing Textual Entailment, Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2010 Recognizing Textual Entailment Track (RTE-6)
Cragin, M. H. (2010). Introduction to data curation-A running tour through the data curation environment. Presented at the 2010 USAIN Conference. Purdue University, IN.
Efron, M. & Winget, M. (2010, October 22-27). Questions are content: A taxonomy of questions in a microblogging environment. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.
Hu, X., & Downie, J. S. (2010, June). Improving mood classificaiton in music digital libraries by combining lyrics and audio. Presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia.
Hunter, J., Cole, T., Sanderson, R., & Van de Sompel, R. (2010, July). The open annotation collaboration: A data model to support sharing and interoperability of scholarly annotations. Paper presented at Digital Humanities 2010, King's College, London, UK.
La Barre, K.; Tilley, C. (2010) A Sense of Wonder: Enhancing Access to Folktales through Task and Facet Analysis. Proceedings of the 2010 iConference. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/14900
Palmer, C. L., Zavalina, O., & Fenlon, K. (2010, October 22-27). Beyond size and search: Building contextual mass in digital aggregations for scholarly use. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.
Renear, A. H., Muñoz, T., & Trainor, K., (2010, November). Data curation education for the humanities: Principles and challenges. Presented at the 5th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Evanston, IL.
Renear, A., Sacchi, S., & Wickett, K. (2010, October 22-27). Definitions of dataset in the scientific and technical literature. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.
West, K, A. Kumar, A. Shirk, J. S. Downie, A. Ehmann, and M. Bay, "The Networked Environment for Music Analysis (NEMA)", in IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2010) . Miami, FL, 2010.
Zheng, W. & Blake, C. (2010, October 22-27). Bootstrapping location relations from text. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.

Conference Posters

Cragin, M. H., Palmer, C. L., & Chao, T. (2010, October 22-27). Relating data practices, types, and curation functions: An empirically derived framework. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Pittsburgh, PA.
Efron, M. (2010, July). Hashtag retrieval in a microblogging environment. Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 787-788.
Jett, J., Palmer, C. L., Fenlon, K., & Chao, Z. (2010, October 22-27). Extending the reach of our collective cultural heritage: The IMLS DCC Flickr feasibility study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Pittsburgh, PA.
Urban, R. (2010, October 22-27). Principle violations: Revisiting the Dublin Core 1:1 principle. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Pittsburgh, PA.
Weber, N., Piwowar, H., & Vision, T. (2010, October 22-27). Evaluating data citation and sharing policies in the Earth sciences. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Pittsburgh, PA.
Zheng, W., & Blake, C. (2010, February). Automatic extraction of location relations from text. Poster from iConference 2010. Champaign, IL.

Reports

Association of College and Research Libraries (2010). 2009 Academic Library Trends and Statistics. V. E. Varvel Jr. (Ed.). Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
La Barre, K. & Tilley, K. (2010). Folktales and Facets: Final project report to OCLC/ALISE for grant via OCLC/ALISE LISRG program. Retrieved http://hdl.handle.net/2142/14887
McDonough, J., Olendorf, R., Kirschenbaum, M., Kraus, K., Reside, D., Donahue, R., Phelps, A., Egert, C., Lowood, H., & Rojo, S. (2010). Preserving Virtual Worlds Final Report. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois.
Public Library Association (2010). Public Library Data Service Statistical Report 2010. V. E. Varvel Jr. & K. Hughes (Eds.). Chicago, IL: American Library Association.

Summits, Symposia, Workshops, Presentations

Cragin, M. H. (2010). Small science research and the data sharing strata. Presentation for the "Legal and Social Implications of Shared Collections" panel, ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, April 9-10, 2010, Phoenix, AZ.
Palmer, C. L. (2010) Information science & research library collaborations, by design. Presented at the IMLS Library Research Symposium, October 5, 2010, Baltimore, MD.
Palmer, C. L. (2010, November).The Data Conservancy and data curation research and education at CIRSS. Presentation for the University of Illinois Data Stewardship committee, Urbana, IL.
Palmer, C.L. (2010). Aggregating collections to advance our collective cultural heritage. Presented at WebWise2010, March 3-5, 2010. Denver, CO.
Urban, R. (2010). The past’s present future: Emerging trends in online cultural heritage. Presented at the “On the Front Lines: Agents of Change” Conference, March 15-17, 2010, Springfield, IL.

2009

Journal Articles

Chapman, John W., David Reynolds, & Sarah Shreeves. (2009). Repository metadata: approaches and challenges. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 47(3/4), 209-235.
Nichols, D. M., Paynter, G., Chan, C. H., Bainbridge, D., McKay, D., Twidale, M. B., et al. (2009). Experiences in deploying metadata analysis tools for institutional repositories. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 47(3/4), 229-248.
Renear, A. H, & Palmer. C. L. (2009). Strategic reading, ontologies, and the future of scientific publishing. Science, 325(5942), 828-832. doi: 10.1126/science.1157784
Varvel, V. E. Jr., & Lei, X. (2009, March/April). Characteristics and trends in the public library data service 2008 report. Public Libraries, 48(2) 6-12.
Witt, M., Carlson, J., Brandt, D. S., Cragin, M. H. (2009). Constructing data curation profiles. International Journal of Digital Curation, 4(3). 93-103.

Book Chapters

McDonough, J. (2009). “How will we preserve virtual worlds?” in Bart De Nil & Jeroen Walterus (Eds.), Nieuwe Perspectieven voor Digitaal Erfgoed. Brussel: Pharo Publishing.
Palmer, C. L. (2009). Information research on interdisciplinarity. In R. Frodeman, J. T. Klein & C. Mitcham (Eds.), Oxford handbook of interdisciplinarity. New York: Oxford University Press.
Shreeves, S. L. (2009). Cannot predict now: The role of repositories in the future of the journal. In B. Cope, & A. Phillips (Eds.), The future of the journal in the digital age. Oxford, U.K.: Chandos Press.

Conference Panels

Bartlett, J. C., Hemminger, B. M., MacMullen, W. J., & Benoit, G. (2009, March 18-29). Evolving curricula in LIS-focused bioinformatics programs. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Memphis, TN.
Cragin, M. H., Smith, L. C., Palmer, C. L., & Heidorn, P. B. (2009, April 1-3). Extending the data curation curriculum to practicing LIS professionals. Panel for DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects, Chapel Hill, NC.
Lowood, H., McDonough, J., Frick, C., Renear, A. “Digital Curation of Humanistics, Multimedia Materials: Lessons Learned and Future Directions” (Panel abstract), Proceedings of DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation – Practices, Promise & Prospects, ed. Helen R. Tibbo, et al. (Chapel Hill: School of Library and information Science, Univ. of North Carolina, 2009; distributed by Lulu Press): 42-43.
Smith, C. A., Agnew, G., Cragin, M., Dryden, J., & Eschenfelder, K. R. (2009 April 1-3). Digital Curation Policy Issues. Panel discussion at DiggCCurr Conference: Digital Curation Practice, Promise, and Prospects. Chapel Hill, N.C.
Winget, M., Frick, C., McDonough, J., Renear, A., & Lowood, H. (2009 April 1-3). Digital curation of humanistic, multimedia materials: Lessons learned and future directions. Panel discussion at DiggCCurr Conference: Digital Curation Practice, Promise, and Prospects. Chapel Hill, NC.

Conference Papers

Hill, J. I., MacMullen, W. J., & Palmer, C. (2009, March 18-29). Characteristics of bioinformatics employment advertisements. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Memphis, TN.
MacMullen, W. J., Meadows, S. J., & Huang, S. (2009). A characterization of manual literature annotations by biocurators. Presentation at the 2009 North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) Conference.
Urban, R. J. (2009). Blending grounded theory and ontology development methods. Presented at the Association of Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) Conference. Denver, CO.
Urban, R., Twidale, M., Jackson, A. (2009, April 21). Patchwork prototyping a collections dashboard. Museums and the Web, 2009. Indianapolis, IN.
Wickett, K. (2009, February 8-11). Logical expressiveness of semantic web languages for bibliographic modeling. iConference, 2009. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Conference Posters

Cragin, M., Palmer, C., Varvel, V. E. Jr., Collie, A., & Dolan, M. (2009, December). Analyzing data curation job descriptions. Poster session presented at the 5th International Digital Curation Conference, London, England. Retrieved February 23, 2011 from http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009
Renear, A., Teffeau, L. C., Hswe, P., Dolan, M., Palmer, C. L., Cragin, M. H., & Unsworth, J. (2009 April 1-3). Extending an LIS data curation curriculum to include humanities data. Demonstration at DiggCCurr Conference: Digital Curation Practice, Promise, and Prospects. Chapel Hill, NC.
Urban, R. (2009). Blended methods for ontology development. Presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference. Denver, CO.
Urban, R. (2009). Modeling CDWA lite as an OWL-DL ontology. Presented at IConference 2009. Chapel Hill, NC.
Zheng, W. (2009, February 8-11). Exploring hidden connections among historic images. iConference, 2009. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Reports

Association of College and Research Libraries (2009). 2008 Academic Library Trends and Statistics. V. E. Varvel Jr. (Ed.). Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Palmer, C. L., Teffeau, L. C., & Pirmann, C. M., (2009). Scholarly information practices in the online environment: Themes from the literature and implications for library service development. . Dublin, OH: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Public Library Association (2009). Public Library Data Service Statistical Report 2009. V. E. Varvel Jr. & K. Hughes (Eds.). Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Varvel, V. E. Jr., Ayad, A., Palmer, C. L., & Montague, R-A. (2009). Library Access Midwest Program (LAMP) self-selecting minority alumni survey. (CIRSS Report LAMP0901). Champaign, IL: Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Varvel, V. E. Jr., Collie, A., Cragin, M. (2009). Environmental Council survey technical report. (CIRSS Report EC0901). Champaign, IL: Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2008

Journal Articles

Heidorn, P.b.(2008). Shedding light on the dark data in the long tail of science. Library Trends, 57(2), 280-299.
Jackson, A. S., han, M., Groetsch, K., Mustafoff, M., & Cole, T. W. (2008) Dublin Core metadata harvested through OAI-PMH. Journal of Library Metadata, 8(1), 5-21.
M. Efron (2008). Query Expansion and Dimensionality Reduction: Notions of Optimality in Rocchio Relevance Feedback and Latent Semantic Indexing. Information Processing and Management, 44(1). 163-180.
Palmer, C. L., & Cragin, M. H. (2008). Scholarship and disciplinary practices. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 42, 165-212.
Palmer, C. L., Teffeau, L. C., & Newton, M. P. (2008) Strategies for instituional repository development: A case study of three evolving initiatives. Library Trends, 57(2), 142-167.
Zavalina, O., Palmer, C. L., Jackson, A. S., Han, M. (2008). Evaluating descriptive richness in collection-level metadata. Journal of Library Metadata, 8(4), 263-292.

Book Chapters

Unsworth, J. M. (2008.). University 2.0. In R. N. Katz (Ed.), The tower and the cloud. Washington: EDUCAUSE.

Conference Papers

Nichols, D. M., Chan, C. H., Bainbridge, D., McKay, D., & Twidale, M. B. (2008). A lightweight metadata quality tool. JCDL 2008, 385-388.
Palmer, C. L. & McDonough, J. (2008, October 25). Developing curriculum for digital libraries and digital curation education: Reflections on synergies and divergencies. Panel presentation organized by Jeffrey Pomerantz, et al., American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIS&T), Columbus, OH.
Renear, A. .H., Urban, R., Wickett, K., Palmer, C. L., Dubin, D. (2008). Sustaining collection value: Manageing collection/item metadata relationships. In Digital Humanities 2008. Oulou, Finland, June 25-29, 2008.
Renear, A. H., Dubin, D., & Wickett, K. M. (2008). When digital objects change — exactly what changes? Presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Columbus, OH.
Renear, A. H., Wickett, K. M., Urban, R. J., & Dubin, D. (2008). The Return of the trivial: Problems formalizing collection-level/item-level metadata relationships. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: JCDL 2008 (pg. 464). Pittsburgh, PA, June 16-20, 2008.
Renear, A. H., Wickett, K. M., Urban, R. J., Dubin, D., & Shreeves, S. L. (2008). Colleciton/Item metadata relationships. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (pp. 80-89). Berlin, Germany, September 22-26, 2008.
Unsworth, J. M. (2008). Evidence of value. Presented at DH2008 Conference, Oulu, Finland.

Conference Posters

Brandt, D. S., Carlson, J., Cragin, M. H., Heidorn, B., Palmer, C. L., Shreeves, S., & Witt, M. (2008, December). Investigating data curation profiles across multiple research disciplines. Poster presented at the 4th Annual International Digital Curation Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.
MacMullen, W. J. (2008, May 16-21). Understanding biocurators: Attributes and roles of model organism database curators. Poster session presented at the Medical Library Association (MLA) Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Palmer, C. L., Renear, A. H., & Cragin, M. H. (2008, December). Purposeful curation: Research and education for a future with working data. poster presented at the 4th Annual International Digital Curation Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland

Conference Workshops

Blake, C. (2008). Beyond genes, proteins, and abstracts: A framework to capture scientific claims. [Workshop] Microsoft eScience.
Smith, L. C., Cragin, M.H., Heidorn, P. B., Palmer, C.L., & MacMullen, W. J. (2008, June 20). Developing an effective data curation education program. Presentation at the "Education for Digital Stewardship: Librarians, Archivists or Curators?" workshop at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Pittsburgh, PA.

Reports

Association of College and Research Libraries (2008). 2007 Academic Library Trends and Statistics. V. E. Varvel Jr. (Ed.). Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
Palmer, C. L., Teffeau, L. C., & Newton, M. P (2008, August). Identifying Factors of Success in CIC Institutional Repository Development-Final Report. (Report). New York: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Public Library Association (2008). Public Library Data Service Statistical Report 2008. V. E. Varvel Jr. & K. Hughes (Eds.). Chicago, IL: American Library Association.

Summits, Symposia, Workshops, Presentations

Cragin, M. H. (2008, April 15). Data curation services in research libraries. [Presentation] National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
MacMullen, W. J. (2008.). Introduction to digital scientific data. [Institute Presentation] Summer Institute on Data Curation, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.
Palmer, C. L., & Cole, T. (2008, October 6-8). IMLS Digital Collections and Content. Poster session presented at Chief Officers of State Library Agencies Fall 2008 meeting. Jackson, MI.
Shreeves, S. L. (2008). Open access: Overview and current trends. [Seminar] Presented for the Illinois Library Association. Chicago, IL.
Zavalina, O., Palmer, C. L., Jackson, A. S., & Han, M. (2008, September 24). Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata. Poster session presented at Dublin core. Berlin, Germany.

2007

Journal Articles

Heidorn, P. B., Palmer, C. L., & Wright, D. (2007). Biological Information Specialists for Biological Informatics. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration, 2(1). doi:10.1186/1747-5333-2-1
Hong, C., & Heidorn, P. B. (2007). The reusability of induced knowledge for the automatic semantic markup of taxonomic descriptions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 133-149.
M. Efron (2007). Metadata use in OAI-Compliant Institutional Repositories. Journal of Digital Information. 8(2).
Palmer, C. L., Cragin, M. H., and Hogan, T. P. (2007). Weak Information Work in Scientific Discovery. Information Processing and Mangement, 43(3), 808-820.
Palmer, C. L., Heidorn, P. B., Wright, D. & Cragin, M. H. (2007). Graduate Curriculum for Biological Information Specialists: A key to integration of scale in biology. International Journal of Data Curation, 2(2), 31-40.

Conference Papers

Blake, C. (2007) The role of sentence structure in recognizing textual entailment. Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, p101-6. Prague, Czech Republic.
Cragin, M. H., D'Avolio, L., MacMullen, W. J., & Smith, C. A. (2007). The effects of context on data quality in biomedical data reuse. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). Milwaukee, WI.
Floyd, I., & Renear, A. H. (2007). What exactly is a FRBR item in the digital world? In Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee, WI.
Heidorn, P. B. (2007, October 25). Biological information management from molecules to ecosystems. Panel on “Biological Information Specialist Training,” at 2nd International BioCuration Meeting. San Jose, CA.
Heidorn, P. B., Wei, Q. (2007, September). Using New Technologies for Education and Communication. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Annual Conference. Bratislava, Slovakia.
Lee, J. H., & Renear, A. H. (2007). How incorrect information delivers correct search results: A pragmatic analysis of queries. Presentation at the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee, WI.
Palmer, C. L. (2007, April 24-26). Adapting Digital Information to Scientific Practices. STM Spring Conference: The Next Generation: Endless Choices & Economic Constraints, Cambridge, MA.
Palmer, C. L., Cragin, M. H., & Heidorn, P. B. (2007). Supporting biological information work: Research and education for digital resources and long-lived data. The 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pg. 353), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Palmer, C.L., Zavalina, O., & Mustafoff, M. (2007). Trends in metadata practices: A longitudinal study of collection federation. In R. Larson, E. Rasmussen, S. Sugimoto, & E. Toms (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries,(pp. 386-395). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.
Tang, X., & Heidorn, P. B. (2007). The loss of domain knowledge in user search queries: A query log analysis of a botanical retrieval system. Presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Unsworth, J. M. (2007). The foundations and futures of digital humanities. Presented at the InFormation Year Conference, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University. Durham, NC.
Unsworth, J. M. (2007). University 2.0 Integration of Information Services into University Infrastructures. Presented at the 7th Frankfurt Scientific Symposium, Universitat Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt, Germany.
Unsworth, J. M. (2007). Cyberinfrastructure and Open Standards, Methods, and Communities. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago.
Urban, R. J., Twidale, M. B., & Marty, P. (2007). Second life: Museums and archeological modeling. Presented at Digital Humanities Conference. Champaign, IL.
Urban, R., Marty, P., & Twidale, M. B. (2007). A second life for your museum: 3D multi-user virtual environments and museums. In Proceedings, Museums and the Web. San Francisco, CA.
Zavalina, O. (2007). Collection-level user searches in federated digital resource environment. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 44.

Conference Posters

Cragin, M. H., Heidorn, P. B., Palmer, C. L., & Smith, L. C. (2007, June 21-27). An Educational Program on Data Curation. Poster session presented at the Science and Technology Section program: Issues and Trends in Digital Repositories of Non-textual Information: Support for Research and Teaching. ALA Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
Heidorn, P. B., Palmer, C. L., Wright, D., & Cragin, M. H. (2007, July 7-11). Information Specialist’s Training in Biology. Poster session presented at Plant Science and Botany 2007 Conference, Chicago.
Heidorn, P. B., Palmer, C. L., Wright, D., & Cragin, M. H. (2007, October 25-28). Biological Information Specialist’s Training. Poster session presented at the 2nd International BioCuration Meeting, San Jose, CA
Jackson, A., Zavalina, O., Twidale, M. (2007, October 4-7). Aggregating Collections for Access: the IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project at the University of Illinois at UC. Poster session presented at LITA National Forum. Denver, CO.
MacMullen, W. J. (2007) Contextual analysis of variation and quality in human-curated gene ontology annotations. Poster session presented at the 2007 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE).
MacMullen, W. J. (2007). A research design for measuring variation in database curators' annotations through prospective randomized controlled studies. Poster session presented at The 3rd International Digital Curation Conference, Washington DC.
MacMullen, W. J. (2007). A research design for measuring variation in database curators' annotations through prospective randomized controlled studies. Poster session presented at The 3rd International Digital Curation Conference, Washington DC.
Palmer, C. L. (2007, June 18-23). Trends in Metadata Practices: A Longitudinal Study of Collection Federation. Poster session presented at Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Palmer, C. L. (2007, October 19-24). Investing in Collection Representation for More Useful Repositories. Poster session presented at ASIS&T 2007 Annual meeting. Milwaukee, WI.

Reports

Estabrook, L., Witt, E., & Rainie, L. (2007). Information searches that solve problems: How people use the internet, libraries, and government agencies when they need help.(CIRSS Report Pew0701). Washington, DC: Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Summits, Symposia, Workshops, Presentations

Blake, C. (2007). In support of e-science - Shifting from information retrieval to information synthesis, [Workshop Abstract] 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI. Chapel Hill, NC.
MacMullen, W. J. (2007). Measuring variation in curators' GO annotations through a controlled multi-MOD study. Presentation at the Second International Biocurator Meeting, San Jose, CA.
Renear, A. H. (2007). The ontological status of the digital text: A pluralist approach. [Symposium] Presented at the 30th Internatinal Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria.
Unsworth, J. (2007, March). Learning from NORA: Distributed software development in the humanities. [Seminar] Presented at Indiana University. Bloomington, IN.
Unsworth, J. M. (2007). Digital repositories and publishing in the humanities, arts, and social sciences: Challenges and opportunities. [Presentation] Society for Scholarly Publishing, "Opportunities for Publishers in a World of Institutional Repositories", Washington, DC.
Unsworth, J. M. (2007). New directions in humanities research. [Lecture] Stanford Humanities Center. Standord, CA.
Yu, B., & Unsworth, J. (2007, June). An evaluation of text classification methods for literary study. Presentation at Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

2006

Journal Articles

Blake, C. & Pratt, W. (2006). Collaborative information synthesis I: A model of information behaviors of scientists in medicine and public health. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(13):1740-9.
Blake, C. & Pratt, W. (2006). Collaborative information synthesis II: Recommendations for information systems that support synthesis activities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(14), 1888-95.

Conference Panels

Cragin, M.H., MacMullen, W.J., Wallis, J., & Zimmerman, A. (2006). Scholarly communication: Scientists’ views of a changing landscape. Panel titled, “Managing Scientific Data for Long-term Access and Use,” In Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, ASIS&T ‘06, Austin, TX, November 3-8, 2006.

Conference Papers

Blake, C. & Rendall, M. (2006). Scientific discovery: A view from the trenches, In L. Todorovski, N. Lavrac, K. P. Jantke (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Discovery Science, 9th International Conference, p.41-52. Barcelona, Spain.
Blake, C. (2006). A Comparison of Document, Sentence and Term Event Spaces, In Proceedings of the Joint 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) and the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p601-8, Sydney, Australia.
Cragin, M. H. (2006). The Roles of Shared Data Collections in Neuroscience. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference, “Digital Data Curation in Practice.” Glasgow, Scotland, November 21-22, 2006.
Heidorn, P.B., Palmer, C.L., Wright, D., & Cragin, M.H. (2006). Graduate Curriculum for Biological Information Specialists: A key to integration of Scale in Biology. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference, “Digital Data Curation in Practice.” Glasgow, Scotland, November 21-22, 2006.
Palmer, C.L., Knutson, E.M., Twidale, M., & Zavalina, O. (2006). Collection definition in federated digital resource development. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 43.

Conference Posters

Palmer, C. L., Cragin, M. H., Heidorn, P. B., & Wright, D. (2006, June 11-15). . Poster session presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Chapel Hill, NC.

Reports

Heidorn, P. B., Palmer, C. L., & Wright, D. (2006). A Graduate Program for Biological Information Specialists. (UIUC GSLIS Technical Report 3 UIUCLIS-2006/2+SCI). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois.