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GSLIS to make strong showing at ASIS&T 2012

GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 75th Annual Meeting this week in Baltimore, including a preconference anniversary event featuring Professor Emeritus Boyd Rayward as the keynote speaker. GSLIS also will host an alumni reception at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, October 29, at the Pier 5 Hotel Harbor Club to provide an opportunity to network with GSLIS faculty, students, and alumni and learn more about faculty position openings, research, and academic programs.

The ASIS&T Annual Meeting brings together research on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology, serving as a venue for dissemination. This year’s theme of “Information, Interaction, Innovation” celebrates the 75th anniversary of ASIS&T, reflecting on past research achievements and looking toward the future.

PRECONFERENCE

The Information Society and the Future of the History of Information Science
75th Anniversary Keynote Address
W. Boyd Rayward

“Speaking Volumes”: Cuadra, Williams, Cronin and the Evolution of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Linda C. Smith

23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop
Joseph Tennis and Kathryn La Barre, co-chairs

Complications in climate data variable naming
Nicholas Weber, Andrea Thomer, and Gary Strand

Description Is a Drag: Issues in Vocabulary Control
K.R. Roberto

Internal cohesion and external separation
Dave Dubin

Special interest groups 1959 - 1980: Uneasy détente or collegial cold war?
Kathryn La Barre

The 8th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG SI)

A Familiar Face? A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's “Ms. Dewey”
Miriam Sweeney

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Unreliable and Uncertain Annotators: Evaluating Rater Quality and Rating Difficulty in Online Annotation Activities
Peter Organisciak, Miles Efron, Katrina Fenlon and Megan Senseney

Value and Context in Data Use: Domain Analysis Revisited
Nicholas Weber, Karen Baker, Andrea Thomer, Tiffany Chao and Carole Palmer

Identifying Content and Levels of Representation in Scientific Data
Karen Wickett, Simone Sacchi, David Dubin and Allen Renear

Tooling the Aggregator's Workbench: Metadata Visualization through Statistical Text Analysis
Katrina Fenlon, Miles Efron and Peter Organisciak

Emerging Trends in Metadata Research
Heather Lea Moulaison, Susan Rathbun-Grubb, June Abbas, Jane Greenberg, Kathryn La Barre, Eva Méndez Rodríguez, Erik Mitchell and Alenka Šauperl

Library and Information Science in the Big Data Era: Funding, Projects, and Future
Vincent Lariviere, Richard Marciano, Michael Khoo and Stephen Downie

The Other as a Research Agenda for Information Science
Kathryn La Barre, Michael Buckland, Lai Ma and Charles van den Heuvel

PANEL PRESENTATION

ASIS&T Online Education Initiatives: Driving the Future
Diane Rasmussen, Linda C. Smith, Jacob A. Ratliff and Julia Khanova

POSTER SESSION

Using Bootstrapping to Identify Protein Locations
Catherine Blake and Wu Zheng

Towards a Data Literate Citizenry
Michael Twidale, Jon Gant and Catherine Blake

Enhancing Cultural Heritage Collections by Supporting and Analyzing Participation in Flickr
Jacob Jett, Megan Senseney and Carole Palmer

Completeness, Coverage & Equivalence in Scientific Data Records
Andrea Thomer, Karen Baker, Simone Sacchi and David Dubin

Combined Methods, Thick Descriptions: Languages of Collaboration on Github
Nicholas Weber

The Data-at-Risk Initiative:  Analyzing the Current State of Endangered Scientific Data
Angela P. Murillo, Cheryl Thompson, Nico Carver, W. Davenport Robertson, Jane Greenberg and William Anderson

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