Several University of Illinois iSchool faculty and students will participate in the 2016 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, which will be held October 14-18 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The meeting is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. This year’s theme is "Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology."
The involvement of iSchool faculty extends beyond participation in the event. Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre is a member of the ASIS&T Board of Directors, contributing to governance activities. La Barre also served as chair of the jury that selected the Best Information Science Book of the Year. Associate Professor Catherine Blake was paper co-chair for the conference as well as a member of the jury that selected the Research Award.
Papers
"Preparing a Workforce to Effectively Re-use Data"
Doctoral candidate Ana Lucic and Associate Professor Catherine Blake
"The Durability and Fragility of Knowledge Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Astronomy"
Assistant Professor Peter Darch and UCLA researchers Christine Borgman, Ashley Sands, and Milena Golshan
"What Makes a Query Temporally Sensitive?"
Doctoral students Craig Willis and Garrick Sherman and Associate Professor Miles Efron
"The Power of Imaginary Users: Designated Communities in the OAIS Reference Model"
Postdoctoral research associate Rhiannon Stephanie Bettivia
"Toward Accessible Course Content: Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries and Information Systems"
Doctoral students Katrina Fenlon and Ruohua Han, master's student Alex Kinnaman, Professor J. Stephen Downie, and Laura Wood (Tufts University)
"Music Subject Classification Based on Lyrics and User Interpretations"
Doctoral student Kahyun Choi, Professor J. Stephen Downie, Jin Ha Lee (University of Washington), and Xiao Hu (University of Hong Kong)
"The Onion Routing: Understanding a Privacy Enhancing Technology Community"
Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir and Hsiao-Ying Huang (Illinois Informatics Institute)
"The Public Will vs. the Public Trust: Early American Radio as a Public Information Resource"
Doctoral student Stacy Wykle
"Introducing the Author-ity Exporter, and a case study of geo-temporal movement of authors"
Informatics doctoral candidate Mikko Tuomela, Brent Fegley (Informatics PhD '16), and Assistant Professor Vetle Torvik
Panels
"Information Behavior in Workspaces"
Panelists include Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke
"Digital Sociology and Information Science Research"
Panelists include Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke
"Preserving Intangible Heritage: Defining a Research Agenda"
Panelists include Associate Professor Jerome McDonough, Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn, and Associate Professor Lori Kendall
Symposia
"Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG/USE)"
Chairs include Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke
Posters presented during the President's Reception
"Understanding the Needs of Scholars in a Contemporary Publishing Environment"
Doctoral student Katrina Fenlon, Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn, library associate professor and iSchool affiliate Harriett Green, data analysis consultant Chris Maden, library assistant professor Aaron McCollough, and senior project coordinator Megan Senseney
"Disambiguating Descriptions: Mapping Digital Special Collections Metadata into Linked Open Data Formats"
Doctoral student Jacob Jett, library associate professor Myung-Ja Han, and library professor and iSchool affiliate Timothy Cole
"Shopping for Sources: An Everyday Information Behavior Exploration of Grocery Shoppers’ Information Sources"
Postdoctoral research associate Melissa Ocepek
"Towards a Seamless Multilingual Semantic Web: A Study on Constructing a Cross-Lingual Ontology"
Doctoral student Jessica (Yi-Yun) Cheng and Hsueh-Hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)