Research Associate Professor David Dubin and Associate Professor Victoria Stodden participated in the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), held March 8-11 in San Diego. They organized a session on the use of provenance encoding vocabularies for supporting research replication, with discussions focused on a use case in the field of epidemiology.
The session was jointly…
Deborah Stevenson, assistant professor and director of The Center for Children’s Books at GSLIS, will participate in several events in the coming weeks.
Join GSLIS faculty, staff, and students for the following activities during the ACRL 2015 Conference, including our reception on Thursday, March 26, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront (RSVP by March 20). Please stop by and visit us at Booth 571 as well!
Thursday, March 26
Panel Session: Collections, “The Neoliberal in YOUR Library: Resisting Corporate…
The following GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in iConference 2015, which will be held March 24-27 in Newport Beach, California. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the annual conference, which is presented by the iSchools, a worldwide association of information schools dedicated to advancing the information field. The event brings together scholars, researchers, and…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke recently spoke at the Digital Sociology Mini-conference, which was held February 27-28 in New York. Her talk, "Combating Cultural Misinformation/Disinformation on the Internet," was presented as part of a panel discussion titled, "Race, Racism, and Digitally Mediated Spaces." The mini-conference was hosted by the Digital Laboratory Working Group of The…
Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will speak Saturday at the 2015 Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium. Cosponsored by GSLIS, the symposium will bring together graduate students, faculty, and researchers from across campus to discuss current work and methodologies in digital humanities. Registration is free and open to anyone.
Diesner's talk, “Bringing Computational Social Science to the Real…
The 2015 Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium will be held on campus February 28. Learn about digital humanities tools and research methods from Illinois faculty and experts, and join us in building a research community for digital humanities practitioners at Illinois. Registration is free.
GSLIS Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will deliver a research presentation at the…
Associate Professor Carol Tilley has several speaking engagements scheduled in March, including two on campus at the University of Illinois.
On March 3, Tilley will deliver the opening address of Central Michigan University’s (CMU) ComiConference 3. Her talk is titled, “The Secret History of Comics Readers,” and will be held in the CMU Park Library Auditorium. ComiConference 3 is free and open…
CIRSS faculty and students will participate in the upcoming 10th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), February 9-12 in London. This year's theme, "Ten years back, ten years forward: achievements, lessons and the future for digital curation," will focus on how the digital curation research community will be moving the domain forward in the years to come.
Posters
Crediting…
Join GSLIS faculty, staff, and students at the 2015 ALISE Annual Conference, which will be held January 27-30 in Chicago. The theme of the conference is “Mirrors & Windows: Reflections on Social Justice and Re-Imagining LIS Education.”
January 27
WISE Pedagogy Pre-conference Workshop, “Integrating Community Engagement in Online Education,” 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., presenters include…