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J. Stephen Downie

Stephen Downie

Professor, Associate Dean for Research, and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center

PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario

Room 5005, 614 E. Daniel St.

(217) 265-5018

jdownie@illinois.edu

Other professional appointments

  • Faculty Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Research focus

Design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, including multimedia music information retrieval; the political economy of internetworked communication systems; database design; Web-based technologies.

Biography

J. Stephen Downie is associate dean for research and a professor at the School of Information Sciences, and the Illinois codirector of the HathiTrust Research Center. He has been an active participant in the digital libraries and digital humanities research domains. He is best known for helping to establish an vibrant music information retrieval research community. Since 2005, he has directed the annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX). He also was a founder of the International Society Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) and its first president.

VIDEO: Interview with Downie taped in Shanghai, China

Courses currently teaching

Office hours

By appointment, please contact professor

Active Research Projects

Collaborative Research: Accelerating Synthetic Biology Discovery & Exploration through Knowledge Integration
Data Capsule Appliance for Research Analysis of Restricted and Sensitive Data in Academic Libraries
Federated Repositories of Accessible Learning Materials for Higher Education II
HathiTrust Research Center Phase 2
Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination (SCWAReD)
Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis
The Internet of Musical Events Digital Scholarship Community and the Archiving of Performance (InterMuse)

Completed Research Projects

Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust Digital Library Resources
HathiTrust + Bookworm Project
HathiTrust Research Center: New Opportunities through Computational Analysis of HathiTrust Digital Library 2014-2018
MIREX Next Generation
Networked Environment for Music Analysis: Phase I
Repository Services for Accessible Course Content
Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR)
Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI)
Text Mining the Novel: Establishing the Foundations of a New Discipline
Textual Geographies
WCSA+DC
Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project

In the News

iSchool instructors ranked as excellent
Downie and Underwood present keynotes at digital humanities symposium in Japan
iSchool well represented at ASIS&T 2023
iSchool instructors ranked as excellent
iSchool to present research at the Digital Humanities 2023 conference
iSchool researchers receive Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper
iSchool instructors ranked as excellent
Downie to present keynote at CHIIR 2023
iSchool participation in iConference 2023
HTRC Team to contribute to “BLACK DH” Digital Humanities project
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