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Research Data: Who Will Share What, With Whom, When, And Why?, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

The deluge of scientific research data has excited the general public, as well as the scientific community, with the possibilities for better understanding of scientific problems, from climate to culture. For data to be available, researchers must be willing and able to share them. The policies of governments, funding agencies, journals, and university tenure and promotion committees also influence how, when, and whether research data are shared. Data are complex objects. Their purposes and the methods by which they are produced vary widely across scientific fields, as do the criteria for sharing them. To address these challenges, it is necessary …

The Data Conservancy: Science-Driven Information Science, Christine L. Borgman, Carole L. Palmer

Christine L. Borgman

The Data Conservancy –which is a National Science Foundation funded Datanet project with a diverse array of partners – embraces a shared vision: data curation is not an end, but rather a means to collect, organize, validate, and preserve data to address grand research challenges that face society. Key to the data conservancy approach is information science research on the data practices of the science domains. Three teams are conducting social studies of individual science domains. Prof. Carole Palmer of the University of Illinois will report on their comparative studies of multiple biosciences domains. Prof. Christine Borgman of the University …

The Digital Future Is Now: What The Humanities Can Learn From Escience, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

As the digital humanities mature, their scholarship is taking on many characteristics of the sciences, becoming more data-intensive, information-intensive, distributed, multi-disciplinary, and collaborative. While few scholars in the humanities or arts would wish to be characterized as emulating scientists, they do envy the comparatively rich technical and resource infrastructure of the sciences. The interests of all scholars in the university align with respect to access to data, library resources, and computing infrastructure. However, the scholarly interests of the sciences and humanities diverge regarding research practices, sources of evidence, and degrees of control over those sources. This talk will explore the …

The Digital Archive: The Data Deluge Arrives In The Humanities, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

The data deluge has began to overwhelm the sciences, as instruments such as sensor networks and space telescopes are generating far more data than can possibly be inspected manually. Only digital tools can make sense of these vast volumes of data. As the humanities draw more heavily on digital archives, their scholarship is taking on many characteristics of the sciences, becoming more data-intensive, information-intensive, distributed, multi-disciplinary, and collaborative. However, the humanities typically lack the technical infrastructure available to the sciences. The scholarly interests of the sciences and humanities also diverge with respect to research practices, sources of evidence, and degrees …

Rcuk Review Of E-Science 2009, D.E. Atkins, Christine L. Borgman, N Bindhoff, M Ellisman, S Felman, I Foster, A Heck, D Heerman, J Lane, L Milanesi, J Paraki, W Von Ruden, A Szalay, P Tackley, H Wensink, A Ynnerman

Christine L. Borgman

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Scholarship In The Digital Age: Blurring The Boundaries Between The Sciences And The Humanities (Keynote), Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

As the digital humanities mature, their scholarship is taking on many characteristics of the sciences, becoming more data-intensive, information-intensive, distributed, multi-disciplinary, and collaborative. While few scholars in the humanities or arts would wish to be characterized as emulating scientists, they do envy the comparatively rich technical and resource infrastructure of the sciences. The interests of all scholars in the university align with respect to access to data, library resources, and computing infrastructure. However, the scholarly interests of the sciences and humanities diverge regarding research practices, sources of evidence, and degrees of control over those sources. This talk will explore the …

Digital Libraries: #11;Now Here, Or Nowhere? (Keynote), Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Digital libraries have matured over the 15+ years since the term was coined. Yet the term “digital libraries” has never come into general use outside of a select group of conferences and journals. Have digital libraries been subsumed under the rubric of cyberinfrastructure and eResearch? Have they fallen prey to the eternal debates between the (digital) library of the future and the future of (digital) libraries? Has a focus on technology obscured the larger questions of social practice that surround digital libraries? Or is digital library research at an inflection point, in a pivotal position to respond to the next …

The Digital Future Is Now: A Call To Action For The Humanities, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

The digital humanities are at a critical moment in the transition from a specialty area to a full-fledged community with a common set of methods, sources of evidence, and infrastructure – all of which are necessary for achieving academic recognition. As budgets are slashed and marginal programs are eliminated in the current economic crisis, only the most articulate and productive will survive. Digital collections are proliferating, but most remain difficult to use, and digital scholarship remains a backwater in most humanities departments with respect to hiring, promotion, and teaching practices. Only the scholars themselves are in a position to move …

Building A Usable Infrastructure For E-Science: An Information Perspective, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

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The Social Embeddedness Of Embedded Networked Sensing, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

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The User's Mental Model Of An Information Retrieval System: An Experiment On A Prototype Online Catalog, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

From Acting Locally To Thinking Globally: A Brief History Of Library Automation, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

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Children's Searching Behavior On Browsing And Keyword Online Catalogs: The Science Library Catalog Project, Christine L. Borgman, Sandra G. Hirsh, Andrea L. Gallagher, Virginia A. Walter

Christine L. Borgman

Book Review: An Introduction To Online Searching By Tze-Chung Li, Greenwood Press, 1985, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

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Toward A Definition Of User Friendliness: A Psychological Perspective, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

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Why Are Online Catalogs Hard To Use? Lessons Learned From Information Retrieval Studies., Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

End-User Information-Seeking In The Energy Field: Implications For End-User Access To Doe Recon Databases, Christine L. Borgman, Donald O. Case

Christine L. Borgman

A software research and development project for the U.S. Department of Energy provided an opportunity to explore the information-seeking behavior of energy researchers. The DOE project, entitled “Online Access to Knowledge,” or “OAK,” is developing a microcomputer interface for improving end-user access to energy databases. Interviews with 18 researchers and 34 search intermediaries in energy-related fields indicate a reliance on databases as sources of information. The interview data suggest a migration of searchers toward commercial systems that offer the widest choice of database coverage. Despite previous efforts to encourage direct use of RECON databases, most energy researchers interviewed preferred that …