GSLIS Research Showcase 2009

Monday, April 6, 2009

1 - 3 pm: Research Presentations
3 - 4 pm: Poster Session and Reception

GSLIS Room 126 and East Foyer
501 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois

As a world leader in library and information science, GSLIS is engaged in a number of research projects that benefit the way information is produced, analyzed, and preserved in society.

The 2009 Research Showcase was held on Monday, April 6, where GSLIS faculty and students presented short talks and a poster session highlighting the breadth, depth, and possibilities of their scholarly work. Topics included digital preservation and data curation, information modeling and retrieval, youth literature, and community informatics.

This is an annual event and open to campus and the general public. GSLIS invites faculty to learn more about our research and opportunities for collaboration, students to learn more about our programs, and the general public to learn why GSLIS is the nation's top-ranked library and information science school.

Presentations (1-3 pm; LIS 126)

Opening Remarks, John Unsworth
audio

Introduction, Les Gasser
audio

Buildings, Books and Social Engineering: Early Public Library Buildings in Britain from Past to Present
Alistair Black
audio | slides

Space and Cyberspace in Chicago's Ethnic, Diasporan Communities
Kate Williams
audio | slides

One View of Information Analysis, Two Visions of Systematizing Knowledge Organization (KO): A Comparison of the Indexing Theories of Paul Otlet and Julius Otto Kaiser
Thomas M. Dousa
audio | slides

Music and Audio Information Retrieval Research at GSLIS
J. Stephen Downie and the IMIRSEL Team
audio | slides

Biotech and the Knowledge Commons
Wilhelm Peekhaus
audio | slides

Learning How to Read in a Digital Library
Bonnie Mak
audio | slides

The Origin of Chinese-American Children's Literature: An Historical Study
Minjie Chen
audio | slides

Automated Discovery of Social Networks in Text-Based Online Communities
Anatoliy Gruzd
audio | slides

Posters and Reception (3-4 pm; LIS 131 and E. Foyer)

Analyzing Claims and Evidence in Scientific Literature
John MacMullen

Author Name Disambiguation in Medline
Vetle I. Torvik

Blending Grounded Theory and Ontology Development Methods
Richard J. Urban

Center for Children's Books: Youth, Literature and Culture
Christine Jenkins

Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS)
Carole Palmer and Kevin Trainor

Enhancing Subject Access to Materials in Library OPACs: Are Folksonomies the Answer?
Carrie Pirmann (CAS)

Facets of Community Empowerment: Theory, Technology and Practice
Jeff Ginger, Adam Kehoe and Navadeep Khanal

Folktales and Facets
Kathryn La Barre and Carol Tilley

Geocollaboratories: Using GIS Systems to Enhance Community Participation in Decision-making
Jon Gant

Good Neighbors: The State Farm Research Center, GSLIS, Corporate Taxonomies and Enterprise 2.0
Randy Kuehn and William Marino

Multidimensional Facets of Information Exchange Among Members of an Online Breast Cancer Support Group
Ellen Rubenstein

National Board Certification for Teacher Librarians
Kimberly Seobhan Anderson (CAS)

Patchwork Prototyping a Collections Dashboard
Richard Urban and Mike Twidale

Preserving Virtual Worlds: The OAIS Reference Model vs. the BFG 9000
Jerome McDonough

Scientific Data Collections: Implications for Curation in Academic Libraries
Melissa Cragin

Son of Blinkie: Visualizing Dynamic Classifications of Music
Stephen Downie and IMIRSEL group

The Emergence of Information Organization in Biology
Dan Wright

The INFORM Risk Assessment Methodology Project: Collaboratively Assessing Data Format Risk
Jerome McDonough, Larry S. Jackson, Mamta Singh, Guojun Zhu and Patricia Hswe

Towards the Global Measurement of the Information Society: a U.S.-China Comparison of National Government Surveys
Hui Yan, PhD student Peking U

Website Structure: Models for Archiving
Larry S. Jackson

What is Community Informatics in Japan? A Look at 12 Cases
Aiko Takazawa

When Digital Objects Change -- Exactly What Changes?
Karen Wickett

Youth Community Informatics
Bertram Bruce, Lisa Bouillion, Ann Bishop, Martin Wolske, Moustafa Ayad, Nama Budhathok, Chera Kowalski, Chaebong Nam and Christopher Ritzo

2008 Showcase Presentations

If you have any questions, please contact Janet Eke, Research Services Coordinator, at -jeke, at illinois.edu- or 217-333-4701.