POST CONFERENCE MATERIALS
PAPER SESSION: PRESENTATIONS
PAPER SESSION #1 • Session Chair: John Unsworth
Discipline Formation and the Field of Information
Fran Miksa
University of Texas at Austin; miksa@ischool.utexas.edu
Topics: information organization, Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: Discipline formation, Tradition, Information organization, Field of information
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One iSchool's Ideas and Identity: Doctoral Training and Research at Rutgers-SCILS 1959-2007
Hartmut B. Mokros
Rutgers University; mokros@scils.rutgers.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: Education, Doctoral Training, Research, iSchools
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iSchools: Mice Roaring or the Future is Now Arriving?
Steve Sawyer and Howard Rosenbaum
Pennsylvania State University; Indiana University; sawyer@ist.psu.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch, Other
Keywords: iSchools, institutions, faculty, graduate students
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iSchool Curricula: How Wide? How Deep?
Richard A. Thompson
University of Pittsburgh; thompson@sis.pitt.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: curriculum, telecommunications
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PAPER SESSION #2 • Session Chair: Jenny Preece
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Culture and Individual Rights to Access
Kristy Kay Mathiesen
University of Arizona; kmathies@email.arizona.edu
Topics: Information policy, ethics and law
Keywords: human rights, cultural property, indigenous, philosophy, intellectual freedom
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Tracing Transnational Flows of IT Knowledge through Open Exchange of Software Development Know-How
Susan Elliott Sim and Kavita Philip
University of California, Irvine; ses@ics.uci.edu
Topics: Information policy, ethics and law, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: software engineering, India, ethnography, history
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Prim Drift, CopyBots, and Folk Preservation: Three Copyright Parables about Art in the Digital Age
Kari M. Kraus
University of Maryland; karimkraus@gmail.com
Topics: Cultural information systems, Information policy, ethics and law, Other
Keywords: second life, virtual worlds, intellectual property, arts and humanities
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Culture At the Interface: Collaborative Design and Information Management with Indigenous Communities
Kimberly Christen, Craig Dietrich, and Ramesh Srinivasan
Washington State University; University of Iowa; University of California,
Los Angeles; kim.christen@gmail.com
Topics: Cultural information systems, Information technology and services for
under-addressed communities
Keywords: indigenous, digital archives, information management, collaboration
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PAPER SESSION #3 • Session Chair: Brian Cantwell Smith
The Role of the Arts in an iSchool Education
Robert Heckman and Jaime Snyder
Syracuse University; rheckman@syr.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch, Other
Keywords: arts, aesthetics, i-professionals
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Community Identity: Peer Prestige and Academic Hiring in the iSchools
Andrea Wiggins, Michael J. McQuaid, and Lada A. Adamic
Syracuse University; University of Michigan; awiggins@syr.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: identity, community, prestige, hiring
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"Just me in a Closet with a Computer": Student Perceptions of Undergraduate Information Technology Programs
Heekyung Choi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; hchoi8.uiuc@gmail.com
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: informatics, IT education
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Taylor’s Value-Added Model: Still Relevant After All These Years
Michael B. Eisenberg and Lee Dirks
University of Washington; Microsoft Corporation; mbe@u.washington.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: value-added, information theory, design, information technology, systems
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PAPER SESSION #4 • Session Chair: Marcia Bates
Privacy and Participation in Ubiquitous Information Systems: Information Ethics when Mobile Phones are Sensors
Katie Shilton, Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen and Mani Srivastava
University of California, Los Angeles; kshilton@ucla.edu
Topics: Information assurance and security, Information policy, ethics and law, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: ubiquitous computing, privacy, ethics, embedded networked sensing
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Technical Authorship: Refiguring the Designer-user Conflict and the Visioning of Collective Technical Futures
Marisa Leavitt Cohn, Susan Elliott Sim and Kavita Philip
University of California, Irvine; mlcohn@ics.uci.edu
Topics: Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: authorship, user-centered design, STS, software
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The d-school in the i-school: HCI and Design Research
John M. Carroll, S. R. Haynes, F. E. Ritter, M. B. Rosson and X. L. Zhang
Pennsylvania State University; jmcarroll@psu.edu
Topics: Other
Keywords: i-School, d-School, Identity, Interdisciplinarity, Human-Computer Interaction
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In the Spirit of Collaborating
Michael Nilan and Michael D'Eredita
Syracuse University; mnilan@syr.edu
Topics: Other
Keywords: cognitive, social cognition, collaborating, communicating, information use
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PAPER SESSION #5 • Session Chair: Olivia Frost
Understanding del.icio.us Tag Choice Using Simulations
Rick Wash and Emilee Rader
University of Michigan; rwash@umich.edu
Topics: information organization
Keywords: delicious tagging KM
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Approaches to Semantic Markup for Natural Heritage Literatures
Hong Cui
University of Arizona; hongcui@email.arizona.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, information organization, Information management, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: natural heritage literature, semantic markup, taxonomists, machine learning
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Reframing Book Publishing in the Age of Networking
Jana Bradley and Heather Vokac
University of Arizona; janabrad@email.arizona.edu
Topics: community technologies and networking, cultural information systems, information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: electronic publishing, emerging publishers, publishing in the 21st century
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PAPER SESSION #6 • Session Chair: Stephen Hirtle
An Exploration of the Use of Games in Virtual Worlds for Online Education
Martha Garcia-Murillo and Ian MacInnes
Syracuse University; mgarciam@syr.edu
Topics: Other
Keywords: on-line education, virtual worlds, Gee's learning principles
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Information Practices to Sustain Knowledge Building: The Case of the Virtual Math Teams Online Community
Johann Sarmiento and Gerrry Stahl
Drexel University; jsarmi@drexel.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information infrastructure development, Other
Keywords: Information Practices, Social Computing, Knowledge Building, Computer-supported Collaborative Learning
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Designing e-Learning Games on Cellphones to Promote Language Learning and Literacy in the Developing World
Matthew Kam
University of California, Berkeley; mattkam@cs.berkeley.edu
Topics: Cultural information systems, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: Cellphone, Developing World, Games, E-Learning, Literacy
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Information Dissemination and Information Assurance in Vehicular Networks
Prashant Krishnamurthy
University of Pittsburgh; prashk@pitt.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information assurance and security
Keywords: Vehicular Network, Community Network, Information Assurance
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PAPER SESSION #7 • Session Chair: Harry Bruce
Reconsidering the Practical Application of Facets on the Web
Kathryn La Barre
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; kathryn.labarre@gmail.com
Topics: information organization
Keywords: faceted analysis, metadata, resource description
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The Social (Tagging) Act of Reading
Cheryl Knott Malone
University of Arizona; ckmalone@u.arizona.edu
Topics: information organization
Keywords: social tagging, metadata
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FRBR as an Interdisciplinary High-middle Range Theory
Allen H. Renear, David S. Dubin, and Cheryl Malone
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Arizona; renear@uiuc.edu
Topics: information organization
Keywords: metadata, resource description, FRBR
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PAPER SESSION #8 • Session Chair: Debra Richardson
Ethics and the Undergraduate
Paul Conway, Toni Carbo, and Lynette Kvasny
University of Michigan; University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania State University; pconway@umich.edu
Topics: Information policy, ethics and law
Keywords: information ethics, undergraduate education, pedagogy, information policy, social justice
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PAPER SESSION #9 • Session Chair: Bruce Kingma
Location: Covel Commons, West Coast Room
Community Informatics
Kate Williams, Joan Durrance, Howard Rosenbaum, and John Carroll
University of Illinois; University of Michigan; Indiana University; Pennsylvania State University; katewill@uiuc.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information infrastructure development, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities, Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: community, community informatics, memory, datasets, outcomes, curriculum
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PAPER SESSION #10 • Session Chair: Doug Oard
Location: De Neve Plaza B
Whose Data Do You Trust? Integrity Issues in the Preservation of
Scientific Data
Matthew S. Mayernik, Jillian C. Wallis, Alberto Pepe, and Christine L. Borgman
University of California, Los Angeles; mattmayernik@ucla.edu
Topics: Information assurance and security, Information infrastructure development, Preserving digital information
Keywords: data science, data integrity, data curation, cyberinfrastructure, data reuse
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The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Transformation of Research Practices and Outcomes
Eric T. Meyer, Ralph Schroeder, and William H. Dutton
University of Oxford; eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk
Topics: Information infrastructure development, Information policy, ethics and law
Keywords: e-Research, cyberinfrastructure, e-Social Science, social shaping
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Event-Driven Productivity Infrastructure
Hugh Taylor
Microsoft Corp; htaylor@microsoft.com
Topics: information organization, Information management
Keywords: EDA, Event-Driven Architecture, Productivity Infrastructure
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An Exploration of the Life Cycle of eScience Collaboratory Data
Jillian C. Wallis, Matthew S. Mayernik, Alberto Pepe, and Christine L. Borgman
University of California, Los Angeles; jwallisi@ucla.edu
Topics: Information infrastructure development, Information management
Keywords: data life cycle, cyberinfrastructure
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