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Director:
Carole Palmer is director of CIRSS and associate professor of library and information science. Her research focuses on improving information access and use for scientists, humanities scholars, and interdisciplinary researchers. Her current projects include investigations of the impact of interoperability on representation of digital collections (DCC), institutional repository development (IMIRD), and scientific information work and collaboration (SCI)
Affiliated Faculty:
- J. Stephen Downie has research interests that intersect with both the digital humanities and scientific communication at CIRSS and has worked recently in multimedia music information retrieval.
- David Dubin is a research professor whose interests are in the foundations of information representation and description.
- P. Bryan Heidorn researches scientific information extraction as well as information infrastructure to integrate scientists' data, sensor data, and citizen participation in biodiversity informatics in assoication with the Scientific Communication Initiative (SCI).
- Allen H. Renear conducts research on formal ontologies (including metadata) in science and the humanities and is currently exploring strategies for using these ontologies to improve scientific communication and publishing.
- Linda C. Smith, professor and associate dean, is associated with CIRSS through her work with the Scientific Communication Initiative (SCI) as Co-PI for the Digital Curation Education Program (DCEP)—a component of her larger research interest in orienting students to handle scientific information.
- Michael Twidale's research interests in computer-supported working and collaborative technologies intersect with CIRSS research areas of collections and metadata, scientific communication, and digital humanities.
- John M. Unsworth, dean at GSLIS, is heavily involved in the digital humanities and collections & metadata components of CIRSS as a principal investigator for the MONK, NORA, BRAIN, and ECHO DEPository projects.
- W. John MacMullen
investigates information creation and use behaviors, with a focus on biomedical information resources and services. His current work studies biocurators and the Gene Ontology.
Staff:
- Lauren Teffeau— Project Coordinator and Communications Specialist
- Virgil Varvel— Research Data Analyst
- Melissa Cragin— a doctoral candidate in library and information science at Illinois, conducts research on practices and problems in the long-term management of digital data as part of the Scientific Communication Initiative; she is the coordinator for the Data Curation Education Program that is developing a new concentration within the master’s degree program at GSLIS.
- Amy Jackson— the Project Coordinator for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project at UIUC and Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration. Amy was previously the Metadata and Digital Initiatives Librarian at Indiana State University, and has also worked on digital projects at Harvard University. She holds an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College in Boston and a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. Her current research interest is metadata harvested through OAI-PMH.
- Kelly 'Kami' A Irvin— Research Assistant
- Hsiang-Chieh Lee— Data Analyst
- Xinrong Lei— Data Analyst and Research Assistant
- Mark Newton— Research Assistant
- Mijung Yoon— Data Analyst
- Leigh Estabrook— Director Emeritus
Affiliated Staff & Fellows:
- Timothy Cole is the Interim Head of Digital Services & Development, Mathematics Librarian and Professor of Library Administration at UIUC. He is the Principal Investigator of IMLS Digital Collections & Content project. Cole is a current member of the OAI-ORE Liaison Group and a past member of the OAI-PMH Technical Committee. He is an expert in XML and related technologies such as XSLT, in the use and development of metadata schemas, and in other facets of digital library system design and implementation.
- William Mischo is the Head of Grainger Engineering Library and Information Center and Professor of Library Administration at UIUC. Mischo was the Principal Investigator of the Illinois Digital Library Initiative and D-Lib Test Suite projects, and Co-Principal Investigator of the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project. He is an expert in XML, reference linking systems, simultaneous search systems, and end-user interface design for library applications.
- Sarah Shreeves is the Coordinator for the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), the institutional repository at UIUC. She is the editor of the Digital Library Federation's Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata. She also led the DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group to establish a set of guidelines for shareable MODS records. Sarah is an expert in use of the OAI PMH and interoperable or "shareable" metadata.
- Sayeed Choudhury, associate director of library digital programs at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, has been appointed a research fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He will serve as one of six research fellows during his two-year term, which begins in August 2007.
- Maryann Martone, co-director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research and a Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego (neuroinformatics).
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