SLIS Network (the SLIS Alumni Magazine), Vol.46, No.2, Fall 2008

*Editor's Note: Faculty news covers the period of January, 2008 to the week of May 12, 2008.

Bloomington

Katy Börner, Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor and Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center and Information Visualization Lab, is co-principal investigator on a 1.2 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health for Epidemics for the Cyberinfrastructure (EpiC) project. She was a co-organizer of two National Science Foundation sponsored workshops, the first on Knowledge Management and Visualization Tools in Support of Discovery held in Arlington, Virginia and the second the Second NSF Workshop on Knowledge Management and Visualization Tools in Support of Discovery, held in New York City. She gave three talks in support of her "Places & Spaces: Mapping Science" installation at the American Museum of Science & Energy, Tennessee, at the Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and at the US–China workshop, "Designing cyberinfrastructure to enable US–China collaboration in tobacco research," Beijing, China. She also gave talks on mapping and studying science, science policy and cyberinfrastructure at the Interdisciplinary Seminar of the Heraeus Foundation, Bad Honnef, Germany, the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C., the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center at Duke University, and the 28th Annual Conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Blaise Cronin, Dean of the School of Library and Information Science and Rudy Professor of Information Science, published "The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies" in the February issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(4) (with Lokman Meho), "On the epistemic significance of place" in the March issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(6), and a book chapter, "Eros unbound: Pornography and the Internet" in The Internet and American Business, edited by Aspray and Ceruzzi. He gave a talk, "Acknowledged but ignored: What the paratext can tell us about the epistemic significance of collegiate ties," at the University of Brighton, UK in February and a keynote address "Toward a Rhopography of Scholarly Communication" at USE-2008: From Information Provision to Knowledge Production at the University of Oulu, Finland in June. He was appointed Editor in Chief of JASIST in June. He was appointed the Chair of the IU Herman B Wells Presidential Professorship Selection Committee, and he also published a collection of essays, Bloomington Gaze: Yet More Town and Gown in Middle America.

Ron Day, associate professor, taught a course, "The Cultural, Social, and Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Management" in Tallinn, Estonia in May as a part of the European Commission's Erasmus Mundus program's Digital Library Learning (DILL) masters degree program.

Hamid Ekbia, associate professor, published a book in April, Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence, with Cambridge University Press. He also published "The quality of evidence in knowledge management research: Practitioner versus scholarly literature" in the Journal of Information Science, 34(1), in February (with Noriko Hara) and "Not All Roads Lead to Resilience: a Complex Systems Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Tortoises in Arid Ecosystems" in Ecology and Society, 13(1), in February (with T.E Leuteritz). He gave three talks on agent-based modeling and decision support systems at the Desert Tortoise Project, University of Redlands, California in February, at the Business GIS Summit in Chicago, Illinois in April and at the 2nd Knowledge Repository Workshop on Spatial Decision Support Systems at The Redlands Institute in May. He chaired a panel on the "Geographies of Information Society" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference in Boston in May. Ekbia also taught a workshop on "Agent-Based Modeling," for the Master's GIS Program at the University of Redlands in May.

Noriko Hara, associate professor, received tenure and was promoted to rank of associate professor in May. She presented a paper "The Internet and election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Korea" at the Midwestern Political Science Association Annual National Conference in Chicago, Illinois in April (with Y. Jo). She presented a paper "Collaborative Mass Knowledge Production Online: Cross-cultural comparison of variation in the communities of Wikipedians" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in August. She co-organized a panel "Wiki a la carte: Understanding participation behaviors" at the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology in Columbus, Ohio in October with Pnina Shachaf, Eva Callahan, Susan Herring, B. Stivlia, and Paul Solomon.

Susan Herring, professor, published "Implications of gender consciousness for students in information technology" in Women's Studies, 37(3), in January (J.A. Marken). She presented two papers "Arabic and English news coverage on Aljazeera.net" (with M. Abdul Mageed) and "Gender differences in personal advertisements in Lithuanian iTV SMS" (with A. Zelenkauskaite) at Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication 2008 in Murdoch, Australia in March. She gave a talk "Text Chat in a Multiplayer Online Game" at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington and at the University of Washington in Seattle in May (with John Paolillo). She was appointed editor in chief of the online journal Language@Internet in January.

Lokman Meho, associate professor, received tenure and was promoted to rank of associate professor in May. He will also be the new MLS program supervisor upon the retirement of Tom Nisonger. He published "The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies" in the February issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(4), (with Blaise Cronin, 1st author), "Citation counting, citation ranking, and h-index of human-computer interaction researchers: A comparison between Scopus and Web of Science" in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (with Yvonne Rogers), 59(11), and "MPACT and citation impact: Two sides of the same scholarly coin?" in Library & Information Science Research (with C.R. Sugimoto (1st author), T.G. Russell, and Gary Marchionini). He also assisted two of his students in publishing their final papers in Reference & User Services Quarterly and African Research and Documentation.

Thomas Nisonger, professor emeritus, retired in May. He published "Use of the Checklist Method for Content Evaluation of Full-Text Databases: An Investigation of Two Databases Based on Citations from Two Journals" in Library Resources & Technical Services, 52(1), in January and "The Harvard and Yale University Library Rowing Collections: A Checklist Evaluation and Semi-Availability Study" in Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services in May (with F. William Mehann III).

John Paolillo, associate professor, presented a paper "Longitudinal social network relations in an online multiplayer game" at the International Network for Social Network Analysis Sunbelt XXVIII Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida in January. He gave a talk "Text Chat in a Multiplayer Online Game" at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington and at the University of Washington in Seattle in May (with Susan Herring).

Alice Robbin, associate professor, delivered an invited keynote address at the "ICTs and Society Network Launch Meeting" at the University of Sanzburg, Austria in June. She also gave a research seminar presentation "Information & Communication Behavior at a Political Moment: The Iraq War, March 2003" at the University de la Marne, France in June.

Howard Rosenbaum, Associate Dean and associate professor, published "Revising the conceptualization of computer movements" in The Information Society (with Noriko Hara, 1st author) and "Social Informatics" in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. He presented "iSchools: Mice Roaring or the Future is New Arriving?" at the iConference 2008: iFutures: Systems, Selves, Society at UCLA in Los Angeles, California in February (with Steve Sawyer, 1st author) and "Theorizing community informatics: Memory practices in online communities" (with Elisabeth Davenport). He was a panelist in "CHI, ICIS, SIGIR and Numerous Other Outlets That Won't Accept My Work: The Perils of Publishing Multidisciplinary Research?" and was a mentor in the NSF-sponsored Doctoral Colloquium and Junior Faculty Mentoring program. He gave an invited keynote "Web 2.0, 3.0: After the thrill is gone" at the Faculty Summer institute at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in May. He was appointed to the Editorial Review Board for a special issue of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications on "Social networking and Web 2.0." He is track co-chair for the "Social Aspects of Information Technology" at the Association for Information Systems' America's Conference for Information Systems (AMCIS) (with Laurance Brooks and Roman Brandtweiner) and co-chair of the minitrack "Social Theory in Information Systems Research" (with Pnina Shachaf).

Pnina Shachaf, assistant professor, published "Virtual reference services: Implementation of professional and ethical standards" in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 34(2), in January, "Service equality in virtual reference" in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (with Shannon Oltmann and S. Horowitz) in February, and "Cultural diversity and information and communication technology impacts on global virtual teams: An exploratory study" in Information and Management, 45(2), in March. She published a book chapter "Online peace movement organizations: A comparative analysis" in Social information technology: Connection society and cultural issues, edited by I. Chen and T. Kidd. She gave an invited talk "Are Virtual Reference Services Color Blind?" at the School of Information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in May. She received the 2008 Trustees Teaching Award from the School of Library and Information Science in April. She co-organized a panel "Wiki a la carte: Understanding participation behaviors" at the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology in Columbus, OH in October (with Noriko Hara, Eva Callahan, Susan Herring, B. Stivlia, and Paul Solomon). She is co-chair of the minitrack "Social Theory in Information Systems Research" at AMCIS (with Howard Rosenbaum).

Debora Shaw, professor, published "A new look at evidence of scholarly citation in citation indexes and from web sources" in Scientometrics, 74(2), in March (with Liwen Vaughan).

John Walsh, assistant professor, published "The Digital Index Chemicus: toward a digital tool for studying Isaac Newton's Index Chemicus" in Body, Space & Technology Journal, 7(2), in March (with Cesare Pastorino, 1st author, and Tamara Lopez). He presented a paper "Document-Centric Framework for Navigating Texts Online, or The Intersection of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)" at the TEI Technical Council in March (with Michelle Dalmau). He was awarded the IU Herbert S. White Collaborative Award, which will fund his work on the integration of topic maps and topic map-driven interfaces into digital scholarly editions (with Michelle Dalmau).

Kiduk Yang, assistant professor, published "WIDIT in TREC2007 Blog track: Combining lexicon-based methods to detect opinionated blogs" in the Proceedings of the 16th Text Retrieval Conference (with Ning Yu and Hui Zhang). He gave an invited talk "Impact of Google Scholar on Citation Analysis" at the Citation Tracking and Analysis session of the Special Libraries Association's Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington in June.

Phil Bantin, adjunct faculty and Director of the University Archives, published a book, Understanding Data and Information Systems for Recordkeeping.

Indianapolis

Rachel Applegate, assistant professor, published a book chapter "Renewing the Tech-Forward Library: Information Commons Development at the University Library of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis" in Our New Public, a Changing Clientele: Bewildering Issues or New Challenges for Managing Libraries edited by J. R. Kennedy, L. Vardaman, and G. McCabe in February. She also published "Renewing the Tech-Forward Library. Our New Public: A Changing Clientele" (with David Lewis). She presented "Simple Surveys and You have a Stack of Surveys, Now What?" at the Annual Meeting of the Indiana Library Federation. She was a project evaluator at the ALA-Library Support Staff Certification Program Advisory Committee Meeting in Philadelphia, PA in January.

Jean Preer, professor, published "Promoting Citizenship: How Librarians Helped Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election" in Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43(1), in February. She received the 2007 ALA Justin Winsor Prize for Library History for this article.

Katerine Schilling, assistant professor, published a book chapter "Health Sciences Handbooks and Manuals" in Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences (IRHS), 5th edition, edited by J.T. Huber, J.A. Boorkman, & J. Blackwell in February.

Jinfeng Xia, assistant professor, published an edited book, Scholarly Communication in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, in February. He gave a talk "Open Access for Archaeological Literature: A Manager's Perspective" at the Society of American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia in March. He also gave a talk on "Scholarly Communication in East Asia: Modernization and Traditions" at the Council for East Asian Librarians Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in April.

Sara Laughlin, adjunct faculty, published a book, The Quality Library: A Guide to Self-Improvement, Better Efficiency, and Happier Customers (with R. Wilson).

Mary Stanley, adjunct faculty and Associate Dean of the IUPUI University Library, published a book, Managing Library Employees.

New Faculty member Brings More Semantic Web Expertise to SLIS

SLIS Bloomington will welcome its newest faculty member, Dr. Ying Ding, in the fall of 2008. Prior to joining SLIS, Dr. Ding was a senior researcher for the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where she led the Semantic Web Application Research Unit and was chair of the eTourism working group.

Dr. Ding received her doctorate in information science from the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore in 2000. She also has a Master's degree in Information Science from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering–Information Science from Xi'an Electronic Science and Technology University in Xi'an, China.

Dr. Ding's interests include: "social tagging to improve tag searching, the design of digital libraries, data integration and data mediation using FOAF, Dublin Core, Simple Knowledge Organization Systems and other metadata schemes and social ontologies, ontology engineering, generation and mediation for the semantic web, and applications of the semantic web in e-commerce." She co-edited "Proceedings of the ECAI 2004 Workshop on Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Web Communities" in 2004 and co-authored a book entitled Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce in 2002. She has co-authored 7 book chapters and presented many papers at international conferences.

She has taught classes on Next Web Generation, Semantic Web, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Innsbruck and she has supervised student theses at the doctoral, master's, and bachelor's degree levels.

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SLIS alumni have recently been mailed the Fall 2008 issue of the alumni magazine (SLIS Network, Vol.46, No.2). The theme of this issue was "Scholarships Change Lives." If you did not receive a copy, you can update your alumni address by emailing us at (slisnews@indiana.edu).

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Posted November 13, 2008