About CIRSSBased at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) conducts research on information problems that impact scientific and scholarly inquiry. Our projects and activities focus on how digital information can advance the work of scientists and scholars, the curation and analysis of research data, and the integration of information within and across disciplines and research communities. CIRSS plays a leading role in the development and management of the data curation specialty master’s curriculum, and in training biological information specialists as part of the campus-wide bioinformatics master’s program. Within CIRSS, the Socio-technical Data Analytics (SoDA) Group design, develop, and evaluate new technologies in order to better understand the dynamic interplay between information, people and information systems.This work includes studies of scientific data management, of scientific publishing and communication, of collections management, and the use of new digital tools in the scientific research process. Research methods are varied from in-depth empirical examinations of scientists in the workplace to natural language processing and statistical analysis of scientific publications to logic-based semantic web approaches and managing collection context. Research topics generally fall across four main areas of study: Digital Collections and Curation, Digital Humanities, e-Science, and Socio-technical Data Analytics. Recent research topics include studies of data curation requirements in bioinformatics and e-science; integration of ontologies with scientific publishing; institutional repository development; OAI federation of cultural heritage collections; and literary text mining and analysis.Center for Informatics Research in Science and ScholarshipCIRSS_f5e944ac-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe8School of Information Sciencesat the University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignCIRSS AdministratorsBertram LudäscherCIRSS Director -- Director of CIRSS, and Professor at the iSchool, NCSA, and the Department of Computer Science. He conducts research in scientific data management, scientific workflows, and data provenance. His research interests also include foundations of databases, knowledge representation, and reasoning. Ludäscher applies this work in a number of domains, e.g., biodiversity informatics and taxonomy.Catherine BlakeAssociate Director -- Cathy Blake is the Associate Director of CIRSS and an Associate Professor at the iSchool. She conducts research on both human and automated processes surrounding information synthesis and discovery.CIRSS PersonnelJanet EkeAssistant DirectorMegan SenseneyResearch ScientistQian ZhangPost-doctoral Research AssociateSayan BhattacharyyaPost-doctoral Research AssociateTimothy ColeCoordinator for Library Applications at CIRSS, Mathematics Librarian and Professor of Library AdministrationTimothy McPhillipsSoftware DeveloperYang CaoPost-doctoral Research AssociateCIRSS Affiliated FacultyMasooda BashirAssistant Professor, School of Information SciencesMaria BonnSenior Lecturer, School of Information SciencesIan BrooksResearch Scientist, School of Information SciencesPeter DarchAssistant Professor, School of Information SciencesJana DiesnerAssistant Professor, School of Information SciencesJ. Stephen DownieProfessor, Associate Dean for Research, School of Information SciencesDavid DubinResearch Associate Professor, School of Information SciencesMiles EfronAssociate Professor, School of Information SciencesBruce FoukeProfessor, Institute for Genomic BiologyLes GasserProfessor, School of Information SciencesHarriett GreenEnglish and Digital Humanities Librarian, University LibraryBrant HoustonProfessor, College of MediaDaniel S. KatzAssistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications, NCSA, Research Associate Professor, iSchoolJerome McDonoughAssociate Professor, School of Information SciencesAllen RenearProfessor and Dean, School of Information SciencesJodi SchneiderAssistant Professor, School of Information SciencesLinda SmithProfessor, Associate Dean, School of Information SciencesVictoria StoddenAssociate Professor, School of Information SciencesVetle TorvikAssistant Professor, School of Information SciencesMatt TurkResearch Scientist, NCSA, Assistant Research Professor of Astronomy, AstronomyMichael TwidaleProfessor, School of Information SciencesTed UnderwoodProfessor of English, Liberal Arts and Sciences Centennial ScholarMatt YoderBiological Informatician, Illinois Natural History SurveyCIRSS StudentsCaryn AndersonResearch Assistant, VA ProjectKaren BakerResearch Assistant, CIRSSJessica (Yi-Yun) ChengResearch Assistant, ETCKrystal CooperGraduate Assistant, CIRSSKatrina FenlonResearch Assistant, WCSA & CIRSSHenry GabbResearch Assistant, SODAMichael GrykResearch AssistantLinh HoangResearch AssistantMax IsenholtResearch Assistant, SODAJacob JettResearch Assistant, SBDC & WCSAAna LucicResearch Assistant, SODAPeter OrganisciakResearch Assistant, IIRAndrea ThomerResearch Assistant, SBDCCheryl ThompsonResearch Assistant, CIRSSCIRSS Affiliated ResearchersSayeed ChoudhuryAssociate Director of Library Digital Programs at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, past iSchool research fellow, and co-PI on the IMLS Site-based Data Curation Project.Melissa CraginStaff Associate at the National Science Foundation, collaborates with CIRSS on digital collections & curation activities, including the Data Conservancy and Data Curation Education Program projects.Trevor MuñozAssociate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research at the University of Maryland Libraries.Carole L. PalmerFounding Director of CIRSS, Professor Emerita at the iSchool, and Professor at the University of Washington's Information School. Carole Palmer investigates problems in scientific and scholarly information work, development of large-scale digital research collections, and barriers to interdisciplinary inquiry, and has been leading education initiatives in data curation since 2005.Maria SoudenAssociate Director for Communications at VA Information Resource Center (VIReC), Veteran AdministrationJohn M. UnsworthPast Dean at the iSchool, is Vice Provost, Chief Information Office, University Librarian, and a Professor of English at Brandeis University. He 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. CIRSS Affiliated FellowsPeter FoxFox is currently PI for the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO), the Semantically-Enabled Scientific Data Integration, and Semantic Provenance Capture in Data Ingest Systems projects. Since 1985 Fox has been bridging science and distributed data. He joined the Tetherless World Constellation in 2008. Formerly, he was the Chief Computational Scientist at the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Fox's research specializes in the fields of solar and solar-terrestrial physics, computational and computer science, information technology, and grid-enabled, distributed semantic data frameworks. The dynamic interplay between information, people and information systems is better understood ..._f5e945d8-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe8To conduct research on information problems that impact scientific and scholarly inquiry._f5e946b4-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe8Socio-Technical Data AnalyticsDesign, develop, and evaluate new technologies in order to better understand the dynamic interplay between information, people and information systems._f5e94f88-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe81Socio-Technical Data Analytics GroupFaculty, researchers and students in the Socio-technical Data Analytics Group design, develop, and evaluate new technologies in order to better understand the dynamic interplay between information, people and information systems. We are a highly interactive group with complementary areas of interest that span a range of genres from the humanities and everyday life, to journalism and scientific literature. Our expertise includes analysis methods in information retrieval, data and text mining, knowledge discovery, and collaboration. In addition to text analysis, we explore multimedia such as games and music, and new kinds of data such as twitter feeds.AnalysisStudy and develop analysis methods in information retrieval, data and text mining, knowledge discovery, and collaboration._f5e95046-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe81.1MultimediaExplore multimedia such as games and music, and new kinds of data such as twitter feeds._f5e95047-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe81.2Digital Collections & CurationBuild, represent, and make accessible research collections._f5e95048-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe82CIRSS projects in this sector focus on how to build, represent, and make accessible research collections, with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with the curation and federation of digital collections for long-term, distributed use. The ongoing funded research projects are complemented by a study group dedicated to metadata standards and associated research problems.Long-Term UseAddress challenges and opportunities associated with the curation and federation of digital collections for long-term, distributed use._f5e95049-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe82.1MetadataStudy metadata standards and associated research problems._f5e9504a-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe82.2Digital HumanitiesCarry out digital projects related to the humanities_f5e9504b-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe83Current projects cover different aspects of electronic publishing, markup schemas, text-mining and analysis, and music information retrieval. Digital humanities is an area of significant interest and growth as a complement to the CIRSS concentration in scientific communication.Electronic PublishingPublish electronically_f5e950be-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe83.1Markup SchemasApply markup schemas_f5e951ae-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe83.2Text-Mining & SnalysisMine and analyze text_f5e95938-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe83.3Music Retrieve music information_f5e95939-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe83.4MusiciansE-ScienceUnderstand, assess, and coordinate information resources, informatics tools, and scholarly communications _f5e9593a-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe84Research ScientistsInformation SpecialistsGiven the ever growing universe of information resources, informatics tools, and scholarly communication options that need to be understood, assessed, and coordinated, the e-Science initiatives at CIRSS aim to improve information transfer and integration, technology development and sustainability, and collaboration in the practice of science through basic and applied research and training of information specialists to work cooperatively with research scientists. Scientific data problems do not stand in isolation. They are part of a larger set of challenges associated with escalated production of scientific information and changes in scholarly communication in the digital environment. Across all scientific disciplines, researchers are producing and consuming increasing amounts and varieties of information and data, while striving to work with these resources in new ways. This has lead to daunting problems and opportunities for information management and integration. There are numerous challenges associated with the amount and rate of data being generated; however, the complexity of the underlying science is of greater consequence for scientific discovery than the sheer volume of the data.Information Transfer & IntegrationImprove information transfer and integration_f5e9593b-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe84.1Technology Development & SustainabilityImprove technology development and sustainability_f5e9593c-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe84.2Scientific CollaborationImprove collaboration in the practice of science _f5e9593d-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe84.3ResearchConduct basic and applied research_f5e9593e-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe84.3.1TrainingTrain information specialists to work cooperatively with research scientists._f5e9593f-feed-11e6-b3a0-56077fe62fe84.3.2Information SpecialistsResearch Scientists2017-03-01http://cirss.ischool.illinois.edu/about.phpOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net