Archives and Digital Curation
Research Group
About
Archival and information science theories and methods hold abiding value for exploring knowledge-intensive aspects of society, such as cultural heritage (libraries, archives, and museums), academic scholarship, government, health, and education. Our interdisciplinary research group investigates complex socio-technical problems related to information and digital curation, access, use, and discovery employing a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Our members work in a variety of research areas:
Archival studies
Information literacy and education
Data literacy, curation, sharing, and reuse
Digital preservation and curation
Human rights and social justice
Information accessibility
Information quality
Information seeking behavior
Knowledge infrastructure
Museum informatics
Recordkeeping practices
Recent research:
Kim, J., Yakel, E., and Faniel, I.M. (2019) Exposing Standardization and Consistency Issues in Repository Metadata Requirements for Data Deposition. College & Research Libraries, v. 80, n. 6, p. 843-875. https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/23531/30840
Faniel, I., Frank, R. and Yakel, E. (2019), "Context from the Data Reuser’s Point of View", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 75 No. 6, pp. 1274-1297. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2018-0133 Available URL: https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2019/context-from-data-reuser-point-of-view.html
Smith, C. L. and Rieh, S. Y. (2019). Knowledge-Context in search systems: Toward information-literate actions. Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR ’19), 55-62. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/148270
Frank, R. D. (2019). The Social Construction of Risk in Digital Preservation. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24247 Available via: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/149147
Guberek, T., Muralles, V., & Alpert-Abrams, H. (2019). Scaling Access to State Records of Repression: The Role of Digitalization in Guatemala’s Historic Archive of the National Pice, . International Journal of Transitional Justice, 13(1), 50-70. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijy035
Frank, R. D., Tyler, A. R. B., Gault, A., Suzuka, K., & Yakel, E. (2018). Issues of Privacy in Qualitative Data Reuse. International Journal of Digital Curation, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v13i1.492. Available via: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/148322
Conway, P. & Askew, K. (2018). “From International Shortwave to Digital Rebroadcast: Transforming Music Time in Africa for a New Worldwide Audience.” IASA Journal Issue 48.
Thomer, A. K., Yoder, M. J., & Twidale, M. B. (2018). Transforming Taxonomic Interfaces: "Arm's Length" Cooperative Work and the Maintenance of a Long-lived Classification System. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2 (CSCW), 173. https://doi.org/10.1145/3274442
Faniel, I., Kansa, S., Austin, A., Boytner, R., France, P, Jacobs, J.E., Kansa, E. and Yakel, E. (2018). Beyond the Archive: Bridging Data Creation and Reuse in Archaeology, Advances in Archaeological Practice 6/2.
Thomer, A. K., Wickett, K. M., Baker, K. S., Fouke, B. W., & Palmer, C. L. (2018). Documenting provenance in noncomputational workflows: Research process models based on geobiology fieldwork in Yellowstone National Park. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24039
York, J., Gutmann, M., & Berman, F. (2018). What Do We Know about the Stewardship Gap. Data Science Journal, 17, 19. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2018-019
Frank, R. D., Chen, Z., Crawford, E., Suzuka, K., & Yakel, E. (2017). Trust in Qualitative Data Repositories. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 102–111. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401012.
Guberek, T., Hedstrom, M. (2017). On or Off the Record?: Detecting Patterns of Silence about Death in Guatemala's National Police Archive. Archival Science 17, 27-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10502-017-9274-3