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Christine
L. Borgman
Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies |
| Email:
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borgman
at gseis.ucla.edu |
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(310)
825-6164 |
| Fax:
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(310)
206-4460 |
| Office:
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235
GSE&IS Building
Box 951520, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 |
| Areas:
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Scholarly
communication, digital libraries, scientific information, information
seeking, information retrieval, information policy, infrastructure,
human-computer interaction, bibliometrics |
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Education:
Bachelor
of Arts, Mathematics, Michigan
State University
Master of Library Science, University
of Pittsburgh
Ph.D., Communication, Stanford
University
![Scholarship in a Digital Age [image]](PubDA-sml.jpg)
Announcment:
My latest book, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet was published in October 2007 by the MIT Press. The book examines the roles that information technology plays at every stage in the life cycle of a research project and contrasts these new capabilities with the relatively stable system of scholarly communication, which remains based on publishing in journals, books, and conference proceedings.
Research
Interests:
My current
research clusters in two areas. One is empirical research on
the creation, use, and management of scientific data and its
implications for science policy.This research is associated
with the Center
for Embedded Networked Sensing and with the CENSEI
Project. As scholarship in all fields becomes more data-intensive
and collaborative, the ability to share, compare, and reuse
data becomes ever more essential. Data increasingly are seen
as research products in themselves, and as valuable forms of
scientific capital. Technologies such as embedded sensor networks
are contributing to the "data deluge." Our research
addresses data characteristics, data sharing, data policy, and
data architecture. The goals are to apply knowledge of scientific
data practices to the design of data collection and management
tools, and to the design and policy of information services
for research and Education.
The empirical
research on scientific data is one of many inputs to my second
area of interest, which is analytical work on the changing nature
of scholarship in an environment of ubiquitous computer networks
and digital information. These threads are combined in my latest
book, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, The MIT
Press, 2007. I examine the origins of cyberinfrastructure
and e-Science, the evolution of scholarly communication and
scholarly publishing, and the role of digital data in new forms
of research. Then I compare behavior and policy issues for publishing
and for data, draw comparisons between disciplines in resources
and practices, and lay out a research agenda for digital scholarship.
The book draws upon literature from information studies, computer
science, social studies of science and technology, sociology,
communication, economics, law, science policy, Education, history,
and the constituent disciplines under study.
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