News 2017-2020
February 25: Book Signing for Dr. Borgman’s New Book “Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World”
We invite you to a panel discussion and book signing for Professor Borgman's new book Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World. The event will take place on Feb 25, 2015 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM at the YRL Presentation Room 11348. Full-text...
IDRE Newsletter features Data Governance Task Force co-chaired by Kent Wada and Christine Borgman
The Academic Senate-Administration data governance task force was formed to recommend a campus governance mechanism in response to the increasing demand for data about UCLA students, faculty and staff. Kent Wada, Director, Strategic IT Policy and Chief Privacy...
Irene Pasquetto, KI team member, recognized in UCLA’s Ampersand
The PhD student Irene Pasquetto talks about the UCLA IS student-led Hackathon (February 14, 12 pm - 5 pm, 1302 Perloff Hall) and about her work with our KI team on open access and data sharing. Read more: Irene Pasquetto: Doctoral Student Explores Databases as Tools...
UCLA’s Ampersand talks with Dr. Borgman about her new book
Professor Borgman’s new book “Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World” is featured in the latest issue of Ampersand. Read more: Christine Borgman: New Book Examines Better Ways to Manage Data Book Signing: Feb. 25, 2015, 4 pm - 6 pm, YRL...
Ashley Sands presents at the 225th AAS Meeting in Seattle, WA
On January 8th, our doctoral candidate Ashley Sands gave a presentation “Managing Astronomy Research Data: Case Studies of Big and Small Research Projects” at the 225th American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting in Seattle, WA. The presentation focused on the aspects...
Professor Borgman presents at 2015 FaceBase Annual Meeting
During the 2015 FaceBase Annual Meeting in Marina del Rey, CA, Professor Borgman gave a presentation “Why are data sharing and reuse so difficult?” Dr. Borgman discussed issues related to generating and sharing research data and presented the work of our UCLA...
Sands presents poster at the IEEE e-Science conference in Brazil
On October 20th, our graduate student researcher and doctoral candidate, Ashley Sands, presented her poster “Managing Astronomy Research Data: Case studies of big and small research projects” at the 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Science in Guarujá, Brazil....
New KI publication in the International Journal of Digital Curation
The article “We’re Working On It: Transferring the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from Laboratory to Library” by Sands, Borgman, Traweek and Wynholds is now published and accessible on the IJDC website. The article describes the transfer of a large scientific dataset from a...
Borgman gives a colloquium at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
On October 27, Professor Borgman gave a colloquium: The Knowledge Infrastructure of Astronomy. This talk was focused on the broad adoption of common tools, standards, and technologies which enabled astronomers to construct important infrastructure components. The...
Professor Borgman speaks at RDA Fourth Plenary Meeting
In her keynote “Data, Data, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink”, Professor Borgman discussed practice and policy issues of data stewardship. The keynote was presented at the Research Data Alliance Fourth Plenary Meeting in Amsterdam. Read more on the OpenAIRE blog:...