News 2017-2020
UCLA Post-Doctoral Research Position to Study Data and Software Practices in Science
One-year appointment beginning October 1, 2017, with possibility for renewal to summer 2019. Posted June 14, 2017; review of applications begins July 15, 2017; submission deadline is July 30, 2017. The UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures seeks a postdoctoral...
Dr. Borgman presents at the UCLA Astrophysics Journal Club
On March 7, Professor Christine Borgman presented our latest paper to faculty and students at the Astrophysics Journal Club. The paper, The Durability and Fragility of Knowledge Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Astronomy, is a result of a continuous study of...
Professor Borgman participates in a Digital Humanities panel at the GSE&IS InterActions Symposium on Big Data
Dr. Christine Borgman took part in the final panel of the Symposium on Big Data organized by InterActions, the UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. The panel Making, Curating and Engaging Data also served as a UCLA Digital Humanities Seminar. Professor...
Golshan presents a case study of DANS at KnoweScape 2017
On February 22, the CKI data scientist Milena Golshan presented at KnoweScape 2017 a keynote about our case study of the Data Archiving and Networking Services of the Netherlands (DANS). As part of our research work on DANS, we analyze the uses, users, policy, and...
The Annual CKI Advisory Board Meeting held February 10, 2017
On February 10, we hosted our Advisory Board Members and Sloan Program Director for a full-day meeting and discussion at the UCLA Department of Information Studies. We thank our guests for their support and guidance in analyzing our work and planning our future steps....
Teach-in & Workshop: Protecting Climate Data, Jan. 20, GSEIS, UCLA
The Center for Knowledge Infrastructures co-organize and co-sponsor with the UCLA Department of Information Studies a Teach-in & Workshop event to sustain access to essential data on climate change. Date: 9am-3pm, January 20, 2017 Location: Dept. of Information...
Professor Borgman presents at ASIS&T 2016 in Copenhagen
Dr. Christine Borgman presented at ASIS&T 2016 the latest conference paper of the Knowledge Infrastructures team: The Durability and Fragility of Knowledge Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Astronomy. In her presentation, Professor Borgman summarized the...
Dr. Borgman gives a presentation at Michigan State University
On October 5, 2016, Professor Christine Borgman gave a seminar presentation at the Quello Center on Media, Communication, and Information Policy, Michigan State University. In her lecture Motivations for Sharing and Reusing Data: Complexities and Contradictions in the...
Pasquetto reports on SciDataCon for CODATA blog: Open data, reuse, and data challenges in the biomedical field
In her posts for CODATA blog, our PhD student Irene Pasquetto reports on SciDataCon 2016 and discusses issues related to open data and to data challenges in the biomedical field. Read the blog posts: Open Data as a Moving Target: What Does it Take to Allow Reuse? How...
Borgman and Pasquetto present at SciDataCon 2016 in Denver
Professor Christine Borgman gave a number of presentations during SciDataCon 2016, September 12-13, Denver, Colorado. She was a session organizer of a panel discussion How, When, and Why are Data Open? Competing Perspectives on Open Data in Science. Dr. Borgman...