News 2017-2020
Borgman’s perspectives highlighted in UC data management video
Christine Borgman from UCLA, Rick Prelinger from UC Santa Cruz, and Marjorie Zatz from UC Merced were interviewed on issues of research data management in the video project University of California Libraries: Research Data Matters. It is a project of the Data Curation...
Pasquetto presents at 2016 SIG CHI Conference in San Jose
On May 10, graduate student researcher Irene Pasquetto presented Open Data in Scientific Settings: From Policy to Practice at the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which took place in San Jose, May 7-12. This conference paper presents KI team...
Full KI Team participates in Force2016: Randles wins Best Poster Award
The Force 2016 conference sought to analyze and improve scholarly communications. Our KI team contributed with a presentation by Irene Pasquetto, and one poster each by Peter Darch, Ashley Sands, and Bernie Randles. Pasquetto’s presentation The Data Are Open: Can We...
Sands and Golshan present across The Netherlands in February
Doctoral Candidate Ashley Sands and Data Scientist Milena Golshan presented our KI team paper Data Management in the Long Tail: Social and Technical Opportunities at IDCC 2016. As part of an NSF project to conceptualize the Institute for Empowering Long Tail Research,...
NPR reports on Dr. Borgman’s participation in UC-wide privacy and cybersecurity discussion
On March 11, 2016, as part of her work with the University Committee on Academic Computing and Communications (UCACC), Professor Borgman participated in a discussion about a controversial data monitoring system at University of California (UC) campuses ordered by UC...
Borgman awarded 2016 prize for best Computing & Information Sciences book
Congratulations to Christine Borgman! Her new book, Big Data, Little Data, No Data, received this year's award for best Computing & Information Sciences book. The award was presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of...
CKI Advisory Board Meeting held January 22, 2016
On January 22, we hosted our five advisory board members, and Sloan Program Director, for a full day of analysis at the UCLA Department of Information Studies. We thank each of our guests for granting us a full day to thinking through and prioritizing future...
Pasquetto presents research analyzing publicly available data on officer-involved homicides
UCLA KI team member, Irene Pasquetto, was a presenter at the UCLA Information Studies Colloquium on Thursday January 14th. Pasquetto and her colleagues presented their work analyzing the availability and usability Police Officer-Involved Homicides data in Los Angeles....
Sands awarded prize honoring the late Hal Borko
Ashley Sands was recently awarded this year's Hal Borko Student Award. The prize is awarded to an outstanding graduate student in the UCLA Department of Information Studies who exemplifies professor Harold Borko’s dedication to the information professions. Sands also...
UCLA Newsroom features Professor Borgman’s work
Following a story posted on the UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education, UCLA Newsroom featured Dr. Borgman’s research work with the team of students and post-doctoral researchers in the Center for Knowledge Infrastructures. The article, "UCLA scholar...