2011 Harvard Digital Scholarship Summit: Keynote - Christine Borgman (UCLA)

How is research being made available in formal and informal ways and what can be done now to make it available for future scholars?Christine L. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. She is the author of more than 200 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication. Both of her sole-authored monographs, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), have won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is a lead investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Systems (CENS), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, where she conducts data practices research. Current collaborations include Monitoring, Modeling, and Memory and the Data Conservancy. She is a member of the U.S. National Academies' Board on Research Data and Information and the U.S. National CODATA, the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the 2011 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalitionfor Networked Information, Association for Research Libraries, and EDUCAUSE.

May 5, 2011