Selected Recent Publications and Presentations

Scientific and Scholarly Information Work  

Palmer, Carole L., & Cragin, Melissa H. (2008). Scholarship and Disciplinary Practices. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 42.

Palmer, Carole L., Cragin, Melissa H., and Hogan, Timothy P. (2007). Weak Information Work in Scientific Discovery. Information Processing and Mangement 43 no. 3: 808-820.

Heidorn, P. Bryan, Palmer, Carole L., & Wright, Dan. (2007). Biological Information Specialists for Biological Informatics. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2(1).doi:10.1186/1747-5333-2-1

Palmer, Carole L., Cragin, Melissa H., Heidorn, P. Bryan, Smith, Linda C. (2007). Studies of Data Curation for the Long Tail of Science. 3rd International Digital Curation Conference, 1-13 December 2007 in Washington DC.

Palmer, Carole L. (2007). Adapting Digital Information to Scientific Practices. International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers STM Spring Conference: The Next Generation: Endless Choices & Economic Constraints. Cambridge, MA, 24-26 April 2007.

Palmer, Carole. (2006). Weak Information Work and 'Doable' Problems in Interdisciplinary Science. Proceedings of the 69th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 3-8 November 2006, Austin, Texas.

Palmer, Carole L. (2005). Scholarly Work and the Shaping of Digital Access. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 56, no. 11: 1140-1153.

Palmer, Carole L., Cragin, Melissa H., and Hogan, Timothy P. (2004). Information at the Intersections of Discovery: Case Studies in Neuroscience. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology annual meeting 41: 448-455.

Palmer, Carole L. and Neumann, Laura. (2002). The Information Work of Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholars: Exploration and Translation. Library Quarterly 72 (January): 85-117.

Palmer, Carole L. (2001). Work at the Boundaries of Science: Information and the Interdisciplinary Research Process. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Brockman, William S., Neumann, Laura, Palmer, Carole L., and Tidline, Tonyia. (2001). Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment. Washington, D.C.: Digital Library Federation and the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Collections & Metadata 

Palmer, Carole L. Investing in Collection Representation for More Useful Repositories.Proceedings of the 70th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 19-24 October 2007, Milwaukee, WI.
Palmer, Carole L., Knutson, Ellen, Twidale, Michael, Zavalina, Oksana. (In press). Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development. Proceedings of the 69th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 3-8 November 2006, Austin, Texas.

Palmer, Carole L. (2004). Thematic Research Collections. In Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 348-365.

Shreeves, S.L., Knutson, E.M., Stvilia, B., Palmer, C.L., Twidale, M.B., & Cole, T.W. (2005). Is ‘quality' metadata ‘shareable' metadata? The implications of local metadata practice on federated collections. In H.A. Thompson (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 7-10 2005, Minneapolis, MN . Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Palmer, Carole L., and Knutson, Ellen. (2004). Metadata Practices and Implications for Federated Collections. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology annual meeting, 41: 456-462.

Palmer,Carole L. (2004). Standards Adoption and Knowledge-Sharing: A Study of Projects from  the IMLS National Leadership Grants Program, 1998-2003. 67th American Society for Information Science and Technology annual meeting, Providence RI.

Palmer, Carole L. and Malone, Cheryl Knott. (2001) Elaborate Isolation: Metastructures of Knowledge about Women. The Information Society, v. 17, no. 3 (July-September): 179-194

Data Curation 

Heidorn, P.B., Palmer, C.L., Cragin, M.H., & Smith, L.C. (2007). Data Curation Education and Biological Information Specialists. DigCCurr2007: An International Symposium on Digital Curation, April 18-20, 2007, Chapel Hill, NC.

Cragin, M.H., Heidorn, P.B., Palmer, C.L., & Smith, L.C. (2007). An Educational Program on Data Curation. Poster Session at the Science and Technology Section program: Issues and Trends in Digital Repositories of Non-textual Information: Support for Research and Teaching. ALA Annual Conference, June 21-27, 2007, Washington D.C.

Heidorn, P. Bryan, Palmer, Carole L., Wright, Dan & Cragin, Melissa. (2007). Information Specialist’s Training in Biology. Poster at Plant Science and Botany 2007 Conference, July 7-11, 2007, Chicago.

Heidorn, P. Bryan, Palmer, Carole L., Wright, Dan & Cragin, Melissa. (2007). Biological Information Specialist’s Training. Poster for the 2nd International BioCuration Meeting, San Jose, California, October 25 - 28, 2007.

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