Recent Journal Publications
- Craft, ambiguity, and liminality in scientific information creation, Journal of Documentation, in press
- Wind, water, and wi-fi: New trends in community informatics and disaster management, The Information Society, 2008, 24, 116-120.
- Order from chaos: the poetics and pragmatics of scientific recordkeeping, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2007, 58, 1457-1466. [pdf]
- Scientific data collections as distributed collective practice, with Melissa Cragin, Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2006, 15. 2-3. 185-204 [pdf]
- Recordkeeping in the production of scientific knowledge: An ethnographic study, Archival Science, 2006, 4, 367-382. [pdf]
- Remembering and forgetting: Exploring the role of the record in conducting scientific research, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the History and Heritage of Scientific Information Systems, W. Boyd Rayward and Mary Ellen Bowden, eds. , 2002, ASIS&T Monograph Series, 118-126.
Book Chapters
- Biomedical information and its users, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, forthcoming
- Information in times of crisis: Considering knowledge management for disaster management, with David J. Wild, Jaesoon An, Sheetal Narayanan, and Sam Shoulder, in Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet: Making Value from Information Exchange, IDEA Books, ed. Ettore Bolisani, in press
Invited Presentations, Papers, and Book Chapters
- Contemporary concerns in the ethnography of documents, Contemporary Ethnography, under preparation
- Social and ethical barriers to data sharing in the biomedical sciences, Expanding Secondary Uses of Biomedical Data, Portland, Oregon, December 4-5, 2007 (National Science Foundation)
- Emerging technologies and implications for recordkeeping, Sokendai University and KEK, Japan August 20-23, 2007 (National Science Foundation)
- Data management and recordkeeping as daily work: Gaps in knowledge and implications for LND, G.I.T. Laboratory Journal, 5, 2006, 8-12.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
- Two takes on virtual design: The construction of expertise and embodied design in Second Life design teams, American Society for Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 22, 2007 (with Shaowen Bardzell)
- Scientists, data, and hybrid technologies, Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, Canada, October 11, 2007
- Memory practices in times of crisis: The BECIS system, Communities and Technology, E. Lansing, Michigan, June 28, 2007 (with Jaesoon An)
- Video game technologies and virtual design: A study of virtual design teams in a metaverse, Human Computer Interaction International 2007, Beijing, China, July 26, 2007 (with Shaowen Bardzell)
- Wind, water, and Wi-Fi: Documenting grassroots efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Vancouver, BC, November 4, 2006
- Future directions in expertise studies, April 8, 2006, Cain Conference, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA.
- Distributed scientific data: social and organizational challenges, March 31, 2006. Systems seminar, Department of Computer Science, Indiana University-Bloomington
- Constructing autonomy: Pervasive computing and home health care, December 4, 2005, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University-Bloomington
- Birds, bees, and rechnologies: Citizen science and the nature of expertise, Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science, October 2, 2005
- The Chemical Informatics laboratory of the future with David L. Wild at Eli Lilly, April 28, 2005
- Pervasive computing and home health care: Whose values are we designing for?, American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, October 29, 2005
- Data, data everywhere: fostering autonomy and agency in ubiquitous computing, International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, February 20-22, 2005, Berkeley, CA.