B-CAP Webinar 1: Dr. Ellen Goodman, April 17 2025
The IMLS-funded Building Community Around Provenance (B-CAP) grant team invites the ASIS&T community to a webinar on “Provenance policy objectives and tactics in the U.S”. The webinar will be held on 17 April 2025 from 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST. Please mark your calendar and click here to get registered!
Abstract:
The webinar is part of a series of events exploring multidisciplinary challenges associated with provenance. Dr. Goodman will explore the strategies of state and proposed federal legislation to address synthetic content harms through labeling and provenance mandates and/or nudges, arguing that the policies have design, implementation, and legal problems.
Speaker:
Dr. Ellen P. Goodman, @ellgood, is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School and Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. She recently served as Senior Advisor for Algorithmic Justice at NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce. At Rutgers, she co-directs and co-founded the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law (RIIPL) and was prior to government service a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. Goodman has published widely on media and telecommunications law, smart cities and algorithmic governance, freedom of expression, and advertising law. She served in the Obama Administration as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the Federal Communications Commission and has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania. Goodman has received grants from the Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation, Democracy Fund, and Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for work on digital platform regulation, transparency, advancing new public media models, and public interest journalism. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Goodman was a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, where she practiced in the information technology area. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, clerked for Judge Norma Shapiro on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and has three grownish children.
See more about our IMLS project here.
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B-CAP Event 1: CRMS @ ASIST 2024, Calgary
An essential part of our provenance work is building a community of practice around provenance challenges. As part of our community building plan, we proposed the notion of CRMs (pronounced ‘crumbs’), or community reinforcement meetings to build bridges, solidarity, and working relationships between the many practitioners and scholars who generously share their time and expertise with us. Our first CRM of the IMLS B-CAP project will take place at ASIS&T 2024 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Join us at the Hyatt for some real Tim Hortons crumbs and conversations about provenance and future grant-funded events. Please reach out to Rhiannon or Jessica if we’ll be seeing you in Canada!
IMLS Funds New Project to Address Provenance Gaps and Needs
Rutgers School of Communication and Information congratulates Dr. Cheng and colleagues on the funding of their IMLS Grant, Building Community Around Provenance. Read the press release here.
Join us at ASIS&T 2024 in Calgary!
Jessica and Rhiannon will join Drs. Inkyung Choi (OCLC) and Wan-Chen Lee (UW-Milwaukee), along with doctoral candidate B.M. Watson (UBC) to discuss the intersections of provenance and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs).
Panel Abstract: This panel is situated at the intersections of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and provenance research. In this panel, we will share experiences and challenges in documenting the changes of a KOS The panelists will provide real-world examples drawn from their research and practice. These examples range from KOSs used in LIS, such as the Dewey Decimal Classifications, Homosaurus, and Library of Congress Subject Headings; to extended information science research fields, such as digital preservation metadata standards, biodiversity taxonomies, and ontologies. Currently, the models and practices for documenting changes in KOSs fall short in supporting even simple provenance queries like “who made the change?”, “what are the reasons for the change?”, or “when was the change made?”. The panelists will collectively discuss examples of queries we have faced, as well as the implications for provenance for KOS research and practice.
Rhiannon will also co-host an alternative event designed to foster conversation about the relationship between infrastructure studies and information science, with co-hosts Danielle Maurici-Pollock (UNM), Rebecca Stallworth (Simmons), and Rachel Williams (USC). Come help us build physical and digital siphonophorae to help visualize the hidden challenges of infrastructure studies!
Upcoming Related Event: Storytelling Strategies for Research Communication, MAY 15 2024
2024-05-15
Dr. Kate McDowell’s work on storytelling has greatly informed our research on the relationship between persuasion, accuracy, and provenance. Dr. McDowell will be giving a talk for @tandfonline about how researchers can better communicate their process and the results of the work. Visit the website for more information on this free event!
Introducing… Dr. DOCTOR Gryk!
2024-05-03
We are so excited to congratulation Michael Gryk on the successful defense of his second PhD thesis, entitled Explorations in Provenance in the Information Sciences at the University of Illinois iSchool. Dr. Dr. Gryk defended his thesis with committee Bertram Ludäscher, Rhiannon Bettivia, J. Stephen Downie, and Michael Twidale. Champagne (Champaign!) toasts all around!
