Christine Borgman

Christine L. Borgman is a Distinguished Research Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies Emerita at UCLA. In addition to the ASIS&T Award of Merit (2019), Borgman was recognized with the ASIST Research in Information Science Award (2010) and the ASIST Best Information Science Book Award (2001, 2008).

Life

Borgman attended Michigan State University where she received a BA in Mathematics. She graduated with her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh (1974) and her PhD in Communication from Stanford University.

Contributions

She joined UCLA in 1983 and has served as chair of the Department of Information Studies (1995-1997) and as the UC Presidential Chair in Information Studies. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute during 2004-05 and a visiting Oliver Smithies Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford during 2012-13.[1]

Borgman was elected to the Council on Library Resources Board of Directors in 1992.[2] She was Program Chair for the First Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (ACM and IEEE). Borgman chaired the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning, whose report, “Fostering Learning in the Networked World,” was released in 2008. She served on the US National Academies’ Board on Research Data and Information, and the US National Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA).[3]

Borgman served as co-P.I. for the NSF-funded Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) project (1999 - 2005).[4][5] She directed the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), an NSF Science and Technology Center that ran from 2002-2012 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Within CENS Borgman led two projects also with NSF funding: CENSEI, for research on data management and policy, and Women@CENS. Borgman also led the Center for Knowledge Infrastructures (CKI) located in the UCLA Department of Information Studies, which conducted research on scientific data practices and policy, scholarly communication, and sociotechnical systems. She is the author of more than 250 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication.

Publications

Books:
- Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (MIT Press, 2015)
- Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007)
- From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000)
Articles:
- Christine L. Borgman & Amy Brand. (2022). Data blind: Universities lag in capturing and exploiting data. Science 378: 1278-1281. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add2734
- Borgman CL, Wofford MF, Golshan MS, & Darch PT. (2021). Collaborative qualitative research at scale: Reflections on 20 years of acquiring global data and making data global. JASIST 72 (6): 667–682. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24439
- Ashley E. Sands, Christine L. Borgman, Sharon Traweek, & Laura A. Wynholds. (2014). We’re Working On It: Transferring the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from Laboratory to Library. International Journal of Digital Curation 9 (2): 98-110. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v9i2.336
- Edwards, P. N., Mayernik, M. S., Batcheller, A. L., Bowker, G. C., & Borgman, C. L. (2011). Science friction: Data, metadata, and collaboration. Social Studies of Science 41 (5): 667-690. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312711413314
- Borgman, C.L. and Furner, J. (2002). Scholarly communication and bibliometrics. ARIST 36: 2-72. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440360102
- Christine L. Borgman, Gregory H. Leazer, Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, & Rich Gazan. (2001). Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Geographic Digital Library for University Students: A Case Study of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT). In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL '01) (pp. 390–401). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. http://doi.org/10.5555/646634.699922
- Borgman, C.L. (1999). Robert R. Korfhage: A personal remembrance from the 1970s. JASIS 50 (4): 289-290. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:4<289::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-S
- Borgman C.L. (1996). "Automation is the answer, but what is the question? Progress and prospects for Central and Eastern European Libraries". Journal of Documentation 52 (3): 252–295. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026969

Awards

Distinguished Schneider Lecture, iSchool, The University of Texas at Austin, 2024
ASIST Award of Merit, 2019
Quello Lecture, College of Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, 2016
American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Computing and Information Sciences, 2016 for Big Data, Little Data, No Data
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2013
University of Pittsburgh’s 225th Anniversary Medallion, 2013
Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Symposium Keynote: "Reproducibility: Gold or Fool's Gold in Digital Social Research?", 2012
Paul Evan Peters Award, 2011
ASIST Research in Information Science Award, 2010
Distinguished Alumni Award, the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2009
Legacy Laureate, University of Pittsburgh, 2009
ASIST Best Information Science Book Award, 2008 for Scholarship in the Digital Age
Distinguished Lectureship Award, New Jersey ASIST Chapter, 2003
ASIST Best Information Science Book Award, 2001 for From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure
OCLC Distinguished Seminar, 2000
Fulbright Scholar at University of Economic Sciences and at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 1993
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS - Information, Computing, and Communication) Fellow, 1989

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