Allen H. Renear

1. Graduate School of Library and Information Science
2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. 501 E. Daniel St / Champaign, Illinois 61820
4. Phone: +1 217 265-5216 (office); +1 217 390-9369 (mobile). Email: renear@illinois.edu
5. GSLIS/UIUC web page: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=renear

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I am the Associate Dean for Research and an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I teach courses and lead research in information modeling and digital publishing. Prior to coming to GSLIS in 2001 I was the Director of the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group. I received my AB from Bowdoin College and MA and PhD from Brown University.
[Research] [Selected Publications]

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Research Interests: Ontologies for scientific and cultural objects. Domain ontologies and metadata schemas of particular interest include FRBR, CIDOC-CRM, and DCMI metadata, as well as XML document schemas, particularly the NLM DTD and the TEI. Application areas include scholarly publishing and data curation. Currently topics of active interest are:

• scientific ontologies in STM publishing and data curation workflows
• ontologies for content and digital asset management
• formal semantics for XML schemas
• document identity and version control
• axioms for collection-level/item-level metadata relationships
• MS curriculum for humanities data curation

Some Selected Publications

1. “Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing.” Allen H. Renear, Carole L. Palmer. Science. 325:5942 p. 828 (2009). [AAAS]
2. “Collection/Item Metadata Relationships.” Allen H. Renear, Richard J. Urban, Karen M. Wickett, David Dubin. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. (2008). [DCMI]
3. “Three of the Four FRBR Group 1 Entity Types are Roles not Types.” Allen H. Renear and Dave Dubin. In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2007). [Wiley]
4. “A Logic Programming Environment for Document Semantics and Inference,” David Dubin, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Allen Renear, and Claus Huitfeldt. Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing, 18:1, 39-47 (2003). [OUP].
5. “Towards Identity Conditions for Digital Documents.” Allen H. Renear and David Dubin. In DC-2003: Proceedings of International DCMI Conference and Workshop (2003). [Proceedings].
6. “Towards a Semantics for XML Markup.” Allen H. Renear, David Dubin, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, and Claus Huitfeldt. In R. Furuta, J. I. Maletic, and E. Munson, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, (pp. 119-126), McLean, VA, November. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (2002). [ACM].
7. “Electronic Books and the OEBF Publication Structure.” Allen H. Renear and Dorothea Salo. In The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing pp. 455-520. New York: Columbia University Press (2002).
8. “What is Text, Really?” Steven J. DeRose, David G. Durand, Elli Mylonas, and Allen H. Renear. Journal of Computing in Higher Education 2:1 3-26 (1990). Reprinted in the ACM/SIGDOC *Journal of Computer Documentation 21:3 1-24 (1997). [ACM]
9. “Markup Systems and The Future of Scholarly Text Processing.” James H. Coombs, Allen H. Renear, and Steven J. DeRose. Communications of the ACM, 30:11 933-947 (1987). [ACM].