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: 217 265-5216 (office); 217 390-9369 (mobile). Email: renear@uiuc.edu
5. GSLIS/UIUC web page: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=renear
6. Personal web page (this one): http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~renear/renearcv.html
7. Curriculum Vitae

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• Research Interests
• Education
• Academic Positions
• Publications
• Presentations
• Professional Activities
• Awards and Honors
• Grants
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Research Interests

My research focuses on theoretical problems in ontologies for scientific and cultural objects. Domain ontologies of current interest include FRBR, DCMI metadata, CIDOC-CRM, and FRBRoo, as well as XML document schemas, particularly the NLM DTD and the TEI. Application areas include content management, digital publishing, digital asset management, data curation, and scientific communication. Typically we use logic-based methods of analysis, either hunting for problems or exploring strategies for improving (semantic) expressiveness, interoperability, and functionality. Applications of particular interest include how to better integrate the data models and ontologies currently being developed in the sciences and humanities into the global STM publishing system, supporting tools that will help researchers better exploit scientific literature. Other specific topics of current interest include:

• techniques for adding formal semantics to existing XML schemas
• strategies for document identity and version control
• ontology development for content and digital asset management, (especially FRBR releated strategies)
• exploitation of scientific ontologies within STM publishing
• content workflow and delivery systems for data curation and scientific communication
• new patterns in user behavior in searching/browsing environments for scientific literature.
• axioms for collection-level/item-level metadata relationships, for both scientific and cultural data
• formalization of lineage and provenance in data curation and digital asset management

In addition I am interested in logic-based foundations for a formal theory of information systems.

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Education

• Ph.D. and A.M., 1988, Philosophy, Brown University
  Specializations: logic, epistemology, ontology. Advisor: Roderick M. Chisholm.
• A.B., 1972, Philosophy, Bowdoin College

Professional Positions

• Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor, The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2001-present.
  • Research: co-lead, GSLIS Electronic Publishing Research Group (EPRG) — research on information modeling, digital publishing, ontologies for content management and scientific communication.
  • Teaching: Courses in digital publishing, document modeling, information modeling, and formal ontologies for scientific and cultural information.
  • Service: GSLIS Executive Committee, Doctoral Studies Committee.
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science, Brown University. January 2001-July 2002.
• Director and co-founder. Scholarly Technology Group (STG), Computing and Information Services, Brown University 1993-2000. An applied research, development, and consulting group focusing on issues in the application of information technology to academic research, instruction, and scholarly communication, and provided consulting and project management services. STG technical specialities included textbase development, digital library technologies, electronic books, interactive hypermedia systems, and humanities computing. During this period STG grew to a staffing level of 20 professionals, and operated with full cost recovery from r&d and service contracts with industry, university, and public sector partners.
  • Chair, Publication Structure Working Group (PSWG), Open eBook Forum [now International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)], May 2000-2005. PSWG developed the Open eBook Publication Structure [now Open Publication Structure (OPS)], a content format for electronic books.
  • President, The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 1998-2001.
  • Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Oxford University Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University, March 1, 1998 - September 30, 1998. Research on knowledge representation and document ontology applied to inquiry in the humanities. Lecture series [ x] on text encoding.
  • Director, Brown University Women Writers Project (WWP), Brown University. An SGML/TEI textbase project developing encoding techniques to support a multipurpose (research, teaching, publishing) textbase of pre-Victorian (1330-1830) writing by women, including XML/TEI-based internet publishing [WWP Online]. Technology lead 1988-90; Co-Director 1992-1993; Acting Director 1993-1994; Director from 1998 to 2001; Member of the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board 2001-present.
  • Director (interim), Technology and Communication, Northeast and Islands Educational Laboratory at Brown University, 1995-1996; a large federally funded consortium conducting applied R&D in K-12 education. STG was contracted to develop original organizational design and technology strategy, including research, client services (state and district level), and researcher support, resulting in the development of a distributed scientific collaboration and dissemination system for a consortium of eight research organizations as well as policy-makers and practitioners in seven states and two territories.
• Computing and Information Services (CIS), Brown University; 1984-92.
  • Senior Academic Planning Analyst (1990-92): University-wide strategic planning for academic information technology.
  • Senior Consultant/Analyst (1987-90): Project management and systems analysis for projects applying information technology to teaching and research, specializing in humanities and social science; led development of the university's departmental planning method; coordinated annual technology planning for fifteen humanities and social science departments.
  • User Services Specialist (1984-86): Consulting, systems analysis, and project management for computing in research, teaching, and publishing; specific responsibility for SGML/XML textbases and electronic publishing projects, including installation and maintenance of university text processing software, typesetting systems, and printers.
• Systems Analyst, (DBA Smith Hill Associates); 1981-85. Project management, systems analysis, programming, and production services for projects in electronic publishing, document management, and data conversion; training tutorials on typesetting, programming, and managing large text projects.
• Instructor, Philosophy Department, Rhode Island College; 1982-85. Taught courses in logic, philosophy, epistemology.
• Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School, Brown University; 1980-82. Various projects.
• Teacher, Mathematics, Choice Through Education, Inc., Chelsea Massachusetts; 1974-78. Taught courses in algebra, geometry, and general mathematics. 1974-1976 and summers 1976-1978.

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Publications

Academic Publications (Selected)

1. Coombs, James H., Allen H. Renear, and Steven J. DeRose. (1987). “Markup Systems and The Future of Scholarly Text Processing.” Communications of the ACM, 30:11 (November), 933-947. [ACM].
   • Reprinted in The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities. George Landow and Paul Delany, (Eds.), Cambridge: MIT Press 1993. [CogNet]
2. Renear, Allen H. (1988). Paradoxes of Doxastic Implication: An Essay on the Logic of Belief. [Consequences of epistemically non-contingent assertions for the application of current systems of epistemic modal logic.] Unpublished dissertation. UMI order information. [ACM]
3. DeRose, Steven J., David G. Durand, Elli Mylonas, and Allen H. Renear. (1990). “What is Text, Really?” Journal of Computing in Higher Education 2:1 (Winter), 3-26.
   • Reprinted with invited commentary and authors' replies in the ACM/SIGDOC *Journal of Computer Documentation 21:3 (August) 1997. 1-24. [ACM]
4. Renear, Allen H. (1992). “Representing Texts on the Computer, Lessons from and for Philosophy,” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 74:3, 221-248.
5. Renear, Allen H., Elli Mylonas, and David G. Durand. (1992/96). “Refining Our Notion of What Text Really Is: The Problem of Overlapping Hierarchies.” In Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide (Eds.), Research in Humanities Computing 4: Selected Papers from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Christ Church Oxford, April 1992 (pp. 263-280). Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996. (Presented in 1992; distributed privately 1992-1996; published 1996). [Preprint].
6. Renear, Allen H. and Geoffrey Bilder. (1993). “Two Theses on the New Scholarly Communication.” In George Landow and Paul Delany (Eds.), The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities (pp. 217-236). Cambridge: MIT Press. [CogNet]
7. Renear, Allen H. (1994). “Theory and Practice: The Textbase Methodology of the Brown Women Writers Project.” The Journal of the South Central Division of the Modern Language Association 11:3. [JSTOR].
8. Renear, Allen H. (1995). “Practical Ontology: The Case of Written Communication.” Culture and Value: Philosophy and the Cultural Sciences. Proceedings of the 18th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kjell S. Johannessen and Tore Nordenstam (Eds.), Kirchberg am Wechsel.
9. Renear, Allen H. (1995). “Understanding (Hyper)media” (essay review). Computers and the Humanities 29:5, 389-407. [JSTOR].
10. Simpson, Rosemary, Allen H. Renear, Elli Mylonas, and Andries van Dam. (1996). “50 Years After ‘As We May Think:’ The Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium.” ACM Interactions 3:2, 47-67. Online versions: [ACM].
11. Renear, Allen H. (1996). “Theory and Meta-Theory in the Development of Text Encoding.” An invited “target paper,” with commentary, for the The Monist 80:3 1997 (Interactive Issue).
    • Full paper: online in two parts at the project archives for the The Monist 80:30 1997 (Interactive Issue).
    • An edited version and summary of the discussion was published as “Philosophy and Electronic Publishing: Theory and Metatheory in the Development of Text Encoding,” Michael Biggs and Claus Huitfeldt (Eds.). The Monist 80:3 1997, 348-367. [CAT/INIST] / [Preprint].
12. Renear, Allen H. (1997). “Out of Praxis: Three (Meta)Theories of Textuality.” In Kathryn Sutherland (Ed.). Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory (pp. 107-126). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
13. DeRose, Steven J., David G. Durand, Elli Mylonas, and Allen H. Renear (1997). “Author’s Response to Three Comments on ‘What is Text, Really?’” ACM/SIGDOC *Journal of Computer Documentation. 21:3, 40-44. [ACM].
14. Renear, Allen H. (1997). “Digital Libraries Research Agenda: What's Missing — and How Humanities Textbase Projects can Help,” D-LIB: The NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative Magazine, Anniversary Issue, July/August 1997. Online version: [D-LIB].
15. “Renear, Allen H., Andries van Dam, Steve DeRose, and Elli Mylonas (1999) A Functional Taxonomy of Annotation, (technical report presented to Microsoft Research), Redmond, Washington, January.
16. Renear Allen H. and Elli Mylonas (Eds.) (1999). Computers and the Humanities, 33:1-2. [The Text Encoding Initiative's 10th Anniversary Issue; selected papers from the 1987 conference at Brown University].
17. Renear, Allen H. and Elli Mylonas (1999). “The Text Encoding Initiative at 10: Not Just an Interchange Format Anymore — But a New Research Community.” Computers and the Humanities, 33:1-2, 1-9. Online version: [SpringerLink].
18. Renear, Allen H. (2001). “Literal Transcription — Can the Text Ontologist Help?” In Domenico Fiormonte and John Usher (Eds.), New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications (pp. 23-30). (Proceedings of Computers, Literature, and Philology, 1998, Edinburgh).
19. Sperberg-McQueen, Michael, Claus Huitfeldt, and Allen H. Renear (2000). “Meaning and Interpretation in Markup.” Markup Languages: Theory and Practice, 2:3, 215-234. [Postprint]. .
20. Renear, Allen H. (2001/forthcoming). “Text from a Logical Point of View.” Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Computers, Literature, and Philology. Duisberg, Germany. [Abstract].
21. Renear, Allen H. (2001). “The Descriptive/Procedural Distinction is Flawed.” Markup Languages: Theory and Practice. 2:4, 411-420. [Online].
22. Renear, Allen H. and Gene Golovchinsky (2001) “Content Standards for Electronic Books: The OEBF Publication Structure and the Role of the Public Interest.” Journal of Library Administration. 35:1-2, 99-123. [Haworth].
23. Sperberg-McQueen, C. M., David Dubin, Claus Huitfeldt, and Allen H. Renear (2002). “Drawing inferences on the basis of markup.” In B. T Usdin and S. R. Newcomb (Eds.), Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages 2002. Montreal, Canada, August. Online only: [Proceedings].
24. Renear, Allen H. and Dorothea Salo (2002) “Electronic Books and the OEBF Publication Structure.” In The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing pp. 455-520. New York: Columbia University Press.
25. Renear, Allen H., David Dubin, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, and Claus Huitfeldt (2002). “Towards a Semantics for XML Markup.” 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. Online version: [ACM].
26. Renear, Allen H. (2003). “Humanities Computing 2000.” In Domenico Fiormonte (Ed.). Informatica, umanistica: Dalla ricera all'insegnamento, (27-39). (From invited opening and closing presentations at Computers, Literature, and Philology, 1999 Rome, and 2000 in Alicante).
27. Dubin, David, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Allen Renear, and Claus Huitfeldt (2003). “A Logic Programming Environment for Document Semantics and Inference,” Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing, 18:1, 39-47. [OUP].
28. Renear, Allen H., David Dubin, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, and Claus Huitfeldt (2003). “XML Semantics and Digital Libraries.” In Catherine C. Marshall, Geneva Henry, and Lois Delcambre (Eds.), Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (pp. 303-305), Houston, May. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. [ACM].
29. Renear, Allen H. Christopher Phillippe, Pat Lawton, and David Dubin (2003). “An XML Document Corresponds to Which FRBR Group 1 Entity?”. In: In B. T Usdin and S. R. Newcomb (Eds.), Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages 2003 Montreal, Canada, August. Online only: [Proceedings].
30. Renear, Allen and David Dubin. (2003). “Towards Identity Conditions for Digital Documents.” In DC-2003: Proceedings of International DCMI Conference and Workshop (pp. 181-189). [Proceedings].
31. Renear, Allen H. (2004). “Text Encoding.” In John Unsworth, Susan Schreibman, and Ray Siemans (Eds), Blackwell’s Companion to the Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell. [Online].
32. Renear, Allen H. (forthcoming in 2005). “Text from Several Different Perspectives, the Role of Context in Markup Semantics.” Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Computers, Literature, and Philology. Florence: University of Florence.
33. Renear, Allen H., Xin Xiang, Jin Ha Lee, Yunseon Choi. (2005). “Exhibition: A Problem for Conceptual Modeling in the Humanities.” ACH/ALLC 2005, Victoria. [Proceedings].
34. Downie, J Stephen, Allen H. Renear, Karen Medina, Adam Mathes, Jin Ha Lee. (2005). “Modeling Complex Multimedia Relationships in the Humanities Computing Context: Are Dublin Core and FRBR up to the Task?” Digital Humanities 2005, Victoria.
35. Renear, Allen H., Yunseon Choi. (2005). “Trouble Ahead: Propositional Attitudes and Metadata.” Poster, ASIST 2005, Charlotte NC. [Wiley].
36. Renear, Allen H., Yunseon Choi. (2005). “Some Conceptual Modeling Problems in FRBR.” Poster, ICKM 2005. Charlotte NC.
37. Renear, Allen H., Yunseon Choi, Jin Ha Lee, Sara Schmidt. (2006). “Axiomatizing FRBR: An Exercise in the Formal Ontology of Cultural Objects.” in Digital Humanities 2006 Proceedings. Paris. [Preprint].
38. Renear, Allen H., Yunseon Choi. (2006). “Modeling Our Understanding, Understanding Our Models — The Case of Inheritance in FRBR.” in Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Charlotte). [E-LIS].
39. Lee, Jin Ha, Allen Renear, and Linda Smith. (2006). “Known-Item Searching: Variations on a Concept.” in in Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Charlotte). [E-LIS].
40. Choi, Yunseon, Allen Renear. (2006). “Enhancing Expressiveness of Conceptual Modeling for Bibliographic Relationships: A Reflection on the FRBR Entity-Relationship Model.” Korean Journal of Library and Information Science.
41. Renear, Allen H. (2006) “Is An XML document a FRBR Manifestation or a FRBR Expression? — Both, Because FRBR Entities are not Types, but Roles.” in Extreme Markup Languages 2006 Proceedings, Montreal, Canada. [Proceedings].
42. Floyd, Ingbert and Allen Renear. (2007) “What Exactly is a FRBR Item in the Digital World?” Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Milwaukee).
43. Lee, Jin Ha, Allen Renear. (2007) “How Incorrect Information Delivers Correct Search Results: A Pragmatic Analysis of Queries” Poster. In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Milwaukee).
44. Renear, Allen H., Dave Dubin. (2007) “Three of the Four FRBR Group 1 Entity Types are Roles not Types.” in Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Milwaukee).
45. Renear, Allen H., Karen Wickett, Richard J. Urban, Dave Dubin. (forthcoming in 2008) “The Return of the Trivial: Problems Formalizing Collection/Item Metadata Relationships.” in Proceedings of the 2008 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. (Poster Abstract).
46. Renear, Allen H., Carole L. Palmer, David Dubin, Richard J. Urban. (2008) “Sustaining Collection Value: Managing Collection/Item Metadata Relationships.” in Proceedings of DH2008 (Oulu).
47. Renear, Allen H., Richard J. Urban, Karen M. Wickett, David Dubin. (2008) “Collection/Item Metadata Relationships.” in Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications.
48. Renear, Allen H., David Dubin, Karen M. Wickett. (2008) “When Digital Objects Change — Exactly What Changes?" In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Columbus).

Contributions to Standards

• ANSI X3V1.8, Text: Office & Publishing Systems — Text Processing Languages. Coordinating with ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 WG8.
  • Finalization of SGML. Observer, 1985-1986.
  • Development of DSSSL. Observer, 1985-1986.
• Guidelines for the Encoding and Interchange of Machine Readable Texts. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard, (Eds.), Chicago and Oxford 1990. Contributor to all versions between 1989 and 1996. [TEI Consortium].
  • TEI P1 (1990). Contributor to various sections, member of the Text Representation Committee, member of the Advisory Board.
  • TEI P5 (1995). Contributor to various sections, member of the Advisory Board.
• Open eBook Publication Structure. (OEBPS). Open eBook Forum. The Open eBook Forum is now the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF); The Open eBook Publication Structure will soon be renamed the Open Publication Structure (OPS)
  • OEBPS 1.0 (1999). Contributor.
  • OEBPS 1.0.1 (2001). Chair of the Working Group.
  • OEBPS 1.2 (2002). Chair of the Working Group.
  • Additional work towards OEBPS 2.0. 2003-2004 Chair of the Working Group.
• FRBR/CRM Harmonization, (FRBR-oo). Member of the CIDOC/IFLA working group. Contributor to the specification. 2006-present.

Other Reports and Contributions (Selected)

• Renear, Allen H. (1986). Managing Large Text Projects, Technical Memorandum, Computer Center, Brown University.
• Information 2000 (1992). A strategy statement for developing information technology and library resources at Brown University, 1992. Co-written with Florence Doksanksy, University Librarian.
• Brown University Library and Computing and Information Services (1993). “Information Technology,” in Looking Toward the Year 2000: A Status Report on Long-Term Planning at Brown University. Coauthor.
• Gregorian, Vartan, Brian Hawkins, and Merrily Taylor (1992). “Integrating Information Technologies: A Research University Perspective.” CAUSE/EFFECT, 1992. (lead writer/researcher)
• Renear, Allen H. (1993). Workstation Computing — With Special Reference to "Content-Oriented" Text Processing in Legal Research and Analysis. Expert opinion regarding Ginaitt v. Haronian, et al., C.A. 92-0385P; filed in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island; March 23, 1993.
• Renear, Allen H. (1995). “The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen. Technical Report” in The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen: Project Report 1990-1993 and Critical Evaluation, Bergen 1995. [Online].
• Renear, Allen H. (1996). “Technology and Education: Lots of Choices, No Easy Answers, Plenty of Hard Work, and Some Herring,” Teaching Forum, Center for the Advancement of College Teaching, Brown University, February 1996.
• Brown University Library and Computing and Information Services (1997). “Information Services,” in Brown University Strategic Planning Task Force Report: Information Services. Coauthor.
• “Renear, Allen H., Andries van Dam, Steve DeRose, and Elli Mylonas (1999) A Functional Taxonomy of Annotation, (technical report presented to Microsoft Research), Redmond, Washington, January.

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Presentations

1. “Document Representation: Making Decisions about Intellectual Technology,” College English Association Meetings, Charlotte, South Carolina, April 1987.
2. “Formal Epistemic Theories in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence,” St. Andrews College, Laurinberg, North Carolina, April 1987.
3. “What is Text, Really?” with Elli Mylonas, David Durand, and Steven DeRose, Perseus Project Seminar, Harvard Classics Computing Laboratory, Harvard University, January 1989.
4. “Text Retrieval Needs in Philosophy,” American Philosophical Association Symposium, Annual Joint Meeting of the Association for Humanities Computing and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Toronto, June 1989.
5. “Printing in the University Environment,” BIS-CAP International Conference on Corporate and Electronic Publishing, Boston, June 1989.
6. “Humanities Computing Support” MacAdemia, Brown University, June, 1989.
7. “The Electronic Document.” Banquet talk, 5th National Computers and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie-Mellon University, August 1989.
8. “What is Hypertext?” 6th National Computers and Philosophy Conference, Stanford University, August 1990.
9. “Philosophy and Computing,” 7th National Computers and Philosophy Conference, Connecticut State University, August 1991.
10. “Encoding Philosophical Texts — The Peirce Project,” The Bergen Wittgenstein Archives, Bergen, Norway, November 1991.
11. “The Electronic Peirce Consortium: Building a Model Research Environment for Networked Collaboration,” with Christian Kloesel, Mary Keeler, Joe Ransdell, Michael Neuman, and Geoffrey Bilder. American Society for Information Science, Washington DC, November 1991.
12. “The Electronic Peirce Consortium: Building a Model Research Environment for Networked Collaboration” with Christian Kloesel, Mary Keeler, Joe Ransdell, Michael Neuman, and Geoffrey Bilder. ALLC/ACH '92, Oxford University, April 1992.
13. “Casting the Net: Towards a Model for Collaboration and Communication on the Electronic Network,” co-presenter and moderator. An invitational symposium sponsored by the Electronic Peirce Consortium and funded by the National Science Foundation; Washington DC, June 1992.
14. “The Electronic Peirce Consortium: Building a Model Research Environment for Networked Collaboration” with Christian Kloesel, Mary Keeler, Joe Ransdell, Michael Neuman, and Geoffrey Bilder. European Networking Conference, Pisa, Italy, November 1992.
15. “SGML and the Economics of Document Management,” Gartner Group Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 1992.
16. “Overlapping Hierarchies: Refining Our Notion of What Text Really Is,” with Elli Mylonas and David Durand, Joint Conference of the Association for Humanities Computing and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Oxford University, April 1992.
17. “How SGML is Making the Vision a Reality” Plenary talk, North American Serials Interest Group, Providence, Rhode Island, June 1993.
18. “SGML, TEI, and Knowledge Work — How are We Doing?,” TEI Symposium of the Joint Conference of the Association for Humanities Computing and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Georgetown, Washington DC, June 1993.
19. “SGML and Legal Research,” SGML93, Boston, December, 1993.
20. “What do Humanists Want? — Theorizing the Intellectual Services Trades,” Banquet talk, CETH seminar on MARC records and the TEI-Header, Princeton University, May 1994.
21. “How SGML Makes Disagreement Possible,” invited response to panel on “What Does the TEI Mean to Textual Editors?” at the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, April 1995.
22. “Practical Ontology: The Case of Written Communication,” Culture and Value: Philosophy and the Cultural Sciences, The 18th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 1995.
23. “What is Humanities Computing?” Beyond Enthusiasm, Tel Aviv University, June 1995.
24. “Teaching, Learning, and the World Wide Web,” introduction and moderation of a panel discussion on the use of the WWW in university teaching. Center for the Advancement of College Teaching; April 1996.
25. “Recent Theorizing about Text: A Review,” Bergen Text Encoding Seminar, Bergen, Norway; April 1996.
26. “The Encoded Text: Disciplines, Theories, Ontologies,” The Princeton Humanities Council, Princeton University; April 1996.
27. “Philosophical Issues in the Development of a Research Agenda for Hypertext.” Electronic Networking and the Philosophy of Culture, Edlach, Austria; May 1996.
28. “The Theory of the Historical Document,” a commentary on the Model Editions Project's SGML/TEI Document Type Definition, Association for Documentary Editing, New Orleans, September 1996.
29. “Five Fundamental Lessons about Teaching and Technology,” at Networked Learning, Boston College, October, 1996.
30. “Educational Technology: Lessons from Higher Education,” at US Department of Education Northeast Regional Technology Consortium forum on Technology and Teacher Education, CUNY, October, 1996.
31. “Grammars for Culture: a Comparison of three SGML Document Type Definitions for Cultural Objects,” at the Coalition for Networked Information, San Francisco, December, 1996.
32. “Academic Computing, What is it?” Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundable for European university presidents and rectors, American Council on Higher Education, Brown University, June 1997.
33. “Doxastic Implication,” The First World Congress on Paraconsistent Logic, Ghent, Belgium, July, 1997.
34. “New Books, New Libraries, Old Truths,” A Celebration of the 3,000,000 Book, Brown University Library, October, 1997.
35. “Out of Praxis: Text Ontology from Below,” The Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1997.
36. “Text Ontology from Below: How Contemporary Computing Practices are Changing our Notion of Textuality,” Computing in the Humanities Users Group, Brown University, March 1998.
37. “Humanities Computing — Institutional Strategies,” English Faculty, Oxford University, April 1998.
38. “Humanities Computing — Public Policy and Funding in the US,” Panelist, Computing in the Academy, Center for Humanities Computing, Kings College, London University, May 1998.
39. “The Semantics and Pragmatics of Markup Systems,” Norwegian Center for Humanities Computing, University of Bergen, May 1998.
40. “What is Text? Theory and MetaTheory,” Computer Science Department, University College Cork, June 1998.
41. “Text Ontology from Below: How Contemporary Computing Practices are Changing our Notion of Textuality,” University College Cork, Dean's Lecture, May 1998.
42. “Text Ontology from Below: How Contemporary Computing Practices are Changing our Notion of Textuality.” Center for English Studies, Kings College London, June 1998.
43. “Theory and MetaTheory in Text Encoding,” Lecture 1 in Theories of Text (invited lecture series) Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University, July 1998. [Announcement].
44. “Markup Systems: Semantics and Pragmatics,” Lecture 2 in Theories of Text (invited lecture series) Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University, July 1998. [Announcement].
45. “Text Ontology: Methodology, Results,” Lecture 3 in Theories of Text (invited lecture series) Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University, July 1998. [Announcement].
46. “Text Ontology and Edition Philology: How to Theorize Noncritical Editing to Support the Development of Digital Libraries,” Computers, Literature, and Philology, University of Edinburgh, September 1998.
47. “Defending Platonic Realism in Text Ontology.” A workshop focused on "Theory and Metatheory” (Renear 1997); respondents: Dino Buzzetti (Bologna) and Claus Huitfeldt (Bergen); ACOHUM: The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age, University of Bergen, September 1998.
48. “Text Ontology from Below: How Contemporary Computing Practices are Changing our Notion of Textuality.” Humanities Center, University of Alberta, November 1998.
49. “A Functional Taxonomy of Annotation,” with Andries van Dam, Steve DeRose, and Elli Mylonas, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, January 1999.
50. “Information and the Humanities in the Next Millenium,” Interview with Fox News, May 1999. Online.
51. “Open eBook 1.0: The Basic Strategy,” with members of the OEB Authoring Group, Open eBook Initiative meeting, Chicago, March 1999, May 1999.
52. “What is text? A debate on the philosophical and epistemological nature of text in the light of humanities computing research,” Panel with Jerome McGann; Susan Hockey, Chair. ACH/ALLC '99, Charlottesville Virginia, June 1999. [Abstract]
53. “Humanities Computing and New Media Studies — Synergy or Disjunction?” moderator's opening statement at the ACH President's Panel, ACH/ALLC '99, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 1999. [Abstract]
54. “The Open Electronic Book Publication Structure 1.0 — An Overview,” Electronic Book '99, National Institute for Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce, September 1999.
55. “The Informatic Turn: A New Research Agenda for the Human Sciences,” Computers, Philology, and Literature, 2nd Conference, Rome, November 1999.
56. “Text Ontology from Below: How Contemporary Computing Practices are Changing our Notion of Textuality,” American Academy of Religion, Boston, November 1999.
57. “Text Ontology from Below: How Contemporary Computing Practices are Changing our Notion of Textuality,” Markup Technologies '99, Philadelphia, December 1999.
58. “Text Ontology from Below: How Contemporary Computing Practices are Changing our Notion of Textuality.” Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, December 1999.
59. “The Future of Electronic Publishing,” TSI Graphics, Ramsey, New Jersey, February 2000.
60. “Standards Development and the Public Interest,” Columbia Teacher's College, New York, April 2000.
61. “E-Books and Beyond: Information Content Standards for Encoding and Exchange,” GSLIS-2000: Electronic Commerce in the Information Industries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2000.
62. “eBooks, the OEB, and Scholarly Publishing,” Society for Scholarly Publishing, Baltimore, June 2000.
63. “OEB: Why It Is So Important,” LITA panel on electronic books, American Library Association, Chicago, June 2000.
64. “Text Ontology from Below: How Contemporary Computing Practices are Changing our Notion of Textuality,” Core Curriculum, National University of Singapore, July 2000.
65. “The Open Electronic Book Publication Structure 1.0 — An Overview.” CSW Informatics, Oxford UK, July 2000.
66. “The Open Electronic Book Publication Structure 1.0 — An Overview.” Extreme Markup Languages, Montreal, August 2000.
67. “Meaning and Interpretation of Markup,” C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Claus Huitfeldt, and Allen Renear. Sperberg-McQueen presenting. ACH/ALLC 2000, Glasgow, August, 2000. [Abstract]
68. “Meaning and Interpretation of Markup,” C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Claus Huitfeldt, and Allen Renear. Sperberg-McQueen presenting. (Plenary). Extreme Markup Languages 2000, Montreal Canada, August, 2000. [Slides]
69. “The Descriptive/Procedural Distinction is Flawed,” (Plenary). Extreme Markup Languages 2000, Montreal Canada, August, 2000.
70. “The Brown University Women Writers Project and the Development of TEI Text Encoding,” Panel on the Women Writers Project, The Modern Language Association, Washington DC, December, 2000. [Slides.]
71. “The OeBF Publication Structure,” Salon de Livre/eBook, Paris, March 2001.
72. “Libraries and Electronic Books,” Alice Brendel Memorial Lecture, Brown University, April 2001.
73. “Data Standards for Electronic Books,” Society for Scholarly Publishing Seminar, New York City, April 2001.
74. “Text Encoding and Humanities Computing: Speech Acts and Markup,” Presentations in honor of John Burroughs. University of Newcastle (Australia), July 2001.
75. “Text Encoding and Humanities Computing: Text Ontology,” University of Sydney, July 2001.
76. “Electronic Books 2001: what's going on, why we need your help, and the kind of help we need.” Annual banquet lecture, Alpha Chapter, Beta Phi Mu (International Library and Information Studies Honor Society). Champaign-Urbana, September 2001.
77. “Text Encoding from a Logical Point of View,” CLIP 2001: Computers, Literature, Philology, Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany. December 2001. [Abstract ]
78. “Thinking Hard, Bravely, and Usefully about Teaching and Technology,” Opening keynote, 5th Annual Teaching and Technology Conference, Baruch College, New York City, March 2002.
79. “Skeletons in the Closet: Saying What Markup Means,” with Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Claus Huitfeldt, and Dave Dubin, Sperberg-McQueen presenting. ALLC/ACH 2002, Tuebingen, Germany July 2002.
80. “A Logic Programming Environment for Document Semantics and Inference,” Dave Dubin, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Allen Renear, Claus Huitfeldt. Dubin presenting. ALLC/ACH 2002, Tuebingen, Germany July 2002.
81. “Drawing Inferences on the Basis of Markup,” with Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Claus Huitfeldt, and Dave Dubin. Extreme Markup Languages 2003, Montreal August 2002.
82. “Towards a Semantics for XML Markup.” ACM Symposium on Document Engineering McLean, VA, Allen Renear, David Dubin, C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen, and Claus Huitfeldt; Renear and Dubin presenting. November 2002.
83. “A New Technique for Document Authentication Across Meaning-Preserving Transformations. Advanced Countermeasures for Insider Threats, a workshop sponsored by The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and The Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA), Arlington VA, February 2003.
84. “Document Authentication Across (i) Meaning-Preserving Transformations and (ii) Changes in Context. NCSA Seminar Series, sponsored by the National Center for Supercomputer Applications, April 2001, Champaign Illinois; broadcast on the Alliance Access Grid. [Abstract]
85. “Text Markup — Data Structure vs. Data Model,” with David Dubin, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, and Claus Huitfeldt. Joint International Conference of the Association for Humanities Computing and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, July, Athens Georgia 2003.
86. “XML Semantics and Digital Libraries,” with David Dubin, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, and Claus Huitfeldt. IEEE-CS/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, July, Houston, Texas 2003.
87. “An XML Document Corresponds to Which FRBR Group 1 Entity?” with Christopher Phillippe, Pat Lawton, and David Dubin. Extreme Markup Languages 2003, August, Montreal.
88. “First Thoughts on Modal Logic for Document Processing,” Extreme Markup Languages 2003, August, Montreal.
89. “Towards Identity Conditions for Digital Documents,” with David Dubin, Dublin Core 2003, October, Seattle.
90. “Text from Several Perspectives,” CLiP 2003: Computers, Literature, and Philology, November, Florence.
91. Response to Buzzetti: “The State of Text Encoding” Online Resources for the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. International Seminar, May, 2004, Brown University (invited).
92. “Theoretical Problems in Text Encoding” with Kevin Hawkins. Poster, ACH/ALLC 2004 (June), Gotenborg, Sweden.
93. “Theory Restored: A Response to Caton” ACH/ALLC 2004 (June), Gotenborg, Sweden.
94. “Grand Challenges in Humanities Computing: The Document Modeling Problem as an Example.” Glasscock Center Humanities Informatics Lecture, Texas A&M, March 2005 (invited).
95. “Exhibition: A Problem for Conceptual Modeling in the Humanities”. Allen H. Renear, Xin Xiang, Jin Ha Lee, Yunseon Choi. ACH/ALLC, Victoria, June 2005.
96. “Trouble Ahead: Propositional Attitudes and Metadata”. Allen H. Renear and Yunseon Choi. Poster, Poster. ASIST 2005, Charlotte, NC. October 2005.
97. “Modeling Problems in FRBR.” Renear, Allen H. and Yunseon Choi. Poster. International Conference for Knowledge Management. Charlotte, NC. October 2005.
98. “Axiomatizing FRBR: An Exercise in the Formal Ontology of Cultural Objects.” Allen H. Renear, Yunseon Choi, Jin Ha Lee, Sara Schmidt. DH, July 2006, Paris.
99. “Is An XML document a FRBR Manifestation or a FRBR Expression? — Both, Because FRBR Entities are not Types, but Roles.” Allen H. Renear. Extreme Markup Languages, August 2006, Montreal, Canada. Online.
100. “Abstraction Problems in FRBR.” Allen H. Renear and Yunseon Choi. Panel presentation in ASIST SIG/CR panel Theoretical Topics in FRBR. ASIST, November 2006, Austin, Texas.
101. “Ontology and Information Science.” Allen H. Renear. Panel presentation in ASIST SIG/HFIS panel Philosophy and Information Science, Jonathan Furner, Chair. ASIST, November 2006, Austin, Texas.
102. “Modeling Our Understanding, Understanding Our Models — The Case of Inheritance in FRBR.” Allen H. Renear and Yunseon Choi. ASIST, November 2006, Austin, Texas.
103. “Ontologies and STM Publishing.” Allen H. Renear. STM Innovations 2006, December 1, London UK (invited).
104. “The Ontological Imperative — Can't we agree on anything?”. Allen H. Renear. Service Oriented Computing and the Humanities, December 17, 2006, London UK (opening keynote).
105. “Standard Domain Ontologies: The Rate Limiting Step for the "Next Big Change" in Scientific Communication” Allen H. Renear. American Chemical Society, Division of Information, March 27, 2007, London UK (invited).
106. “How we will/won't read in 2017”. Invited panelist in the RUSA President's Program (Reference and User Services Association): “Time Odyssey: Visions of Reference and User Services” ALA, June, 2007.
107. “The Ontological Status of the Digital Text: A Pluralist Approach"” The 30th Internatinal Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg Austria, August 2007.
108. “What Exactly is an Item in the Digital World?” Ingbert Floyd and Allen Renear, Poster, ASIST, October 2007, Milwaukee.
109. “How Incorrect Information Delivers Correct Search Results: A Pragmatic Analysis of Queries.” Jin Ha Lee and Allen Renear, Poster. ASIST, October 2007, Milwaukee.
110. “Three of the Four FRBR Group 1 Entity Types are Roles not Types.” Allen H. Renear, David Dubin. ASIST, October 2007, Milwaukee.
111. “Sustaining Collection Value: Managing Collection/Item Metadata Relationships.” Allen H. Renear, Carole L. Palmer, David Dubin, Richard J. Urban. DH2008, Oulu Finland, June 2008.
112. “Collection/Item Metadata Relationships.” Allen H. Renear, Richard J. Urban, Karen M. Wickett, David Dubin, Sarah L. Shreeves. The 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Berlin, September 2008.
113. “Towards a General Ontology of Cultural Objects.” Allen H. Renear. The 2009 John Schneider Distinguished Lecture, University of Texas at Austin, January 2009.

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Other Professional Activities

Current

• Member of the IFLA/CIDOC FRBR Harmonization Group (FRBR-oo).
• Member of the Advisory Board, Extreme Markup Languages (EML).
• Member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computing and the Humanities (ACH).
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of the Brown University Women Writers Project (1330-1830) (WWP).
• Member of the I-Schools 2008 conference committee. (I-Schools).

Past

• Co-Chair, ICS-FORTH Workshop on limits of global models for integration and use of historical and scientific information, Heraklion, Crete, October 2006.
• Program Committee, IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2004 conference.
• Program Committee, International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) 2004 conference.
• Member, Executive Committee, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin. (2001-2003).
• Program Committee, IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2003 conference.
• Co-Director, Information Systems Research Laboratory, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (2001).
• Member, Board of Directors, Open Electronic Book Forum. (2001)
• President, The Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1998-2001.
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Maryland Institute for Technology and the Humanities (MITH).
• Doctoral Internship supervisor: Carole DeBoer-Langworthy, in American History, Union Institute; subject area: managing text encoding projects. (completed 1996)
• Member, Tenure Committee for Carole Palmer, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin. (2001).
• Member of the Editorial Board, Markup Systems and Languages.
• Member of the Advisory Panel, Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles, University of Alberta.
• Program Committee, IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2001)
• Member of the Text Encoding Initiative Transition Team, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. (1999-2001)
• Co-founder and co-coordinator of CHUG, the Brown University Computing in the Humanities Users' Group, 1986-2001.
• Member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computing in the Humanities (1994-1998)
• Chair of the Sub-Committee on Collaboration Tools, Technology Committee, US Department of Education Regional Laboratories. (1996-1997)
• Consultant, Modern Language Association Committee on the Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare, 1997.
• Educational Technology Advisor, Brown University Center for the Advancement of College Teaching, 1993-1996
• Panelist, Research Division, National Endowment for the Humanities, Spring, 1996.
• Delegate to the Advisory Board of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), representing the American Philosophical Association, 1989-1995.
• Member of the Text Encoding Initiative's Committee on Text Representation; research on encoding of major structural divisions and attributions of likelihood. 1988-1995
• Reviewer, joint meeting of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing/Association for Computing in the Humanities, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995.
• Member of the evaluation committee for the 5 year evaluation of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Norway, 1993.
• Co-organizer and co-moderator for “Casting the Net: Towards a Model for Collaboration and Communication on the Electronic Network,” Washington DC in June 1992. An invitational symposium funded by the National Science Foundation.
• Guest Scholar, The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, September 21-26, 1992. Research on theoretical problems of text encoding.
• Co-Editor of Humanist, an electronic conference for humanities computing. 1990-1992.
• Participant, ANSI Technical Committee X3V1 Languages for the Description and Processing of Text; (Task Group 8). Current X3V1 standards activities allied SGML and hypertext standards such as HyTime (Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language) and Document Style and Semantics Specification Language (DSSSL), 1985-88.
• Member of the Brown University Graduate School Council (the faculty policy and governance body for the Graduate School), 1980-1982.
• Secretary of the Rhode Island Philosophical Society, 1979-1981.

Miscellaneous Reports and Documents (Selected)

• Renear, Allen H. (1986). Managing Large Text Projects, Technical Memorandum, Computer Center, Brown University.
• Information 2000 (1992). A strategy statement for developing information technology and library resources at Brown University, 1992. Co-written with Florence Doksanksy, University Librarian.
• Brown University Library and Computing and Information Services (1993). “Information Technology,” in Looking Toward the Year 2000: A Status Report on Long-Term Planning at Brown University. Coauthor.
• Gregorian, Vartan, Brian Hawkins, and Merrily Taylor (1992). “Integrating Information Technologies: A Research University Perspective.” CAUSE/EFFECT, 1992. (lead writer/researcher)
• Renear, Allen H. (1993). Workstation Computing — With Special Reference to "Content-Oriented" Text Processing in Legal Research and Analysis. Expert opinion regarding Ginaitt v. Haronian, et al., C.A. 92-0385P; filed in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island; March 23, 1993.
• Renear, Allen H. (1995). “The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen. Technical Report” in The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen: Project Report 1990-1993 and Critical Evaluation, Bergen 1995. [Online].
• Renear, Allen H. (1996). “Technology and Education: Lots of Choices, No Easy Answers, Plenty of Hard Work, and Some Herring,” Teaching Forum, Center for the Advancement of College Teaching, Brown University, February 1996.
• Brown University Library and Computing and Information Services (1997). “Information Services,” in Brown University Strategic Planning Task Force Report: Information Services. Coauthor.

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Awards and Honors

Centennial Scholar. 2003. Graduate School of Libary and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Grants

Author, co-author, or contributor to awarded grant proposals to NEH, NSF, Mellon, the US Department of Education, and other foundations and agencies.

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