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, DCMI metadata, the Gene Ontology, and HL7 standards, as well as XML document schemas, particularly the National Library of Medicine JAI DTD and the TEI. Application areas include scholarly publishing and data curation. Currently topics of active interest are:

• scientific ontologies in STM publishing workflows
• ontology-based tools for reading, analysis, navigation
• cross-cutting concepts in data curation
• 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].