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]
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
- “Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing.” Allen H. Renear, Carole L. Palmer. Science. 325:5942 p. 828 (2009). [AAAS]
- “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]
- “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]
- “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].
- “Towards Identity Conditions for Digital Documents.” Allen H. Renear and David Dubin. In DC-2003: Proceedings of International DCMI Conference and Workshop (2003).
[Proceedings].
- “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].
- “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).
- “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]
- “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].