{"id":7950,"date":"2019-10-25T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sis.utk.edu\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:50:43","slug":"sis-represents-at-asist-best-paper-awarded-to-faculty-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/sis\/2019\/10\/25\/sis-represents-at-asist-best-paper-awarded-to-faculty-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS Represents at ASIS&T, Best Paper Awarded to Faculty & Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left: Chancellor’s Professor Carol Tenopir, Associate Professor Wade Bishop, and Professor Dania Bilal at the ASIS&T annual meeting in Australia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Faculty, alumni, and students from the School of Information Sciences participated at the 2019 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting in Melbourne, Australia this past week, and several received honors for their work.
\nMost notably, SIS Associate Professor Wade Bishop<\/strong>, SIS Assistant Professor Carolyn Hank<\/strong>, and SIS alumni Joel Webster<\/strong> (\u201818) and Rebecca Howard<\/strong> (\u201819) received the ASIS&T Best Paper Award for their paper, \u201cScientists’ data discovery and reuse behavior: (Meta)data fitness for use and the FAIR Data Principles.\u201d
\nBishop said he and Hank knew they were doing important work when they received best paper on this study and its method at the 2018 International Digital Curation Conference in Barcelona. The topic of their most recent paper is how to use human behavior to teach machines (AI) to think like users when determining fitness for use of data.
\n\u201cThis would\u2019ve been success enough to know our contribution will help improve data findability and use for humans and machines in the real-world, but it was an honor to be recognized at ASIS&T by our home domain of information science(s),\u201d Bishop said.
\nThe co-authors have been able to disseminate portions of the project to a variety of communities over the past 18 months, including the Research Data Alliance 2018, American Geophysical Union 2018, IDCC 2019, the US Geological Survey Community for Data Integration 2019, and other venues.
\n\u201cQualitative research takes a long time to do correctly, with transcribing, coding, and re-coding\u2026The project was well received and commended by scholars and researchers across the data fields,\u201d Bishop said.
\nOther SIS members participated at the event, some earning honors for their research or service. They are:<\/p>\n