Elizabeth Yakel | |
---|---|
Born | 1960 U.S.A. |
Occupation | Higher education |
Title | Professor; Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs |
Academic background | |
Education | A.B., Brown University (1980); A.M.L.S., University of Michigan (1982); Ph.D., University of Michigan (1997) |
Thesis | Recordkeeping in Radiology: The Relationships Between Activities and Records in Radiological Processes (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Margaret Hedstrom, Francis X. Blouin |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Library and information science |
Sub-discipline | Archives;digital preservation |
Institutions | University of Michigan;University of Pittsburgh |
Main interests | Data reuse;teaching with primary sources;archival description;development of standardized metrics to enhance repository processes and the user experience |
Elizabeth Yakel is an archivist,researcher,and educator in information science. Yakel is known for work advancing archival practice,the use of primary sources in archives education,studies of data reuse practices,and digital curation. Yakel is the senior associate dean for academic affairs and a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information,where she has been on the faculty since 2000. She is the former coordinator of the Preservation of Information specialization in the Master of Science in Information program and teaches in the Archives and Record Management area. She specializes in digital archives and digital preservation and has developed five such graduate level courses at UM,including "Economics of Sustainable Digital Information" and "Practical Engagement Workshop in Digital Preservation." [1]
She holds an A.B. from Brown University (1980),an A.M.L.S. from the University of Michigan (1982),and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1997). Her dissertation, Recordkeeping in Radiology:The Relationships Between Activities and Records in Radiological Processes ,won the 1997 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association of Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE). After graduation,she became an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences from 1997 to 2000 before returning to her alma mater. [1]
Yakel has published extensively,especially in academic journals. [21] Her oeuvre includes more than 130 writings that have been cited over 2,600 times. [22] Articles cited more than 90 times include:
One of her earliest publications of note is Starting an Archives ,a 1994 manual published by SAA and Scarecrow Press that provides the rationale for the establishment of an archival program and discusses the work involved in doing so.
In 2016,she and Doris Malkmus co-authored a module titled "Contextualizing Archival Literacy" for Teaching with Primary Sources, a volume of SAA's Trends in Archives Practice series,which aims to "fill significant gaps in archival literature." [23] This module has been praised for doing "an excellent job of describing the current state of teaching with primary sources." [24]
An archivist is an information professional who assesses,collects,organizes,preserves,maintains control over,and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records maintained by an archivist can consist of a variety of forms,including letters,diaries,logs,other personal documents,government documents,sound and/or picture recordings,digital files,or other physical objects.
The Society of American Archivists is the oldest and largest archivist association in North America,serving the educational and informational needs of more than 5,000 individual archivist and institutional members. Established in 1936,the organization serves upwards of 6,200 individual and member institutions.
The University of MichiganSchool of Information (UMSI) or iSchool in Ann Arbor is a graduate school offering baccalaureate,magisterial,and doctoral degrees in informatics and information science.
Margaret L. Hedstrom,Ph.D.,is the Robert M. Warner Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information. She has contributed to the field of digital preservation,archives,and electronic records management and holds a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin.
Paul Conway is associate professor in the University of Michigan School of Information and has worked with Yale University and Duke University Universities after starting his career at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. His research and educational work focuses primarily on digital preservation and electronic media. He has published extensively throughout his career on library preservation,conservation issues,and education of library and archives personnel.
Robert Sidney Martin,Ph.D. is an American librarian,archivist,administrator,and educator. He is Professor Emeritus,School of Library and Information Studies,Texas Woman’s University,where he was the Lillian M. Bradshaw Endowed Chair until his retirement in 2008.
Digital curation is the selection,preservation,maintenance,collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation establishes,maintains and adds value to repositories of digital data for present and future use. This is often accomplished by archivists,librarians,scientists,historians,and scholars. Enterprises are starting to use digital curation to improve the quality of information and data within their operational and strategic processes. Successful digital curation will mitigate digital obsolescence,keeping the information accessible to users indefinitely. Digital curation includes digital asset management,data curation,digital preservation,and electronic records management.
Data curation is the organization and integration of data collected from various sources. It involves annotation,publication and presentation of the data such that the value of the data is maintained over time,and the data remains available for reuse and preservation. Data curation includes "all the processes needed for principled and controlled data creation,maintenance,and management,together with the capacity to add value to data". In science,data curation may indicate the process of extraction of important information from scientific texts,such as research articles by experts,to be converted into an electronic format,such as an entry of a biological database.
GLAM is an acronym for galleries,libraries,archives,and museums,and refers to cultural institutions with a mission to provide access to knowledge. GLAMs collect and maintain cultural heritage materials in the public interest. As collecting institutions,GLAMs preserve and make accessible primary sources valuable for researchers. The term,in particular in related forms such as LAM is increasingly used for the comparative studies of these institutions,often motivated by their claimed convergence.
The UNC School of Information and Library Science(SILS) is a professional school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offering a bachelor's degree in information science,master's degrees in library science and information science,a professional science master's degree in digital curation,and a doctoral degree in information and library science as well as an undergraduate minor,graduate certificate programs,and a post-master's certificate.
Nancy McGovern is an expert on digital preservation and data curation. She is a leader in the archives profession with a national and international reputation. She was elected to be the 72nd President of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and served in that capacity from 2016 to 2017.
Clifford Lampe is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He is best known for his research in the fields of human-computer interaction,social computing,and computer supported cooperative work. Since 2018 he has been Executive Vice President for ACM SIGCHI. Lampe made foundational contributions in the areas of social networking sites,social capital,and online communities,work that has been cited over 34,000 times according to Google Scholar.
Trevor J. Owens is an American librarian and archivist. He currently serves as the first Head of Digital Content Management at the Library of Congress. He previously served as the Senior Program Officer responsible for the development of the National Digital Platform portfolio at the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Before that,he worked as a Digital Archivist with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. In 2014 the Society of American Archivists granted him the Archival Innovator Award,presented annually to recognize the archivist,repository,or organization that best exemplifies the “ability to think outside the professional norm.”
The Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music holds over 100,000 individual audio and video recordings across over 3500 collections of field,broadcast,and commercial recordings. Its holdings are primarily focused on audiovisual recordings relating to research in the academic disciplines of ethnomusicology,folklore,anthropology,linguistics,and various area studies.
Helen Ruth Tibbo is an American archivist,professor and author writing about digital preservation in the archival profession. At the University of North Carolina,she created and directed the first American master's degree on digital curation. She is a past President of the Society of American Archivists
Anne Jervois Gilliland is an archivist,scholar,and professor in the field of archival studies. She is Associate Dean for Information Studies at the University of California,Los Angeles Graduate School of Education &Information Studies.
Michèle V. Cloonan is an American library and information science educator. She is a professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University,in Boston,Massachusetts,and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons. She is an advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage.
Michelle Caswell is an American archivist and academic known for her work regarding community archives and approaches to archival practice rooted in anti-racism and anti-oppression. She is an associate professor of archival studies in the Department of Information Studies at University of California,Los Angeles and is the director of the school's Community Archives Lab.
Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck is an American computer scientist at the University of Michigan,where she serves as Director of the Living Online Lab. Her research considers human–computer interactions,social media and social computing. She was awarded the University of Michigan School of Information Diversity,Equity and Inclusion Award in 2017 for her work on LGBTQ+ families and online communities.
Ricardo L. Punzalan,Ph.D.,is an Associate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information. He has shaped the fields of archival science,virtual reunification,repatriation,reparative description,and has studied the nature of collections in both museums and archives. He holds undergraduate and Masters degrees from the University of the Philippines and a doctorate in information science from the University of Michigan.