Rich Gazan Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Information & Computer Sciences Library & Information Science Program Chair, Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Communication & Information Sciences

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Refereed journal articles and conference papers

• Rich Gazan (2013). Identifying Crossover Documents in an Interdisciplinary Research Environment.  iConference 2013, 12-15 February, Ft. Worth, TX.
  
• Mike Gowanlock & Rich Gazan (2013). Assessing Researcher Interdisciplinarity: A Case Study of the University of Hawaii NASA Astrobiology Institute. Scientometrics 94(1), 133-161.
• Rich Gazan (2012). Rebroadcasting Astrobiology Information Through Social Media.  Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon 2012).
• Mike Gowanlock & Rich Gazan (2012). Assessing Researcher Interdisciplinarity: A Case Study of the University of Hawaii NASA Astrobiology Institute.  Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon 2012).
• Rich Gazan (2011).  Social Q&A.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 62(12), 2301-2312. (preprint)
  
• Rich Gazan (2011). Redesign as an Act of Violence: Disrupted Interaction Patterns and the Fragmenting of a Social Q&A Community.  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), 9-13 May 2011, Vancouver, BC, pp. 2847-2856. New York: ACM. (preprint)
  
• Rich Gazan (2010).  Microcollaborations in a Social Q&A Community.  Information Processing & Management 46(6), 693-702. (preprint)
  
• Rich Gazan and Lisa Miller (2010).  The Practical Mechanics of Interdisciplinary Science.  Astrobiology Science Conference, 26-29 April 2010, League City, TX. (full paper)
  
• Lisa Miller and Rich Gazan (2010). Adaptation of an Open Source Semantic and Conceptual Retrieval Framework to the Astrobiological Domain.  Astrobiology Science Conference, 26-29 April 2010, League City, TX. (full paper)
• Rich Gazan (2009).  When Online Communities Become Self-Aware.  Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42), 5-9 January 2009, Waikoloa, HI.
• Rich Gazan (2008).  Social Annotations in Digital Library Collections.  D-Lib 14(11/12). (full paper)
  
• Rich Gazan (2007).  Seekers, Sloths and Social Reference: Homework Questions Submitted to a Question Answering Community.  New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 13(2), 239-248.
• Rich Gazan (2006).  Specialists and Synthesists in a Question Answering Community.  American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, 3-9 November 2006, Austin, TX.
• Rich Gazan (2005).  Digital Library Evaluation: A Longer View.  D-Lib 11(7) ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Workshop Report: Studying Digital Library Users in the Wild: Theories, Methods, and Analytical Approaches. (full paper)
• Rich Gazan (2005).  Imposing Structures: Narrative Analysis and the Design of Information Systems.  Library & Information Science Research 27(3), 346-362.
• Rich Gazan (2003).  Metadata as a Realm of Translation: Merging Knowledge Domains in the Design of an Environmental Information System.  Knowledge Organization 30 (3/4), 182-190.
• Rich Gazan, Gregory H. Leazer, Christine L. Borgman, Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, Laura Smart, Dan Ancona, Rachel Michael Nilsson (2003).  Use Scenarios in the Development of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype. American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, 19-22 October 2003, Long Beach, CA.
• Christine L. Borgman, Gregory H. Leazer, Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland & Rich Gazan (2001).  Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Geographic Digital Library for University Students: A Case Study of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT). Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 4-8 September 2001, Darmstadt, Germany.
• Rich Gazan (2000).  The Wonder Years of XML.  Library Computing 19(1/2), 13-17.
• Christine L. Borgman, Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, Gregory H. Leazer, Richard Mayer, David Gwynn, Rich Gazan & Patricia Mautone (2000).  Evaluating Digital Libraries for Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Education: A Case Study of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT). Library Trends 49(2), 228-250.

Refereed conference presentations

• Rich Gazan (2011). Astrobiology Through the Lens of Social Q&A.  American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST '11), 9-13 October 2011, New Orleans, LA.
• Rich Gazan (2009). When Wrong is Right: Intentionally Bad Answers in a Social Q&A Community.  American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, 6-11 November 2009, Vancouver, BC.
• Rich Gazan (2009). Dimensions of Trust in Social Reference.  American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, 6-11 November 2009, Vancouver, BC.
  
• Rich Gazan (2009).  When Online Communities Become Self-Aware.  Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42), 5-9 January 2009, Waikoloa, HI.
• Rich Gazan (2007).  Social Computing as Co-created Experience.  American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, 21-24 October 2007, Milwaukee, WI. 
• Rich Gazan (2007).  Technologies of Forgetting and
  Exclusion: Case Studies in the Social Benefits of Forgetting.  Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, 11-13 October 2007, Montreal, QC.
• Rich Gazan (2006).  Specialists and Synthesists in a Question Answering Community.  American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, 3-9 November 2006, Austin, TX.
• Rich Gazan (2006).  Beyond Trust: Becoming a Critical Information Consumer.  School of Communication Summit, 1-3 March 2006, Denver, CO.
• Rich Gazan (2004).  Creating Hybrid Knowledge: A Role for the Professional Integrationist.  Association for Library & Information Science Education Annual Conference, 6-9 January 2004, San Diego, CA.
• Rich Gazan, Gregory H. Leazer, Christine L. Borgman, Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, Laura Smart, Dan Ancona, Rachel Michael Nilsson (2003).  Use Scenarios in the Development of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype. American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, 19-22 October 2003, Long Beach, CA.
• Rich Gazan (2002).  Creating Connections in Multidisciplinary Problem-Focused Research. Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, 7-10 November 2002, Milwaukee, WI.
• Christine L. Borgman, Gregory H. Leazer, Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland & Rich Gazan (2001).  Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Geographic Digital Library for University Students: A Case Study of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT). Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 4-8 September 2001, Darmstadt, Germany.

Refereed book chapters

• Rich Gazan (2007).  Understanding the Rogue User. In: Diane Nahl and Dania Bilal, eds.  Information & Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory. Medford, New Jersey: Information Today, 177-185.
• Rich Gazan (2007).  Library Management Education and Reality: A Clearer Connection.  In Edward D. Garten, Delmus E. Williams and James M. Nyce, eds. Advances in Library Administration & Organization, vol. 24. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT, 237-254.

Refereed conference poster

• Rich Gazan (2010). AIRFrame: Integrating Diverse Digital Collections in Astrobiology.  ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 21-25 June 2010, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Book reviews

• Rich Gazan (2009).  Fundamentals of Information Studies: Understanding Information and Its Environment, 2nd ed., by June Lester and Wallace C. Koehler, New York: Neal Schuman.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 60(2), 429.
• Rich Gazan (2007).  Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies, by Rob Kling, Howard Rosenbaum and Steve Sawyer, Medford, NJ: Information Today.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 58(1), 151-152.

Other presentations

• Rich Gazan (2011).  Do Librarians Do Science?  Hawaii-Pacific Chapter of the Special Libraries Association.  University of Hawaii, 17 October 2011.
• Rich Gazan (2011).  Astrobiology Integrative Research Framework (AIRFrame): Introduction and Current Projects.  Computational Astrobiology Summer School, University of Hawaii, 9 August 2011.
• Rich Gazan (2011).  How Interdisciplinary is Astrobiology?  NASA Astrobiology Institute Winter School, University of Hawaii,  3-17 January 2011.
• Rich Gazan (2009).  Water and Habitable Worlds; Astrobiology Integrative Research Framework (AIRFrame).  NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) Team Overview Seminar, 22 April 2009.
  
• Rich Gazan (2009).  Integrating Diverse Domains of Investigation in Astrobiology.  University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, Astrobiology Seminar, 8 February 2009.
  
• Rich Gazan (2006).  Making Google Happy: The Evolution of an Online Question Answering Community.  University of Hawaii Department of Information & Computer Sciences, 27 June 2006, Honolulu, HI.
• Rich Gazan (2004).  Creating Hybrid Knowledge. University of British Columbia School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, 9 March 2004, Vancouver, BC.
• Rich Gazan (2004).  Hybrid Knowledge: Concepts and Applications.  University of Michigan School of Information, 4 February 2004, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Rich Gazan (2002).  Creating Connections in Multidisciplinary Problem-Focused Research: A Role for Information Studies?  UCLA Department of Information Studies, 31 Oct 2002, Los Angeles, CA.

 

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