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Welcome to the Ph.D. News Webpage. This Webpage site contains items of interest to iSchool Ph.D. students at University of Texas at Austin. This week's events are normally posted each Sunday. Special events, additions, and changes during the week are noted in red. Significant future calendar events are posted as they are received. Corrections and comments are always appreciated . Announcements Congratulations to
Beth Letalien The title of her research
is HOORAY! SUCCESSFULLY
DEFENDED HER PROPOSAL ON MONDAY, APRIL 5. BE SURE TO SHAKE HER HAND WHEN YOU SEE HER.
This Week's Events Time Correction. Sunday, May 1, 7:00-8 PM, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Mozart, Coronation Mass. the combined choirs of Covenant Presbyterian and St. Johns United Methodist Churches are presenting with orchestra, the Mozart Coronation Mass. Do hope some of you can come. Together we've about 90 singers and it's a good orchestra (also including Rutter's O Clap Your Hands.) Monday, May 2, 9-11 AM, SZB 556, Lori Eichelberger, Rural Public Libraries and the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund. Dr. Doty is to announce that Lori Eichelberger will present her dissertation proposal in the above time and place. Lori relies on Naturalistic Inquiry for the research. Sharon Strover (chair of the department of Radio-TV-Film in the College of Communication), Irene Owens, Mary Lynn Rice Lively, Pat Galloway, and Dr. Phil Doty have had the pleasure of serving as Lori's committee. Print copies of the abstract and proposal are on the table just in front of Kai's spot in the main iSchool office for those of you interested in reading about the proposed study in more detail. For more information please contact Dr. Doty. Monday, May 2, 8-10 PM, Bates, Combined Concert, Classical Perfection. Mozart Mass in C Minor, (The Great) and Beethoven Choral Fantasy. Dr. James Morrow conducts the UT Choral Arts Society, UT Chamber Singers,and the UT Symphony Orchestra in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (The Great), and Ludwig van Beethoven, Choral Fantasy. Featuring Anton Nel, piano. Admission is $16.00 for the general public, $13.00 for faculty/staff, and $10.00 for students. Tickets are available on the web, by phone, 477-6060, at the UT PAC ticket office, at the Erwin Center, at HEB stores, and at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. ADDED EVENT. Thursday, May 5, 6-8 PM, Vivo Cocina, ASIST Happy Hour. A great opportunity for area professionals, students, and UT faculty to mingle, exchange ideas, and get to know one another. This event is an encore of our March happy hour, back by popular demand. Stop by and see what all of the buzz is about! Vivo Cocina is at 2015 Manor Road, east of campus. For more information please visit the ASIST event page or contact Erika. Friday, May 6, Last day of classes. Friday, May 6, 9 AM - Noon, SZB 468, Capstone presentations. For more information, please visit the Capstone Website. Friday, May 6, 10-11 AM, CBA6.420, Debabrata Dey, Efficient Techniques for On-Line Record Linkage in Heterogeneous Databases. The need to consolidate the information contained in heterogeneous data. sources has been widely documented in recent years. In order to accomplish this goal, an organization must resolve several types of heterogeneity problems, especially the entity heterogeneity problem that arises when the same real-world entity type is represented using different identifiers in different data sources. Statistical record linkage techniques could be used for resolving this problem. However, the use of such techniques for on-line record linkage could pose a tremendous communication bottleneck in a distributed environment (where entity heterogeneity problems are often encountered). In order to resolve this issue, we propose techniques that reduce the communication overhead significantly, yet provide matching results that are guaranteed to be the same as those obtained using the conventional linkage techniques. These techniques have been implemented, and experiments with real-world data show significant reduction in communication overhead. For more information, please contact Dr. Turnbull. Saturday, May 7, 5-7 PM, Dona Emilia's South American Grill, ISchool Student Organization Social. The end of the year SASI cocktail party will be held at Dona Emilia's South American Grill, 101 San Jacinto Blvd. RSVP would be appreciated. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Cara or any of the other new co-directors.
Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Tuesday, May 10, Noon-1 PM, SZB 468, Open House, If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything. The iSchool has hosted "If I Can Read" since fall 1999 and now works with 21 sites to promote reading. We've raised $170,000 in funds for the project and have delivered services, including $100,000 in new books to tribal libraries. If you have questions about what the program is, what project volunteers do, or how you can help, please come join us. It will be an informal Q&A session, so you are free to come and go as you need. Refreshments will be provided! For more information, please contact Dr. Loriene Roy or Vanessa Sanchez. Friday-Saturday, May 13-14, 10 AM - 3 PM, UT Press, Book Sale. Discounts up to 90 percent. All new books 40 percent off. Hugh selection of $3 and $5 "hurt" books. More. For more information please visit the sale Website. Friday, May 13, 4-6 PM, LBJ Hill, UT SAA Journal
Club meeting. We know you've been busy, but be sure and come by the SAA
Journal Club meeting atop the hill and under the trees at the LBJ
Library complex. bring a snack and enjoy the shade, the ample parking and
intelligent discourse about the current issue of "American Archivist"
(available at HRC and CDL). For more information, please contact Courtney
Chartier,
UT SAA Chapter Vice President. Saturday, May 21, 9-11AM, Bass, Graduate School Convocation for Masters Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studied Website and the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Saturday, May 21, 11 AM - Noon, Alumni Center, Graduate School Reception for Masters Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. Saturday, May 21, Noon-1PM, Bass, Graduate School Convocation for Doctoral Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. and the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Saturday, May 21, 1-2 PM, Alumni Center, Graduate School Reception for Doctoral Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. Saturday, May 21, 3-4 PM, UNB 2.228 (Texas Union Theater), iSchool Convocation.For more information please contact Melba Claymon by email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 21, 4-6 PM, UNB 3.502 (Santa Rita Room), iSchool Graduation Reception. For more information please contact Melba Claymon by email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 21, 7:00-10:30 PM, South Mall, UT Commencement. For more information please visit the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Sunday-Friday, May 22-27, Texas A&M, History of Books and Printing Workshop. The Fourth Annual &M Workshop in the History of Books and Printing will take place at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives of Texas A&M, College Station, TX. This five-day workshop provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to and survey of the history of books and printing. The workshop is intended for librarians, archivists, students, teachers, collectors, private individuals and others who work in areas related to or who have an interest in the subject. The course consists of a unique combination of labs and seminars designed to provide students with practical experience as well as a broad historical survey of the field. The lab sessions will concentrate on printing in the hand press era and its allied technologies--typecasting, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and ink-making. Students will have the opportunity cast type in a hand mould. They will also set type, impose forms, and print on a replica common press. The seminar sessions will provide a chronological survey of book and printing history, beginning briefly with pre-codex structures and then concentrating on developments in the hand press era. Tuition is $600 and may provide three hours of graduate credit from University of North Texas. For registration and other information, please visit the workshop Website or contact Chris Morrow, at the library, via email or phone, 979-845-1951. Monday, May 30, Submission Due: Full papers and
posters submission to be included in the Proceedings. Call for papers for the Second International Conference on Knowledge Management--Nurturing Culture, Innovation, and Technology--Jointly organized by the Information and Knowledge Management Society ( i KMS) & The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) http://www.ickm2005.org . The second International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2005) will be held at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in the Westin Charlotte, North Carolina on October 27-28, 2005 . The conference will bring together academics, researchers, developers, practitioners, and users in the areas of knowledge management and information processing. It will serve as a platform for networking, exchange of research ideas, practical applications and best practices. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work on all aspects of information and knowledge management. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Submission Website: http://www.softconf.com/start/ICKM_ASIST2005/submit.html . For further information please contact Suliman Hawamdeh or Michael Smith . Tuesday-Sunday, August 16-21, New Orleans, SAA Annual Meeting. Please contact Dr. Gracy for more information. Who We Are Webpage The information on the Ph.D. student Webpage is slowly growing. Names of all current Ph.D. students have been added. Your other information is needed to complete it . Please send Don a jpeg photo, information to post, and a link to your Website whenever you can. What is this Webpage? Well, as we agreed in spring semester, 2002, we wanted to have a summary page with a list of all Ph.D. students and links to more detailed information on each of us. The summary page consist of a photo, name, academic interest, contact information, and links to other pages. A detail page repeats the summary information and provides, education, a brief biography, and specialization. Students information should be linked to each student's individual Website with their vita, resume, and any other information they may wish to provide. If there is interest, we can also add Ph.D. alumni to this list. There is an input form that might work with your browser. Otherwise you can copy and paste.
Professional Associations, Email Lists, and other Forums Information on professional associations, student governance organizations, email lists and and other forums of interest to Information school Ph.D. students is provided through the Ph.D. Forums link on the left. Included is information on email lists, Blackboard, Websites and other forums.
Information School Forums The school of information sponsors weekly or fortnightly iForums (or iFora) of interest to School of Information Students and Faculty. Scholars from across the campus and occasionally from other universities are invited to present their work at a forum. From time to time, Ph.D. students are also invited to present their work to the forum. Each individual forum will be listed in the above schedule when details are known. In 2001 and 2002 , Ph.D. students organized the Ph.D. students organized a colloquia to share their work in a friendly environment. The last series we had was the Fall 2002 Ph.D. Colloquia Series. Such a series could be reestablished if there was an interest. If you are interested in leading such a series, please contact Don Drumtra for his experience on leading the 2002 Colloquia
Orientations New students (and even old) might appreciate the following
two Orientation Websites:
Disclaimer. The following information is compiled from various sources and is current as of the time it was written and the documents available. It is not official UT, Graduate School, or School of Information policy. It is offered to help Ph.D. students gain an overview of Ph.D. requirements. Please refer to official sources for current information before taking irreversible action. General. UT Graduate School requirements for award of the Ph.D. degree are listed in the UT Graduate Catalog. Detailed requirements for the School of Information are listed the provided on the Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman provided an unofficial summary of the requirements to the participants in the Fall 2004 Ph.D. Orientation. Milestones. Program milestones consist of development and approval of a Program of Study, satisfactory completion of course work and a comprehensive doctoral examination including written, oral, and research components, presentation and approval of credentials to Graduate School (including a separate Program of Work), approval of a dissertation proposal, research and completion of a dissertation culminating in a final examination consisting of defense of the the dissertation and final presentation approval of the student's credentials to the Graduate School. Administrative progress through most of these milestones is described in the Checklist for the Doctoral Program (1993). Annual reviews are submitted to the students Advising Committee so that the committee may evaluate the student's progress. The student's Supervising Committee monitors the student's progress after the student reaches candidacy. Graduate Studies Committee. Within the School of Information, the Graduate Studies Committee or GSC approves the students Program of Study and Annual review. Doctoral Program of Study. The content of the Program of Study is provided in the Guidelines for Development of the Doctoral Program of Study (ca. 1993). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved programs on their Websites. Annual Review. Required content of the Annual Reviews is provided in the Annual Review of GSLIS Doctoral Students (2002) and the Annual Review of Ph.D. Students (draft, 2003). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved Annual Reviews on their Websites. Qualifying Procedures. In order to qualify to apply for candidacy, the iSchool requires a written exam and oral defense (often called the comprehensive exam or "comps") and a research paper accepted by the student's committee. This committee (perhaps, it could be called the Examination Committee) ordinarily consists of three members of the iSchool faculty and one outside member. The three iSchool members could be your Advising Committee, potential members of your Supervising Committee, or any other three members who agree to serve. Application for Candidacy. On June 1, 2004 the UT Office of Graduate Studies automated the application for candidacy and placed it online. Instructions for completion of and a link to the actual online form is provided in the application Webpage. Other candidacy requirements are also provided on that page including the requirement for the Program of Work.
Dissertation. Requirements for the content of your dissertation are developed between you and your Supervising Committee and the Graduate School sets guidelines for format. There are two format guidelines are provided by the Graduate School (Office of Graduate Studies or OGS), print guidelines and electronic submission guidelines. Even though you must submit your dissertation electronically, you would do well to meet both guidelines because someone might very well want to print your dissertation in the future. An a point of interest, the final authority on both the content and format of your dissertation is your Supervisory Committee--not the folks in the Office of Graduate Studies. However, the OGS folks can make life really difficult for you if you do not listen to them. Dr. Harmon and eleven other UT advisors have published dissertation tips for doctoral students. It is posted on the UT Intellectual Entrepreneurship, Dissertation List-Serve and Resources Webpage. The Webpage also contains a dissertation writing bibliography, reflections of former graduate deans on dissertation completion, advice from UT alumni, and numerous other useful items for Ph.D. students. Final Oral Exam (Defense of Dissertation. A satisfactory final oral examination is required for the approval of a dissertation. The Office of Graduate Studies publishes the time and place of this examination. The exam is open to all members of the University community and the public, unless attendance is restricted by the Graduate Studies Committee. Information is available in the Graduate Catalog and an application form are available from the Office of Graduate Studies. Application for Graduation. There are lots of forms for graduation listed by the Office of Graduate Studies. You would be well advised to visit the office of Graduate Studies well before the deadlines to be sure you have the latest information and do not forget an essential form the absence of which might hold up your graduation. Graduation. After all that work you won't want to miss the graduation celebration and fireworks at the end of the spring semester. UT introduced a new doctoral robe in 2001, which will be first available for graduating students in May, 2005. You can be one of the first scholars to wear one. Additional Sources. The University of Texas and the UT Office of Graduate Studies provide the latest information on degree and administrative requirements requirements in three publications:
Research Methods and Other Graduate Courses The iSchool PhD Methods Courses Webpage lists many research methods courses available in the university that may be suitable for meeting the iSchool Ph.D. research methods requirements listed on the iSchool Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman has written an excellent summary that should be of particular interest. She describes her summary as follows, "yo, in case (like me) you were overwhelmed by the number of research methods courses that seemed available at UT, but were suspiciously vague in terms of description -- here is a list that I've compiled with/ course names & descriptions. the doctoral studies committee & your own advisor may be able to make further recommendations as to which would be specifically appropriate for you" (2003 Dec. 15, personal communications). Doctoral Committee recommendations will be posted on this Website as soon as they become available. Research Methods in Information Systems, MIS 381N.26. Earlier, Lisa provided us this information on a this course. "The Information Systems department in the Business School is interested in having more iSchool folk taking their courses. In particular, Ph.D. students may want to consider taking “Research Methods in Information Systems” taught by Alina Chircu. I took this class last year, and it provides an excellent survey of the multitude of different research methods (both qualitative and quantitative) as applied to understanding the effects of information technology. Alina is very flexible about the core focus areas, so if a whole bunch of people want to “study X”, she'll find a way to incorporate it. If you’re a Masters student, you can take this course if you’re interested in subjecting yourself to reading a ga-zillion journal articles from the latest sexy issues of MIS Quarterly... which ain’t the “Miss Quarterly” that I was hoping for, let me tell you... The course is offered in spring 2004" (personal communications). Information provided by Lisa Kleinman. For more information about the course see the Course Webpage or contact Dr. Chircu" (2003 Oct. 31, personal communications). Statistics Website. The Website, www.statpages.net, provides about 600 links and about 380 statistical calculators. It is now owned by AOL. Recently AOL has begun restricting its content to AOL members, so please let me know if this Website becomes inaccessible. Graduate School Courses provide a unique opportunity for School of Information Ph.D. students because they provide a multidisciplinary atmosphere of learning. Students from across the campus attend these courses and share experiences and viewpoints form their own departments. Two courses of major interest to our programs are: Academic
and Professional Writing, GRS 390W, normally offered in
the fall semester. This course meets the Ph.D. program writing
requirement. Dissertation Courses and Other Information. In January or February of each year the Graduate School has a workshop on dissertations. The Graduate School Website also provide formats for dissertations, information on how to prepare digital dissertations, and various forms you will need for graduation. Check to Be Sure. Please do not forget however, that not all of the courses listed will be satisfactory to meet any particularly student's Ph.D. program requirements. "Since advancement to candidacy is contingent on faculty approval of a course of work, the student should consult regularly with their committee on matters of course selection" (School of Information, undated, Academic programs, Ph.D.). Information on Qualitative Research Methods. In September 2004, Dr. Davis loaned a copy of the three-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004) to the lab for our use. It not only provides excellent summaries of lots of issues and topics related to research methodology, but it provides reference sources under each topic to allow further exploration. A copy is also available is also at the PCL reference desk. Content Manager: Don Drumtra 2005 May 7 |
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