Biography
Karen does research on the conceptual and logical foundations of information organization systems and artifacts. She is most interested in the analysis of common concepts in information systems, such as documents, datasets, digital objects, metadata records, and collections. The need for logically consistent accounts is a pressing issue in digital environments, especially as semantic technologies (computer-processable knowledge representation languages such as RDF, OWL, and SWRL) become more commonplace for digital library and curation systems.
Before coming to Texas, Karen was a postdoctoral research and instructor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before pursuing graduate work, she worked in library technical services in California and Ohio.
Degrees
PhD and MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BS in Mathematics from the Ohio State University
Areas Of Specialization
Conceptual Foundations of Information Science
Digital Libraries
Metadata
Information Organization
Recent Publications
Karen M Wickett, Antoine Isaac, M Doerr, Katrina Fenlon, Carlo Meghini, Carole L Palmer. Representing Cultural Collections in Digital Aggregation and Exchange Environments. D-Lib Magazine. 2014. 20:5:2
Palmer, C. L., Thomer, A. K., Baker, K. S., Wickett, K. M., Varvel, V., Choudhury, S., DiLauro, T., Fouke, B., Asangba, A. E. and Rodman, A. (2013), Building a framework for site-based data curation. Proc. Am. Soc. Info. Sci. Tech., 50: 14. doi: 10.1002/meet.14505001144
Karen M. Wickett, Andrea Thomer, Simone Sacchi, Karen S. Baker, and Dave Dubin, (2012) "What Dataset Descriptions Actually Describe: Using the Systematic Assertion Model to Connect Theory and Practice." Poster presented at the 2012 ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation Summit.