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Dr. Ciaran B. Trace, Professor, School of Information

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Ciaran B. Trace and James A. Hodges, “Algorithmic Futures: The Intersection of Algorithms and Evidentiary Work,” forthcoming in Information, Communication, and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2255656


• James Hodges and Ciaran B. Trace, “Preserving Algorithmic Systems: A Synthesis of Overlapping Approaches, Materialities, and Contexts,” Journal of Documentation 79 (6) (2023): 1380-1392. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-09-2022-0204


• Ciaran B. Trace, Yan Zhang, Siqi Yi, and Marian Yvette Williams-Brown, “Information Practices Around Genetic Testing for Ovarian Cancer Patients,” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 74 (11) (2023): 1265-1281. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24823


• Yan Zhang and Ciaran B. Trace, “The Quality of Health and Wellness Self-tracking Data: A Consumer Perspective,” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 73 (6) (2022): 879-891. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24591


• Ciaran B. Trace, “Archives, Information Infrastructure, and Maintenance Work,” Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) 16 (1) (2022).


• Ciaran B. Trace, “Archival Infrastructure and the Information Backlog,” Archival Science 22 (1) (2022): 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-021-09368-x


• Yan Zhang, Siqi Yi, Ciaran B. Trace, and Marian Yvette Williams-Brown, “Understanding the Information Needs of Patients With Ovarian Cancer Regarding Genetic Testing to Inform Intervention Design: Interview Study,” JMIR Cancer 8 (1) (2022): e31263. https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/31263


• Ciaran B. Trace and Yan Zhang, “Minding the Gap: Creating Meaning From Missing and Anomalous Data,” Information & Culture 56 (2) (2021): 178-216. https://doi.org/10.7560/IC56204


• Ciaran B. Trace, “Maintaining Records in Context? Disrupting the Theory and Practice of Archival Classification and Arrangement,” American Archivist 83 (2) (Fall/Winter 2020): 322-372. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-83.2.322


• Ciaran B. Trace, “Maintaining Records in Context: A Historical Exploration of the Theory and Practice of Archival Classification and Arrangement,” American Archivist 83 (1) (Spring/Summer 2020): 91-127. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-83.1.91


• Ciaran B. Trace and Yan Zhang, “The Quantified-Self Archive: Documenting Lives through Self-Tracking Data,” Journal of Documentation 76 (1) (2019): 290-316. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2019-0064


• Yalin Sun, Yan Zhang, Jacek Gwizdka, and Ciaran B. Trace, “Consumer Evaluation of the Quality of Online Health Information: A Systematic Literature Review of Criteria and Indicators,” JMIR: Journal of Medical Internet Research 21 (5) (2019). https://doi.org/10.2196/12522


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Sweeping out the Capitol: The State Archives and the Politics of Administration in Georgia, 1921-1923," American Archivist 80 (2) (Fall/Winter 2017): 373-406. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-80.2.373


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Phenomenology, Experience, and the Essence of Documents as Objects," Information Research 22 (1) (2017).


• Ciaran B. Trace and Unmil P. Karadkar, "Information Management in the Humanities: Scholarly Processes, Tools, and the Construction of Personal Collections," Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 68 (2) (February 2017): 491-507. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23678


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Ethnomethodology: Foundational Insights on the Nature and Meaning of Documents in Everyday Life," Journal of Documentation 72 (1)(2016): 47-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2015-0014


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Atlanta Between the Wars: The Creation of the Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1918-1936," Information & Culture: A Journal of History 50 (4) (2015): 504-553. https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2015.0023


• Ciaran B. Trace and Luis Francisco-Revilla, "The Value and Complexity of Collection Arrangement for Evidentiary Work," Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 66 (9)(2015): 1857-1882. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23295


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Information in Everyday Life: Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs as Sponsors of Literacy, 1900-1920," Information & Culture: A Journal of History 49 (3) (2014): 265-293. https://doi.org/10.7560/IC49301


• Ciaran B. Trace and Andrew Dillon, "The Evolution of the Finding Aid in the United States: From Physical to Digital Document Genre," Archival Science 12 (4) (2012): 501-519. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-012-9190-5


• Ciaran B. Trace and Carlos Ovalle, "Archival Reference and Access: Syllabi and a Snapshot of the Archival Canon," The Reference Librarian (53) (2012): 76-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2011.596364


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Beyond the Magic to the Mechanism: Computers, Materiality and What it Means for Records to Be 'Born Digital,'" Archivaria 72 (Fall 2011): 5-27.


• Charlotte P. Lee and Ciaran B. Trace, "The Role of Information in a Community of Hobbyist Collectors," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60 (3) (2009): 621-637. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20996


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Resistance and the Underlife: Informal Written Literacies and their Relationship to Human Information Behavior," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59 (10) (2008): 1540-1554. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20871


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Information Creation and the Notion of Membership," Journal of Documentation 63 (1) (January 2007): 142-163. https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410710723920


• Ciaran B. Trace, "For Love of the Game: An Ethnographic Analysis of Archival Reference Work," Archives and Manuscripts 34 (1) (May 2006): 124-143.


• Ciaran B. Trace, "What is Recorded is Never Simply 'What Happened:' Record-keeping in Modern Organizational Culture," Archival Science: International Journal of Recorded Information 2 (1) (2002): 137 - 159. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02435634

Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Siqi Yi, Yan Zhang, Ciaran B. Trace, and Marian Yvette Williams-Brown, "Ovarian Cancer Patients’ Search for Genetic Testing Information on the Internet," in ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’22), March 14–18, 2022, Regensburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3498366.3505781


• Isto Huvila, Jane Greenberg, Olle Sköld, Andrea Thomer, Ciaran Trace, and Xintong Zhao, "Documenting Information Processes and Practices: Paradata, Provenance Metadata, Life-Cycles, and Pipelines," in Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 58 (1) (2021): 604-609. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.509


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Delayed while Pending Some Action: The Information Backlog as Deferred Maintenance," in Proceedings of the Maintainers III Conference, Practice, Policy and Care, Washington DC, October 6-9, 2019.


• Ciaran B. Trace and Yan Zhang, "Towards a Typology of Self-Tracking Gaps," in Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW2515, 6 pages. Acceptance rate: 42.2%. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312867


• Ciaran B. Trace and Yan Zhang, "Configuring Personal Data for a Quantified-Self Archive," in Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW2514, 6 pages. Acceptance rate: 42.2%. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313017


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Phenomonology, Experience, and the Essence of Documents as Objects," in Proceedings of the CoLIS 9 Conference, Uppsala University, June 27-29, 2016. Acceptance rate: 55%.


• Luis Francisco-Revilla, Ciaran B. Trace, Haoyang Li and Sarah A. Buchanan, "Encoded Archival Description: Data Quality and Analysis," in Proceedings of the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting (vol. 51): Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities, Ed. A. Grove. Silver Spring, MD, 2014. pp. 1-10. Acceptance rate: 37%. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.2014.14505101043


• Luis Francisco-Revilla and Ciaran B. Trace, "Enhancing Evidentiary Work through the Lens of Human Centered Computing," in Proceedings of the Society of American Archivists, Research Forum (SAA 2013), New Orleans, LA. August 2013.


• Ciaran B. Trace and Unmil P. Karadkar, "Technological Devices in the Archives: A Policy Analysis ,” in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2013), Bangalore, India. December 9-11, 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 8279, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 35-44. Acceptance rate: 25%. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03599-4_5


• Loriene Roy, Ciaran Trace, and Sarah Gilbert,"'Indigenous Ways': Assessing the Awareness of and Potential Need for Identifying Content on Indigenous Worldview in Educating Libraries/Archives/Museum (LAM) Entry Level Professionals," in Proceedings of the World Library and Information Congress: IFLA General Conference and Assembly, (August 17-23, 2013).


• Jeff Crow, Luis Francisco-Revilla, April Norris, Shilpa Shukla, and Ciaran B. Trace, "A Unique Arrangement: Organizing Collections for Digital Libraries, Archives, and Repositories," in International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2012). Paphos, Cyprus. September 23-27, 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3232, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 335-344. Acceptance rate: 23%. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_36


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Documenting Work and Working Documents: Perspectives from Workplace Studies, CSCW, and Genre Studies," in Proceedings of the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 4-7, 2011, Computer Society Press, 2011 (10 pages). https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2011.170

Book Chapters

• Loriene Roy and Ciaran Trace, "Beyond Stewardship and Consultation: Use, Care, and Protection of Indigenous Cultural Heritage," in Cultural Heritage Care and Management: Theory and Practice, ed. Cecilia L. Salvatore (Rowman & Littlefield; 2018): 17-28.


• Loriene Roy and Ciaran B. Trace, "Preparing Entry-Level Information Professionals for Work with and for Indigenous Peoples," in Indigenous Notions of Ownership and Libraries, Archives, and Museums, eds. Camille Callison, Loriene Roy, and Gretchen Alice LeCheminant (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016): 157-178.


• Ciaran B. Trace, "On or Off the Record? Notions of Value in the Archive," in Currents of Archival Thinking, eds. Terry Eastwood and Heather MacNeil (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited, 2010): 47-68.


• Ciaran B. Trace, "The Significance of the 'Humdrum Elements of Human Existence:' an Exploration of the Role of Records in Everyday Life," in Archives and Archivists (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006): 200-212.

Encyclopedia Articles

• Ciaran B. Trace, "Archival Arrangement," in Encyclopedia of Archival Science, eds. Luciana Duranti and Patricia C. Franks (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2015): 21-24.


• Ciaran B. Trace, "Record Group," in Encyclopedia of Archival Science, eds. Luciana Duranti and Patricia C. Franks (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2015): 312-315.

Reports

• Ciaran Trace, "Applying Content Analysis to Case Study Data," Prepared for the Authenticity Task Force of InterPARES, 2001 (14 pages).

Peer Reviewed Conference Posters

• Sarah A. Buchanan, Julia Bullard, William Aspray, Diane Bailey, Lecia Barker, Daniel Carter, Tanya Clement, Nicholas Gottschlich, James Howison, Stephen McLaughlin, Melissa Ocepek, Daniel Sholler and Ciaran B. Trace,"Collaborative Syllabus Design for Studying Information Work," in Proceedings of the 80th Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting 54 (1) (2017): 630-632. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401094


• Ciaran B. Trace, Katherine Cruz, Daiki Yonemaru, & Yan Zhang, "Data Ecosystem in Self-tracking Health and Wellness Apps," in Proceedings of the 80th Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting 54 (1) (2017): 816-818. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401169


• Unmil P. Karadkar and Ciaran B. Trace, "Mobile Device Policies in Archives Reading Rooms," in Proceedings of the 76th Annual Conference of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIST' 13), Montreal, CA, November 1-6, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14505001173

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The University of Texas at Austin
School of Information
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Austin, TX 78701-1213

(512) 232-3508

cbtrace[at]austin.utexas.edu


https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7118-6610