Keynote Speaker

Dr. Inna Kouper

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Inna Kouper, Luddy School for Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, will be our keynote speaker for the 2022 ILS Doctoral Forum. Dr. Kouper is a research scientist at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. She studies emerging technologies and data practices and leads projects that build cyberinfrastructure and communities to advance open science and sharing. She has expertise in computer-mediated communication, data management, and information behavior. Her latest publications addressed the practices of resistance to misinformation and active curation of interdisciplinary data. She also teaches a big data management course in the graduate data science program at Indiana University. Dr. Kouper has a PhD in information science from Indiana University and a PhD in sociology from the Institute of Sociology, Moscow, Russia.

For more information about Dr. Kouper, see her page on the Luddy website.

Data Infrastructures and Communities for Openness and Transparency

Data openness and transparency improve knowledge production and dissemination. Yet, documenting and sharing data remains a challenge. Those practices are not routinely integrated in the data workflows; data work is not rewarded as an intellectual and academic activity, and the norms and policies around data collaborations vary from domain to domain. In this talk I will describe several projects that examine data practices in various communities and develop tools and recommendations aimed at improving data curation and supporting openness and transparency. Each project description will be structured around questions crucial for any scholarly inquiry: what was studied, how, why, and what’s next.

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