[Sighfis-l] Robert Montoya wins the 2016 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information

[Rory Litwin]

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 Litwin Books Award for
Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information. We are
granting this year’s award to Robert Montoya of the UCLA Department of
Information Studies, based on his dissertation project, tentatively titled,
“Articulating Composite Taxonomies: Epistemology and the Global Unification
of Biodiversity Databases.” Montoya's nominating faculty member wrote:

"Our field, information studies, is often misunderstood as a field in which
technocrats and managers impose standards on data or records for the
purpose of implementing tasks that make it easier for people to find and
use information or cultural legacy materials. This misapprehension ignores
the complex and profound inquiry into the nature of knowledge models,
epistemological discourse, and the historicity of these models and
discourses across fields, disciplines and professions. Robert Montoya’s
work on classification and nomenclature is relevant to scholars and
scientists working with the identification and assessment of species
viability. Perhaps more importantly for the Information Studies community,
his work on classification used in the natural sciences is going to offer
insights into the ways classification systems and knowledge organization
meet a specific set of conditions in application and use. His dissertation
should also be of interest to those working in the history of science,
cultural history, bibliographical study, and discourse analysis from a
philosophy of knowledge perspective."

The award consists of a certificate suitable for framing and $1000 check.

Since this award is for ongoing research, other applicants who are still
working on their dissertations will be eligible to enter their work next
year, and we strongly encourage them to do so.

For more information about the award, please visit
http://litwinbooks.com/award.php.
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