[Sigsti-l] SIG STI Best Paper Award

[Robert R Downs]

Dear SIG STI Members,

SIG STI is pleased to announce that this year’s Best Paper Award goes to 
Andrea K. Thomer and Nicholas M. Weber for their paper, The Phylogeny of 
a Dataset, which was presented at last year’s ASIS&T annual conference 
in Seattle and appears in the Proceedings of the American Society for 
Information Science and Technology.  The paper explores the adaptation 
of phylogenetic analysis to the quantitative methodology of research 
data management applications. The reference appears, below.

Thomer, Andrea K., and Nicholas M. Weber. "The phylogeny of a dataset." 
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and 
Technology 51.1 (2014): 1-11. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.2014.14505101064

Congratulations to Andrea and Nicholas for a job well done! The award 
will be presented to Andrea and Nicholas at the STI annual business 
meeting in St. Louis in November.  Thanks to the jury for their 
dedication in selecting our award winner and we are looking forward to 
seeing you all in St. Louis.


Thanks,

Bob Downs

Robert R. Downs, PhD
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
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