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

[Michel Menou]

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	[icie] Robert Montoya wins the 2016 Litwin Books Award for 
Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information
Date: 	Fri, 1 Jul 2016 07:38:15 -0700
From: 	Rory Litwin <rlitwin at gmail.com>
To: 	Library and Information Science Information and Discussion List 
<JESSE at lists.wayne.edu>, StanleyK at yahoogroups.com, icie at zkm.de, 
sighfis-l at asis.org, is-phd-chat at lists.gseis.ucla.edu



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.

Aucun virus trouvé dans ce message.
Analyse effectuée par AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com>
Version: 2016.0.7640 / Base de données virale: 4613/12532 - Date: 01/07/2016

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/students-l/attachments/20160701/2aab93c1/attachment-0001.html>