Research is a collective practice.

Advising and collaboration connect careful questions with durable methods, shared infrastructure, and scholarship that others can build upon.

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Advising approach / Shared standards

Questions first. Methods in service.

The strongest projects begin with a consequential information problem, then develop the technical and conceptual tools needed to study it rigorously.

Build from the question

Let the research question determine the archive, dataset, vocabulary, or system—not the other way around.

Make work inspectable

Record decisions, provenance, limitations, and transformations so findings remain understandable.

Leave useful infrastructure

Favor reusable methods, open artifacts, and durable scholarly systems that support the next inquiry.

Section 02 / PhD advisees

Recent doctoral work.

Two 2026 dissertations demonstrate the range of this research community: professional ethics evaluation and the provenance of semantic change.

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Section 03 / Doctoral committees

Inquiry across disciplines.

Committee service extends this work into information science, responsible computing, knowledge organization, archival systems, and data-intensive scholarship.

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Current committee work

Doctoral researchers

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Completed committee work

Selected dissertations

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Section 04 / Collaborations

A network organized by questions.

Collaborative work brings together expertise in archives, metadata, web systems, scholarly communication, information ethics, and science policy.

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Section 05 / Prospective work

Start with the research fit.

Prospective students and collaborators are welcome to make contact when their questions intersect with web archives, digital libraries, metadata, provenance, semantic change, or durable scholarly infrastructure.

Begin a conversation

A useful first message includes

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Your questionWhat do you want to understand or change?
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The connectionWhich research area or current project overlaps?
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Your perspectiveWhat experience, discipline, or method do you bring?