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P. Bryan Heidorn's areas of research include natural language processing, text mining for metadata and information retrieval, particularly in biodiversity literature, and museum informatics.
Heidorn became the Director of the School of Information when the School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS) merged with the School of Information Science, Technology and Arts (SISTA) in July 2015. From 2009 to 2015 he was the SIRLS Director. Dr. Heidorn stepped down as Director in January 2019 and now serves as the Director of Research and the Associate Director. Prior to coming to the UA, Heidorn was a faculty member of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For the last two years he also served as a program manager of the Division of Biological Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation. Bryan served in a number of posts including President, VP and Grants Committee Chair of the JRS Biodiversity Foundation which funds work in Africa and South America for biodiversity informatics projects for 7 years ending 2013. He has served to several years on the Organization for Tropical Studies Science and Informatics Committees. He is currently the the Chair of the Informatics Committee and on the OTS Board of Directors.Show Less
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Courses
- RMLIPResearch Methods for Library and Information Professionals
- PPreservation
- FIFoundations of Information
- COCCollaborating in Online Communities
- IIRIssues in Information Resources
- IRMInformation Research Methods
- STDBDWSpecial Topics in a Digital and Big Data World
Grants
- CP CESU: Processing and Cataloging Cultural Resources Archives
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$151.8K
Active - Make Records from NPS Units Available
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$166.1K
Active - Process and Rehouse National Trails Office Records
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$41.4K
Active - Prepare Pacific West NHL Records for Scanning
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$26.7K
Active - Cooperative Research and Training Program-Resources of the National Park System
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$11.2K
Active - Appraise Bandelier NM Electronic Records
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$10.6K
Active - Advance Preservation of and Access to National Park Service Archives
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$294.3K
Active - Library Integration and Cataloging
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$41.1K
Active - Collaborative Research: Converging Genomics, Phenomics, and Environments Using Interpretable Machine Learning Models
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$483.0K
Active - Increase Public Availability of Archives
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$361.8K
Active
Technologies / Patents
News
- UA Creates Center for Digital Society and Data Studies
2016
- UA Launches School of Information
2015
- eSociety Program to Teach Social Aspects of Digital Age
2013
- Needed: A Global Bioinformatics System
2012
- UA's Knowledge River Program Lands Federal Grant
2011
- New Director Starts at SIRLS
2009
Publications (73)
Recent
- The Astrolabe Project: Identifying and curating astronomical ‘dark data’ through development of cyberinfrastructure resources.
2018
- Working beyond the confines of academic discipline to resolve a real-world problem: A community of scientists discussing long-tail data in the cloud.
2016
- Working beyond the confines of academic discipline to resolve a real-world problem: A community of scientists discussing long-tail data in the cloud. First Monday, 21 (2).
2016
- The language of biodiversity informatics: Students identifying with science
2016
- Discourses, a community of scientists, and long-tail data in the cloud
2015
- Datasphere at the Biosphere II: Computation and data in the wild
2015
- Advances in Augmented Museum Metadata Digitization
2014
- Improving the Character of Optical Character Recognition (OCR): iDigBio Augmenting OCR Working Group Seeks Collaborators and Strategies to Improve OCR Output and Parsing of OCR Output...
2013
- Augmenting Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Improved Digitization: Strategies to Access Scientific Data in Natural History Collections
2012
- Label Annotation through Biodiversity Enhanced Learning
2012
- Improving the Character of Optical Character Recognition (OCR): iDigBio Augmenting OCR Working Group Seeks Collaborators and Strategies to Improve OCR Output and Parsing of OCR Output
2012
- The Emerging Role of Libraries in Data Curation and E-science
2011
- Biodiversity Informatics
2011
- Name Matters: Taxonomic Name Recognition (TNR) in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
2010
- New measures for the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems: Normalized task completion time and normalized user effectiveness
2010
- The National Biological Information Infrastructure
2010
- Extending the data curation curriculum to practicing LIS professionals
2009
- Shedding light on the dark data in the long tail of science
2008
- Improving information access to digital botanical collection by allowing users to search with domain knowledge
2008
- Taxonomic Name Recognition in Biodiversity Heritage Library
2008
- Automatic Metadata Extraction Using Machine Learning
2008
- The loss of domain knowledge in user search queries: A query log analysis of a botanical retrieval system
2008
- Automatic metadata extraction from museum specimen labels
2008
- Data Curation Education
2008
- Interactive Machine Learning (IML) Markup of OCR Generated Text by Exploiting Domain Knowledge: A Biodiversity Case Study
2008
- Identifying best practices and skills for workforce development in data curation
2007
- The reusability of induced knowledge for the automatic semantic markup of taxonomic descriptions
2007
- Data curation education and biological information specialists
2007
- Using automatically extracted information in species page retrieval
2007
- The Inquiry Page
2007
- Data curation for the long tail of science: The case of environmental studies
2007
- Biological information specialists for biological informatics
2007
- An educational program on data curation
2007
- Studies of data curation for the long tail of science
2007
- TaxonX: A lightweight and flexible xml schema for mark-up of taxonomic treatments
2006
- Supporting biological information work: research and education for digital resources and long-lived data
2006
- Supporting community inquiry with digital resources
2006
- Growing vocabularies for plant identification and scientific learning
2005
- The Structured Descriptive Data (SDD) w3c-xml-schema, version 1.0
2005
- A comparison of biodiversity informatics and neuroinformatics, Part 2
2004
- Community Inquiry Labs as Effective Community Informatics Tools
2004
- OpenKey: Illinois-North Carolina Collaborative Environment for Botanical Resources
2003
- The inquiry page: Bridging digital libraries to learners
2003
- OpenKey
2003
- Biodiversity and biocomplexity informatics: Policy and implementation science versus citizen science
2002
- The inquiry page: Learning with digital libraries
2002
- Reprocessing paper-based reference materials for the digital environment
2002
- Complementary user-centered methodologies for information seeking and use: System's design in the Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE)
2002
- An approach to automatic classification of text for information retrieval
2002
- A tool for multipurpose use of online Flora and Fauna
2001
- A tool for multipurpose use of online flora and fauna: The Biological Information Browsing Environment, BIBE
2001
- REVIEWS-Digital Image Access \ Retrieval
2000
- The Interaction of Result Set Display Dimensionality and Cognitive Factors in Information Retrieval Systems
2000
- The Identification of Index Terms in Natural Language Object Description
1999
- Image retrieval as linguistic and nonlinguistic visual model matching
1999
- Book Review: The Perception of Visual Information (2nd ed.) by W. Hendree and P. Wells.
1998
- Prototypes and Idealizations in Natural Language Shape Descriptions.
1998
- Shapes from natural language in Verbal Image
1998
- Evaluation of Thesauri for automatic query expansion and searching within document structure
1998
- University ofIllinois, Urbana-Champaign
1998
- Huber, JC, 471
1998
- Incorporating social informatics into the curriculum for library and information science professionals
1998
- Digital image access \ retrieval
1997
- List of Contents
1997
- Natural language processing of visual language for image storage and retrieval
1997
- 33d annual UIUC clinic highlights digital image storage and retrieval: overview
1996
- Shape language processing and visual feedback for image indexing and retrieval
1995
- Automatic Content Indexing of Image Data Bases
1994
- Is spatial information imprecise or just coarsely coded?
1993
- The structure of cognitive maps: Representations and processes
1993
- Identifying tacit strategies in aircraft maneuvers
1991