Education
Doctorate in Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2012.
- Dissertation Title: Organizing scientific data sets: Studying similarities and differences in metadata and subject term creation
- Dissertation Advisor: Jane Greenberg
- Dissertation Committee: Robert Losee, Javed Mostafa, Richard Marciano, and P. Bryan Heidorn
Master of Science in Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2004.
Master of Arts in English, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. May 2003
Bachelor of Arts in English and Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, May 2001
Professional Experience
Digital Initiatives Librarian, Goodson Law Library, Duke University, August 2011-present
Metadata Research Center Doctoral Fellow, SILS Metadata Research Center–University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 2007-August 2011
Catalog Librarian, Ross-Blakley Law Library–Arizona State University, August 2004- August 2007
Graduate Assistant in Technical Services, Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Law Library– University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2003-August 2004
Teaching
School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- INLS 520, Organization of Information – Instructor (Fall 2009; Spring 2010)
- INLS 890-92, Seminar in Knowledge Organization – Teaching Assistant (Spring 2009)
Department of English, University of Georgia
- ENGL 102, First Year Composition (1 section) – Instructor (Spring 2003)
- ENGL 101, First Year Composition (2 sections) – Instructor (Fall 2002)
Publications
Articles and Proceedings Papers
White, H. (work in progress) Examining Scientific Vocabulary: Mapping Controlled Vocabularies and Free Text Keywords
White, H. and Farmer, R. (work in progress) Popular Culture in Legal Instruction.
White, H., Willis, C., & Greenberg, J. (submitted) HIVE: The Effect of a Semantic Web Technology on Inter-Indexer Consistency.
Willis, C., Greenberg, J., & White, H. (forthcoming 2012) Analysis and Synthesis of Metadata Goals for Scientific Data, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology.
Greenberg, J. Losee, R. Aguera, J. Scherle, R., White, H., and Willis, C. (2010). HIVE: Helping interdisciplinary vocabulary engineering. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 37(4).
White, H. C. (2010) Considering personal organization: Metadata practices of scientists’, Journal of Library Metadata, 10: 2, 156-172.
Greenberg, J., White, H. C., Carrier, S., & Scherle, R (2009) A metadata best practice for a science data repository. Journal of Library Metadata, 9:3, 194-212. doi:10.1080/19386380903405090
White, H., Carrier, C., Thompson, H., Greenberg, J., & Scherle, R. (2008). The Dryad Data Repository: A Singapore Framework Metadata Architecture in a DSpace Environment. Co-presenter for and appears in proceedings for DC-2008: Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Sept. 22-26, 2008, Berlin Germany, 157-162
Ching, T. & White, H. (November 2006) Breaking down the rankings: The response to the U.S. News and World Report ranking of law librarianship programs. AALL Spectrum. http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0611/pub_sp0611.pdf.
White, H. (2005) Documentation in Technical Services. The Serials Librarian (49:3).
Conference Presentations
White, H., Aiken, J., & Shapiro, F. (2012) Duke and Yale Present: Institutional Repositories and Law Reviews. Panel Presentation at American Association of Law Libraries, July 21-24, 2012 in Boston, MA.
Greenberg, J., Willis, C., and White, H. (2010). Metadata for Scientific Data: An Analysis Targeting Challenges and Opportunities in Our Global Information Ecology. 22nd International CODATA Conference, 24-27 October 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.
Bedford, D., Greenberg, J., Hodge, G., White, H., & Hlava, M. (2010) Knowledge organization: Evaluating foundation and function in the information ecosystem. Panel presentation at ASIS&T ’10 Annual Meeting, Oct. 25, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.
White, H. & Greenberg, J. (2010) SKOS and HIVE: Enhancing the Creation, Design, and Flow of Information. Educational Program Presentation for American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, July, 2010 in Denver, Colorado.
Greenberg, J., Huang, L., Losee, Rl, Perez-Aguera, J.R., White, H., Lapp, H., Scherle, R., & Vision, T. (2009) Linking data through Dryad and the HIVE Project. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applicationn, Oct 2009, Seoul, Korea.
Farmer, R, Bloomberg, A., Ginsburg, D., White, H., and Skinner, K. (2009) Unmasking A Marvel of an Idea in DC: How Graphic Literature Can Be Supertools for Law Librarians. Panel presentation for American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, July, 2009, Washington D.C.
Greenberg, J., Carrier, S., White, H., & Scherle, R. (2009) The Dryad Repository application profile: Groundwork towards a metadata scheme for scientific data. DigCCurr2009 , Chapel Hill, NC.
White, H. (2008) Thinking outside the box: How developing electronic serials standard can add fiber to your library’s diet. Panel discussion coordinator and moderator at the American Association of Law Libraries, July 12-15, 2008, Portland, Oregon.
Posters
White, H., Willis, C., & Greenberg, J. (2012). “The HIVE impact: contributing to consistency via automatic indexing.” In iConference ’12: Proceedings of 2012 iConference, Toronto, ON, Canada February 07 – 10, 2012.
White, H. & Farmer, R. (2011) Pop goes the legal: Using Pop Culture Content in Legal Instruction. American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, July 23-6, 2011. Philadelphia, PA.
White, H. (2010) Organization as a means for information repository design: The convergence of knowledge organization and personal information management in scientific data. ASIS&T ’10 Annual Meeting, Oct. 25, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.
Greenberg, J., Lapp, H., Scherle, R, Vision, T., White, H., Carrier, S., & Schaeffer, P. (2009) The Dryad Repository: Designing a curation workflow. 5th International Digital Curation Conference, Dec 2009, London, UK.
Scherle, R., Bapat, A., Carrier, S., Greenberg, J., Lapp, H., Schaeffer, P., Vision, T., & White H. (2009) Dryad: a digital repository of data from publications in evolutionary biology and ecology. Evolution, June 2009, Moscow, Idaho.
White, H. (2009) The Dryad Data Repository. International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics, June 2009, London, UK.
White, H. (2008) Exploring evolutionary biologists’ use and perceptions of semantic metadata for data curation. DC-2008: Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, September 22-26, 2008, Berlin Germany.
Dube, J., Carrier, S., Greenberg, J., & White, H. (2008). Dryad: A data repository for evolutionary biology. In Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, v. 4(1). Available at http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/v4n1/dube/dube.html.
Scherle, R., Carrier, S., Greenberg, J., Lapp, H., Thompson, A., Vision, T., & White, H. (2008). Building support for a discipline-based data repository. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Open Repositories: http://pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/35/1/submission_177.pdf.
Workshops
White, H., Scherle, R., & Greenberg, J. (2010/2011) SKOS-2-HIVE. Morning session presenter, coordinator and creator for half day workshop presented at:
- Columbia University, May 20, 2011, New York, NY
- University of North Texas, April 29, 2011, Denton, TX
- George Washington University, March 11, 2011, Washington, D.C.
- ASIS&T ’10 Annual Meeting, October 22, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA
Leonard, E. & White, H. (2008). Managing with Integrity. Co-presenter for Pre-conference at North American Serials Interest Group 5-8 June, 2008, Phoenix Arizona.
Reviews and Columns
White, H. (Winter 2008- present) Publication and Research Columnist for the Technical Services Law Librarian (TSLL). http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/
White, H. (March 2009) What is This Thing Called “Library School”? : Reflections on the Current State of LIS Education. Technical Services Law Librarian v. 32(3).
White, H. (2008) Conference Report on Dublin Core 2008. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. v.47(2).
White, H. (December 2008) DC 2008: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference, a Conference Report. Technical Services Law Librarian v. 32 (2).
White, H. (2007) Book review of Lynching in the West, 1850–1935. Law Library Journal v. 99 (3).
White, H. (2005) Book Review of Innovative Redesign of Technical Services. Law Library Journal v. 97 (4).
Grants, Honors, and Awards
Beta Phi Mu’s Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2011 ($3000)
Carnegie Grant Recipient 2010 and 2011 ($400 total)
Council of Library and Information Resource (CLIR) Zipf Fellowship in Information Management Recipient 2009 ($10,000)
Kalp Fellowship Recipient 2009-2010
American Association of Law Libraries Research Instruction and Patron Services Special Interest Section (RIPS-SIS) Educational Grant Recipient 2009
American Association of Law Libraries Technical Services Special Interest Section (TS-SIS) Educational Grant Recipient 2008
Asheim Fellowship 2007-2008
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting Grant Recipient 2007
Arizona Association of Law Libraries AALL Annual Meeting Grant Recipient 2007
Beta Phi Mu—Alpha Chapter International Honor Society for Library and Information Science (member, 2005-present)
Persistence of Memory: Stewardship in Digital Assets Conference Scholarship Recipient 2006.
University of Georgia’s Freeman Research Award recipient for 2002 ($1000)
Professional Memberships and Service
American Association of Law Libraries (member)[2004-present]
Subcommittees:
Recruitment Committee (member) [2007-2009]
Technical Services Special Interest Section—TS-SIS (member) [2004-present]
- Secretary/Treasurer [2012-2014]
- Member of TS-SIS Education Committee [2007; 2010]
- Member of TS-SIS Cataloging and Classification Committee [2006-present]
- Member of TS-SIS Preservation Committee. [2006-present]
Research Instruction and Public Services Special Interest Section—RIPS-SIS (member) [2008-present]
- Member of the RIPS-SIS Program Committee [2008]
Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section—OBS-SIS (member) [2004- present]
- Chair of the Joint Research Grant Committee [2009-present]
- OBS-SIS Representative on the Technical Services Law Librarian Publication Board [2005-2007]
- Member of OBS-SIS Nominations Committee [2006-2007]
American Society of Information Science and Technology [2010-present]
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- Publications Committee (member) 2008
- Program Committee (member) 2010
Southeastern Association of Law Libraries (member) 2008-present
Arizona Law Libraries Association (member)[2004-2007]
- Program Committee (member) [2005-2007]
Director of Library Outreach for the Phoenix Comicon 2007
University Level Service
Arizona State University
- Senator for the Ross-Blakley Law Library –ASU Academic Senate [2005-2007]
- Board member ASU Residency Classification Board [2004-2007]
- Member of ASU’s Electronic Resource Management (ERM) Implementation group
- Member of ERM Codes Creation Group [2007]
- Chair of Public Access Sub-Committee [2007]