Maria Cristina Pattuelli
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School of Information and Library Science
CB#3360, 100 Manning Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3360
(919) 966-3589
pattm@email.unc.edu

EDUCATION

Doctoral Candidate in Information and Library Science at the School of Information & Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.
Advisor: Dr. Stephanie W. Haas.

Dottore in Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Cultural Heritage Studies)
(summa cum laude)
Facolta di Conservazione Dei Beni Culturali of the University of Bologna, Italy
Thesis: Metadata for the Description and Retrieval of Digital Resources on the World Wide Web.
Advisor: Prof. Dino Buzzetti

Dottore in Filosofia (Philosophy)
(summa cum laude)
Dipartimento di Filosofia of the University of Bologna, Italy

Diploma in Archives, Paleography and Diplomatics.
State Archives of Bologna, Italy


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Organization of Information and Knowledge Representation
  • Metadata and Ontologies for Digital Libraries
  • Semantic Web
  • Learning Objects
  • User Studies


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, Integration of Data and Interfaces to Enhance Human Understanding of Government Statistics: Towards the National Statistical Knowledge Network (GovStat Project), SILS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Principal Investigator: Dr. Gary Marchionini, Co-PI: Dr. Stephanie W. Haas, funded under NSF Grant #EIA 0131824. 2002- 2005.

Graduate Research Assistant, Metadata Generation for Web Resources Project , SILS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Principal Investigator: Dr. Jane Greenberg, funded under OCLC/NIEHS Grant and Microsoft/NIEHS Grant. http://ils.unc.edu/~janeg/mgr/. 2001- 2002.

Member, Interaction Design Lab, SILS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Director: Dr. Gary Marchionini.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Guest Lecturer, INLS 720 - Metadata Architectures and Applications. SILS. Fall 2006

Teaching Fellow, INLS 521 - Organization of Materials I (co-taught with Dr. Alenka Šauperl). SILS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Summer Session II 2006

Teaching Fellow, INLS 520 - Organization of Information. SILS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fall 2001-Spring 2002


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director, Luigi Dal Pane Library, Castel Bolognese, Italy, 1986-2000.

Archives Assistant , Current and Historical Archives of Lugo, Italy, 1985.

Cataloging Assistant , Solarolo Public Library, Solarolo, Italy, 1984.


AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Honorable Mention, Doctoral Students Research Poster Competition, Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual (ALISE) January 2007.

Lester Asheim Scholarship, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006-2007.

Smith Graduate Research Grant, University of North Carolina Graduate School, Fall 2006.

Graduate Student Travel Grant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 2004.

Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002-2003.


REFEREED ARTICLES AND PROCEEDINGS PAPERS

Pattuelli, M.C. (Forthcoming) Teachers’ perspectives and contextual dimensions to guide the design of N.C. history Learning Objects and Ontology. Information Processing and Management.

Pattuelli, M.C. (2007). Helping Teachers Find Digital History Resources: A User-Centered Approach to Designing a Domain Ontology for Learning Objects. Poster presented at the 2007 ALISE Annual Conference. Seattle, WA, January 15-18, 2007.
http://www.alise.org/conferences/2007_conference/docposterabstracts.html

Pattuelli, M.C. and Norberg, L.R. (2006). Identity matters: Constructing social identities through ontology-based metadata. In DC-2006: Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Manzanillo, Mexico, in October 2006. pp. 215-219.

Pattuelli, M.C. (2006). Context for content: Shaping learning objects and modeling a domain ontology from the teachers' perspective. In Blandford A. & Gow, J. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Workshop on Digital Libraries in the Context of Users' Broader Activities (DL-CUBA), pp. 23-27. JCDL 2006, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/events/dl-cuba2006/papers/Pattuelli.pdf

Hert , C.A. , Denn, S.O., Gillman, D.W., Oh, J.S., Pattuelli, M.C., Hernández, N. (Forthcoming). Investigating and modelling metadata usage to support information architecture development in the statistical knowledge network. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Oh, J.S., Denn, S.O., and Pattuelli, M.C. (2005). Four-perspective model for metadata requirements engineering. Presented at the 2005 ASIST Annual Meeting. Charlotte, NC, October28-November 2, 2005. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM05/abstracts/242.html

Pattuelli, M.C. and Zhang, J. (2004). An ontology-driven approach to accessing and understanding statistical information in the GovStat Project. Poster presented at the 2004 ASIST Annual Meeting. Providence, RI, November 13-18, 2004. (pdf)

Denn, S., Oh, J.S., and Pattuelli, M.C. (2004). Defining a metadata structure to support integration. Poster presented at the 2004 ASIST Annual Meeting. Providence, RI, November 13-18, 2004. (pdf)

Pattuelli, M.C., Norberg, L.R., and Smith, N. (2004) Using reusable learning objects and semantic tools to support concept-based teaching of the American South. Poster presented at the 2004 European Conference on Digital Libraries. Bath, UK, September 12-17, 2004. http://www.ecdl2004.org/posters-demos.html

Haas, S.W., Pattuelli, M.C., Brown, R.T. & Wilbur, J. (2003). Understanding statistical concepts and terms in context: The GovStat Ontology and the Statistical Interactive Glossary. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for information Science and Technology, pp. 193-199. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM03/abstracts/Mon-2-41.html

Pattuelli, M.C., Haas, S. W., Brown, R.T. & Wilbur, J. (2003). The GovStat Ontology. Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o2003. Digital Government Research Center, pp. 355-358. (pdf)

Brown, R.T., Wilbur, J., Haas, S.W. & Pattuelli, M.C. (2003). The GovStat Statistical Interactive Glossary (SIG). Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o2003. Digital Government Research Center, pp. 322-323. (pdf)

Greenberg, J., Pattuelli, M.C., Parsia, B. & Robertson, D.W. (2002). Author-generated Dublin Core Metadata for Web Resources: A Baseline Study in an Organization. JoDI: Journal of Digital Information 2(2). Also published in DC-2001. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan 2001 (pp. 38-46). http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Greenberg/


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Pattuelli, M.C. (2004). The GovStat Ontology: Technical Report. (pdf) http://ils.unc.edu/govstat/papers.html

Nelson, M., Argue, B., Efron, M., Denn, S. & Pattuelli, M.C. (2001). A Survey of Complex Object Technologies for Digital Libraries. NASA/TM-2001-211426, (77 pp.).
http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/2001/tm/NASA-2001-tm211426.pdf


PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

Pattuelli, M.C. (2005). International Library Education: Italian Library Education / Formazione Bibliotecaria Italiana. Invited talk at the 2005 Annual LAUNC-CH Conference. Chapel Hill, NC, March 14, 2005. (pdf)

Denn, S., Gillman, D., Hert , C.A. , Oh, J.S., and Pattuelli, M.C. (2004). Metadata for the SKN: Philosophy, Progress, and Future Directions. Presentation to GovStat Project Meeting, May 14, 2004. (pdf)

Pattuelli, M.C. (2003). Developing an ontology for the GovStat Project. Presentation given at the Doctoral Students Research Forum, SILS, UNC-Chapel Hill, March 28, 2003. (pdf)


WORKSHOPS AND INSTITUTES ATTENDED

Humanities Advanced Technology Institute (HATII). Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals (DCHP), UNC-Chapel Hill, May 16-21, 2004.

The First European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW-2003), 21st-26th July 2003, Cercedilla, Spain. The School was organized by the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of the Open University, UK and the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain.

First Italian Conference on Analytical Ontology, July 7th-9th 2003, Padua , Italy . The Conference was organized by the Department of Philosophy of the University of Padua, Italy.


SERVICE

Personnel Committee , SILS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 2006-

Membership Officer , European Student Chapter, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), 2006-

Student Representative, Barriers and Opportunities: Globalization in LIS Education, International Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 7-9 April, 2002.


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) 2005-present

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2003-present
SIGART Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence.

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 2002-present
Digital Libraries (DL) Special Interest Group
European Student Chapter

Associazione Dottorandi e Dottori di Ricerca Italiani (ADI) (Italian Doctoral Students and Researchers Association) 2002-present

Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB) (Italian Libraries Association) 1985-present

Last updated: 2-10-07