User experience to enhance DataONE community

Rachel Volentine received a Masters in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee in 2010. She has been the user-experience lab manager since August 2013. She is responsible for scheduling, assisting, conducting, and training researchers in user-experience lab activities and research.

Amy Forrester is the DataONE Member Repository Coordinator and located at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her main responsibility is relationship management between DataONE Cyberinfrastructure and both contributing and potential Member Repositories.

Suzie Allard is Chancellor’s Professor & Board of Visitors' Professor at The University of Tennessee in the School of Information Sciences. She is also Associate Dean for Research for the College of Communication and Information and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies. Allard’s research focuses on how scientists and engineers use and communicate information, particularly in the virtual environment and across distributed work teams. Current projects center on science data, interdisciplinary scientific work teams (particularly in terms of data sharing), scientific cyberinfrastructure, and science disinformation. Allard is a member of the Board of Directors for the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. She is PI or Co-PI on grants funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Libraries Services, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, IEEE and others. Allard has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, spoken at venues around the world and published several book chapters. Allard received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from California State University at Northridge, an MS in library and information sciences, and a PhD in communication from the University of Kentucky. Before being in academe, Allard was the vice president of Research Frontiers Corporation which provided creative consultation services to the entertainment industry.