Dr Joanne Evans - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Joanne Evans is a lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, and co-ordinator of the Records Continuum Research Group, part of the Faculty’s Centre of Organisational and Social Informatics. She has many years of experience in archival systems development, with the technologies she has been involved in designing and developing deployed into a number of research projects, as well as being utilised in small archives settings. Joanne undertook her PhD at Monash as part of the Australian Research Council Linkage funded Clever Recordkeeping Metadata Project (2003-2006)  and received a Vice Chancellors Commendation for Doctorial Thesis Excellence for her thesis, Building Capacities for Sustainable Recordkeeping Metadata Interoperability. Her research interests lies in the multifarious roles metadata plays in creating, managing, and sustaining information and recordkeeping infrastructure and systems.

Keywords

Archival systems, Cultural informatics, Recordkeeping metadata, Recordkeeping metadata, archival systems

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2007

GRAD DIP OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Institution: RMIT

Year awarded: 2001

GRAD DIP INFORMATION SERVICES

Institution: RMIT

Year awarded: 1995

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONS)

Institution: ANU

Year awarded: 1988

Publications

Book Chapters

Smith, L., McCalman, J., Anderson, I., Smith, S., Evans, J., McCarthy, G., Beer, J., 2011, Fractional identities: The political arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians, in Indigenous Peoples and Demography: The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics, eds Per Axelsson and Peter Skold, Berghahn Books, New York NY USA, pp. 15-31.

Evans, J., McKemmish, S.M., Reed, B., 2010, Archival arrangement and description, in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition, eds Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack, Taylor & Francis, London UK, pp. 130-140.

McCarthy, G.J., Evans, J., 2010, Archival documentation, in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition, eds Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack, Taylor & Francis, London UK, pp. 141-146.

Journal Articles

Evans, J.E., Faulkhead, S., Manaszewicz, R., Thorpe, K., 2012, Bridging communities: Foundations for the interchange of ideas, Information Communication and Society [P], vol 15, issue 7, Routledge, Abingdon England, pp. 1055-1080.

McKemmish, S.M., Burstein, F.V., Manaszewicz, R., Fisher, J.L., Evans, J.E., 2012, Inclusive research design: Unravelling the double hermeneutic spiral, Information Communication and Society [P], vol 15, issue 7, Routledge, Abingdon England, pp. 1106-1135.

McCarthy, G.J., Evans, J.E., 2012, Principles for archival information services in the public domain, Archives & Manuscripts [P], vol 40, issue 1, Australian Society of Archivists, Dickson ACT Australia, pp. 54-67.

Oliver, G., Evans, J., Reed, B., Upward, F.H., 2010, Achieving the right balance: Recordkeeping informatics - Part 2, Informaa Quarterly [P], vol 26, issue 1, Records Management Association of Australia, St Helens Tas Australia, pp. 42-52.

Oliver, G., Evans, J., Reed, B., Upward, F.H., 2009, Achieving the right balance: Recordkeeping informatics - Part 1, Informaa Quarterly [P], vol 25, issue 1, Records Managment Association of Australia, St Helens Tas Australia, pp. 18-21.

Evans, J., McKemmish, S.M., Reed, B., 2009, Making metadata matter: Outcomes from the Clever Recordkeeping Metadata project, Archives & Manuscripts [P], vol 37, issue 1, Australian Society of Archivists, Virginia QLD Australia, pp. 28-56.

Chen, G., Warren, J., Evans, J., 2009, 'Qualities' not 'quality' - Text analysis methods to classify consumer health websites, Electronic Journal of Health Informatics [P], vol 4, issue 1, Health Informatics Society Australia & Australasian College of Health Informatics, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-7.

Smith, L., McCalman, J.S., Anderson, I., Smith, S., Evans, J., McCarthy, G.J., Beer, J., 2008, Fractional identities: The political arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians, Journal Of Interdisciplinary History [P], vol 38, issue 4, MIT Press, Cambridge MA USA, pp. 533-551.

Evans, J., Reed, B., McKemmish, S.M., 2008, Interoperable data sustainable frameworks for creating and managing recordkeeping metadata, Records Managment Journal, vol 18, issue 2, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley United Kingdom, pp. 115-129.

Evans, J., 2007, Evaluating the recordkeeping capabilities of metadata schemas, Archives and Manuscripts, vol 35, issue 2, Australian Society of Archivists Inc., Dickson ACT Australia, pp. 56-84.

McCarthy, G.J., Evans, J., 2007, Mapping the socio-technical complexity of Australian science: From archival authorities to networks of contextual information, Journal of Archival Organization, vol 5, issue 1&2, Routledge, London UK, pp. 149-175.

Evans, J., McKemmish, S.M., Bhoday, K., 2005, Create once, use many times: the clever use of recordkeeping metadata for multiple archival purposes, Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information, vol 5, issue 1, Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 17-42.

Gilliland-Swetland, A., Rouche, N., Lindberg, L., Evans, J., 2005, Towards a 21st century metadata infrastructure supporting the creation, preservation and use of trustworthy records: developing the InterPARES 2 metadata schema registry, Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information, vol 5, issue 1, Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 43-78.

Evans, J., Rouche, N., 2004, Utilizing systems development methods in archival systems research: building a metadata schema registry, Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information, vol 4, issue 3-4, Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 315-334.

Conference Proceedings

Evans, J., Manaszewicz, R., Xie, J., 2009, The role of domain expertise in smart, user-sensitive, health information portals, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, 05 January 2009 to 08 January 2009, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 1-10.

Chen, G., Warren, J., Evans, J., 2008, Automatically generated consumer health metadata using semantic spaces, Proceedings of the Australasian Workshop on Health Data and Knowledge Management (HDKM 2008), 22 January 2008 to 25 January 2008, Australian Computer Society Inc., Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 9-15.

Xie, J., Burstein, F., Evans, J., 2008, Intelligent support for resource quality evaluation and description in Health Information Portals, Proceedings of Australia's Health Informatics Conference, 31 August 2008 to 02 September 2008, Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), Brunswick East Vic Australia, pp. 1-6.

Evans, J., Lindberg, L., 2004, Describing and analyzing the recordkeeping capabilities of metadata sets, DC-2004: Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 11 October 2004 to 14 October 2004, Shanghai Scientific & Technological Literature Publishing House, Shanghai CHINA, pp. 75-80.

Teaching Commitment

Dr Joanne Evans is the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT2074 - Technology,information and organisations
• FIT3072 - Managing business records
• FIT5107 - Managing business records

Joanne teaches the following units;

• FIT2074 - Technology,information and organisations
• FIT3121 - Archival systems
• FIT3124 - Professional practice
• FIT3072 - Managing business records
• FIT5087 - Archival systems
• FIT5104 - Professional practice
• FIT5107 - Managing business records

 

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Culture in the continuum: Youtube, small stories and memory making.

Supervisors:

Mckemmish, S (Main), Evans, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The storyline project: determining a therapeutic use for the personal archive in aged care and dementia..

Supervisors:

Mckemmish, S (Main), Evans, J (Associate), Moss, C (Associate).