Education

• Ph.D., University of Michigan
• MSI, University of Michigan
• BA, University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise

• Digital Curation
• Digital Preservation
• Data Sharing & Reuse

Courses Taught

• INSC 562: Digital Curation
• DATA 301: Data Stewardship & Ethics

Professional Memberships

• ASIST
• SAA

Select Publications

• Frank, R. D., & Rothfritz, L. (2022). Designated Community: Uncertainty and Risk. Journal of Documentation. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2022-0161  Available Open Access: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_infosciepubs/467/
• Frank, R. D. (2022). Risk in Trustworthy Digital Repository Audit and Certification. Archival Science, 22(1), 43-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-021-09366-z Available Open Access: https://rdcu.be/cyLa6
• Yakel, E., Frank, R. D., Suzuka, K., & Smith, J. (2021). Visibilities and Invisibilities in Data Reuse: Video Records of Practice in Education. Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211005955 Available Open Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/167728
• Frank, R. D. (2020). The Social Construction of Risk in Digital Preservation. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 71: 474-484. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24247 Available Open Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/149147
• Faniel, I., Frank, R. & Yakel, E. (2019), Context from the Data Reuser’s Point of View, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 75 No. 6, pp. 1274-1297. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2018-0133 Available Open Access: https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2019/context-from-data-reuser-point-of-view.html