Laurence Favier is Professor of information and communication sciences at University of Lille3-Charles de Gaulle (France). She teaches library and information science. Her main research interests are: knowledge organization, history of documentation and e-government. In these fields she’s focused on: social aspects of information organization, use and practices (crowdsourcing, collaborative information filtering, social influence, research infrastructures and digital humanities, interoperability issues to facilitate communication of information between groups and disciplines) and the European tradition of document and documentation.
