McRobbie, M. A., B. C. Wheeler, B. Plale, and C. A. Stewart, Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute Report to the Lilly Endowment, Inc. 48 Month Program Report Jun 1 - Nov 30, 2012 : Indiana University, Dec 2012.

Chen, M., and B. Plale, From Metadata to Ontology Representation: A Case of Converting Severe Weather Forecast Metadata to an Ontology, The 75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2012)., http://www.asis.org/asist2012/program.html, Baltimore, MD, Oct 2012, https://www.asis.org/asist2012/proceedings/Submissions/286.pdf.

Plale, B., E. Ostrom, T. Evans, and S. Jensen, In-Situ Archiving of Digital Scientific Data Project Outcomes Report , Bloomington, Indiana University, Nov 2012.

Jensen, S., B. Plale, X. Liu, M. Chen, D. Leake, and J. England, "Generalized Representation and Mapping for Social-Ecological Data: Freeing Data from the Databases" 8th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Chicago, IL, Oct 2012.

Jensen, S., M. Chen, X. Liu, B. Plale, and D. Leake, Mining Classifications from Social-Ecological Databases, 75th Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2012), Baltimore, MD, Oct 2012.

Plale, B., Metadata and Provenance: Dimensions of Use in Science, Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) 22 Biodiversity in (Southeast) Asia Workshop: Defining Cyberinfrastructure to Support the Study of Ultramafic Ecosystems, http://pragma22.pragma-grid.net/dct/page/70005, Melbourne, Australia, Apr 2012, http://d2i.indiana.edu/sites/default/files/plale_provenance_pragma_2012.pdf.