Educational Background

Ph.D. 1992. School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
M.A. 1984, B.A. 1982 Wuhan University , China

Major Research Interests

Knowledge organization and representation; metadata architectures and applications; thesaurus, taxonomy, ontology, and other knowledge organization systems (KOS); database quality control; indexing systems and software, application of expert systems; multilingual information processing.

Current courses:

• LIS 60649 Indexing and Abstracting (information)
• LIS 60648 Electronic Publishing (web-based course) (information)
• LIS 61095 Digital Image Processing and Collection Management (information)
• IAKM 60002/LIS 61095 Knowledge Organization Systems: Taxonomy, Thesaurus, Ontology (IAKM II) (information)
• LIS 61095 Metadata Architectures and Implementations (information)

Workshops Developed and Taught

Current Workshops:

• Metadata for Digital Collections (outline and lecture notes)
• Digital Imaging I: Image Processing (information)
• Knowledge Organization Systems

Professional Affiliations and Active Working Groups

• American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
  • Standards Committee
  • Classification Research (CR)
  • International Information Issues (III)
  • NORASIS
• NKOS group (Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services)
• IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
  • Classification and Indexing Section
  • Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR)
  • Digital Library Guidelines Working Group
• International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
• ISO 25964 Thesauri and Interoperability with Other Vocabularies
• The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
  • DCMI-NKOS Task Group