Jian Qin researches and teaches in the areas of knowledge organization, information organization, and information technology applications in managing knowledge and information. She received a grant from IMLS to devleop an eScience librarianship curriculum and from NSF for the science data literacy project. Her recent research projects include a query log analysis of the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM), learning object vocabulary, and the Open Knowledge Exchange (OKE) ontology in the workforce domain. She was a visiting scholar at the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), where she developed the learning object vocabulary project. Jian Qin has published widely in national and international research journals. She was the co-editor for several special journal issues on knowledge discovery in databases and knowledge representation. Jian Qin holds a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MLIS from University of Western Ontario, and a BA from Wuhan University, China.