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.
Metadata
Functional and Architectural Requirements for Metadata (with Alex Ball and Jane Greenberg) (2013)
The semantic and syntactic model of metadata (with Javier Calzada Prado), iSchool Faculty Scholarship (2006)
As more information becomes “born digital”, metadata creation is increasingly becoming part of the information...
Representation and Organization of Information in the Web Space: From MARC to XML, iSchool Faculty Scholarship (2000)
Representing and organizing information in libraries has a long tradition of using rules and standards....
Ontology
Adaptive modeling of workforce domain knowledge (with Peter Creticos and Wen-Yuan Hsiao), iSchool Faculty Scholarship (2006)
Workforce development is a multidisciplinary domain in which policy, laws and regulations, social services, training...
Building interoperable vocabulary and structures for learning objects (with Naybell Hernández), iSchool Faculty Scholarship (2006)
The structural, functional, and production views on learning objects influence metadata structure and vocabulary. We...
Converting a controlled vocabulary into an ontology: the case of GEM (with Stephen Paling), iSchool Faculty Scholarship (2001)
The prevalance of digital information raised issues regarding the suitability of conventional library tools for...
eScience librarianship
Scientific data literacy
Lessons learned from a two-year experience in science data literacy education (with John D'Ignazio), International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries, 31st Annual Conference (2010)
In spring 2008 and 2009, we offered a course “Scientific Data Management” to undergraduate and...