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Education

2009 PhD, University of Western Ontario, London, ON

PhD in Library and Information Science, Faculty of Information and Media Studies

Thesis Title: Information Organisation Practices on the Web: Tagging and the Social Organisation of Information

Supervisor: D. Grant Campbell

2003 MLIS, University of Western Ontario, London, ON

Masters of Library and Information Science from the Faculty of Information and Media Studies

1999 BSc, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

Bachelor of Science with concentration in Computer Science (Honours Computer Science Co-op programme) from the School of Information Technology and Engineering

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Research

Publications [R = refereed, I = Invited]

Journal Articles

[R] Park, Hyoungjoo and Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2019. Library Linked Data Models: Library Data in the Semantic Web. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 57(5), 261-277. doi: 10.1080/01639374.2019.1641171

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I.; Beak, Jihee, and Choi, Inkyung. 2017. Motivations and Intentions of Flickr Users in Enriching Flickr Records for Library of Congress Photos. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi: 10.1002/asi.23869

[R] Joo, Soohyung and Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2015. Exploring the structure of library and information science Web space based on multivariate analysis of social tags. Information Research 20(4), paper 696.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E. I.; Beak, Jihee, and Graf, Ann M. 2015. Tagging of Banned and Challenged Books. Knowledge Organization 42(5): 276-283.

[R] Martinez-Avila, Daniel and Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2014. Implications of the Adoption of BISAC for Classifying Library Collections. Knowledge Organization 41(5): 377-392.

[R] Lu, Kun and Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2014. Understanding the retrieval effectiveness of collaborative tags and author keywords in different retrieval environments: An experimental study on medical collections. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 65: 483-500. doi: 10.1002/asi.22985

[R] Martinez-Avila, Daniel; Kipp, Margaret E. I. and Olson, Hope A. 2012. DDC or BISAC: The Changing Balance between Corporations and Public Institutions. Knowledge Organization 39(5): 309-319.

[R] Martinez-Avila, Daniel; Olson, Hope A. and Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2012. New Roles and Global Agents in Information Organization in Spanish Libraries. Knowledge Organization 39(2): 125-135.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2011. Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing. Knowledge Organization 38(3): 245-261.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2011. User, Author and Professional Indexing in Context: An Exploration of Tagging Practices on CiteULike. Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science 35(1): 17-48.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Campbell, D. Grant. 2010. Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? Knowledge Organization 37(4): 239-255.

[I] Tonkin, Emma; Corrado, Edward M.; Moulaison, Heather Lea; Kipp, Margaret E.I.; Pfeiffer, Heather D. and Zhang, Qiping. 2008. Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks. Ariadne 54.

[R] Vaughan, Liwen; Kipp, Margaret E.I., and Gao, Yijun. 2007. Are Co-linked Business Websites Really Related? A Content Analysis. Online Information Review 31(4): 440-450.

[R] Vaughan, Liwen; Kipp, Margaret E.I., and Gao, Yijun. 2007. Why are Websites Co-linked?: The Case of Canadian Universities. Scientometrics 72(1): 81-92.

[R] Vaughan, Liwen; Gao, Yijun, and Kipp, Margaret. 2006. Why are Hyperlinks to Business Websites Created? A Content Analysis. Scientometrics 67(2): 291-300.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2005. Complementary or Discrete Contexts in Online Indexing: A Comparison of User, Creator, and Intermediary Keywords. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 29(4): 419-436. [Student to CAIS Award 2006]

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2005. Software and Seeds: Open Source Methods. First Monday 10(9).

[R] McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.); French, Peggy K.; Goodall, George R.; Kipp, Margaret; Paquette, Darian Lajoie and Pecoskie, Jen. 2004. Covered Beverages Now Allowed: Public Libraries and Book Superstores. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 28(3): 39-51.

Conference Papers

Park, Hyoungjoo and Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2018. Library linked data models: Multinational library data in the semantic web. ASIST Workshop: Big Metadata Analytics. 14 November, 2018. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Park, Hyoungjoo, and Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2014. Evaluation of mappings from MARC to linked data. 25th Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, ASIST, Seattle, November 1, 2014.

[R] Zhang, Lei; Kipp, Margaret E. I. and Lee, Hur-Li. 2013. Genre Tag ... Tag Genre. North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO), Milwaukee, June 13-14, 2013.

[R] Martínez-Ávila, Daniel, Kipp, Margaret, and Olson, Hope. 2013. Uso de BISAC como sistema de organización del conocimiento en el catálogo. In Dodebei, Vera and Guimarães, José Augusto Chaves, eds., Complexidade e organização do conhecimento: desafios de nosso século. Rio de Janeiro; Marília: ISKO-Brasil; FUNDEPE, pp. 195-9.

[R] Martinez-Ãvila, Daniel; Hope A. Olson and Margaret E. I. Kipp. 2011. Nuevos roles y agentes globales en la organizacion de la informacion en bibliotecas. Congresso X Espanol de ISKO 2011, Ferrol, Spain, June 30-July 1, 2011.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2011. Controlled vocabularies and tags: An analysis of research methods. North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO), Toronto, June 15-16, 2011.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? International Society for Knowledge Organisation Conference, Montreal, QC, August 5-8, 2008.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. @toread and Cool: Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging. Proceedings of the 36th conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Vancouver, BC, June 5-7, 2008.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Tagging for Health Information Organization and Retrieval. North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO), Toronto, June 14-15, 2007.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Tagging Practices on Research Oriented Social Bookmarking Sites. Proceedings of the 35th conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, QC, May 10-12, 2007.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. @toread and Cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion. Proceedings of the 8th Information Architecture Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22-26, 2007.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Campbell, D. Grant. 2006. Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems: An Examination of Tagging Practices. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, November 3-8, 2006.

Vaughan, Liwen; Margaret E.I. Kipp, and Yijun Gao. 2006. Why are Websites Co-linked? The Case of Canadian Universities. Proceedings of the 34th conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Toronto, June 1-3, 2006.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2006. Exploring the context of user, creator and intermediary tagging. Proceedings of the 7th Information Architecture Summit, Vancouver, March 23-27, 2006.

Vaughan, Liwen; Gao, Yijun and Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2005. Why are Hyperlinks to Business Websites Created? A Content Analysis. Proceedings of the 33rd conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, London, June 2-4, 2005.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2004. Cycles of Struggle in Biotechnology: Open Source Methods. Proceedings of the 32nd conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Winnipeg, June 3-5, 2004.

Posters and Short Papers [Short papers and conference abstracts may be refereed]

Buchel, Olha and Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2018. Investigation of Library Communities on Flickr. ICCS2018: The Ninth International Conference on Complex Systems. July 22-27, Cambridge, MA.

Buchel, Olha; Neal, Diane; Kipp, Margaret; Beak, Jihee and Choi, Inkyung. 2013. Poster: Analyzing spatial, social, and semantic dimensions of user interactions with collections on Flickr. 2013 Social Media & Society Conference, September 14-15, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Choi, Inkyung; Joo, Soohyung and Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2013. Short Paper: Classification of Web Resources using User Generated Terms. IFLA WLIC 2013, August 17-23, Singapore.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E. I.; Buchel, Olha; Choi, Inkyung; Beak, Jihee and Rasmussen, Diane. 2013. Short Paper: User Motivations for Contributing Tags and Local Knowledge to the Library of Commons Flickr Collection. Canadian Association for Information Science, Victoria, BC, June 6-8, 2013.

Choi, Inkyung; Joo, Soohyung and Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2013. Poster: Web Resource Clustering Based on Social Tag Information: A Pilot Study. 5th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, 4 - 7 June 2013, Rome, Italy.

Kipp, Margaret E. I.; Buchel, Ohla; Neal, Diane Rasmussen; Beak, Jihee and Choi, Inkyung. 2012. Poster: Exploring Digital Information Using Tags and Local Knowledge. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Baltimore, Maryland, 2012.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Beak, Jihee. 2012. Poster: Examining Studies Comparing Tags and Controlled Vocabularies. Canadian Association for Information Science, Waterloo, Ontario, May 31-June 2, 2012.

Joo, Soohyung and Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2011. Poster: Mining Social Tags to Explore the Semantic Web of Health Information Resources. SIG-MET Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2011. Poster: Controlled vocabularies and tags: An analysis of research methods and goals. Proceedings of the 39th conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Fredericton, NB, June 2-4, 2011.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Joo, Soohyung. 2010. Poster: Application of Structural Equation Modelling in Exploring Tag Patterns: A Pilot Study. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. [Best Poster Award ASIST 2010]

Lu, Kun and Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. Poster: Can Collaborative Tagging Improve Retrieval Effectiveness? -- An Experimental Study. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. Poster: Convergence and divergence in tagging systems: An examination of tagging practices over a four year period. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

[R] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. Short Paper: Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems: An Examination of Tagging Practices Over a Four Year Period. Proceedings of the 38th Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, QC, June 5-7, 2010.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Joo, Soohyung. 2010. Poster: Co-occurrence Analysis of Delicious.com Tag Data Using Social Network Analysis. 1st Annual SLIS-SOIS Research Forum, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, April 30, 2010.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2009. Poster: Exploring Measures of Inter-Tagger Consistency. SIG-CR Workshop Poster, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2009. Poster: Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. Poster: Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Columbus, Ohio, 2008..

[I] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. Short Paper: Tagging for Health Information Organization and Retrieval. Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries 4(1).

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Poster: Tagging and Findability: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 21-24, 2007.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Poster: Tagging for Health Information Organisation and Retrieval. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Vancouver, BC, June 18-23.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2006. Poster: @toread and Cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion. SIG-CR Workshop Poster, ASIST Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 4, 2006.

Panels

Aytac, Selenay; Kipp, Margaret E.I.; Neal, Diane Rasmussen; Rubin, Victoria L.; Pattuelli, Cristina and Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid. 2011. Panel: Emerging Trends in Knowledge Organization and Information Organization Course Curriculum. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011.

Kipp, Margaret E. I.; Peters, Isabella; Heck, Tamara; Gwizda, Jacek; Lu, Kun; Neal, Diane Rasumussen and Spiteri, Louise. 2011. Panel: Social Tagging and Folksonomies: Indexing, Retrieving and Beyond? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011.

Fewell, Rachel; Melissa Rice; Hope Olson; Margaret Kipp; Daniel Martinez Ãvila. 2010. Panel: Dewey or Don't We?: BISAC v. Dewey. Wisconsin Library Association Conference, Wisconsin Dells, WI, November 2-5, 2010.

Kipp, Margaret; Smiraglia, Richard; Jeong, Wooseob; Wolfram, Dietmar and Olson, Hope. 2009. Panel: The Power to Tag: Research on the Nature of Tags, Taggers and Ragtag Tagging. Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, December 3, 2009.

Pfeiffer, Heather D.; Tonkin, Emma; Millen, David R.; Lindner, Mark R.; Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. Panel: Tagging As A Communication Device: The Impact of Communities on Transforming Tag Information. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Columbus, Ohio, 2008.

[I] Musolff, Meghan; Lauder, Adam; Kwan, Billy; Allen, Laurie; and Kipp, Margaret. Panel: Free Association: Social Tagging in Online Collections. Visual Resources Association Conference 2008, San Diego, CA, March 12-16, 2008.

Corrado, Edward M.; Kipp, Margaret E. I.; Zhang, Qiping; Moulaison, Heather Lea; Tonkin, Emma; Pfeiffer, Heather D. Panel: Tagging and Social Networks: The Impact of Communities on User Centered Tagging. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 21-24, 2007. (Panel co-sponsored by SIG-TAG, SIG-KM and SIG-CR)

Presentations and Invited Talks

Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2013. Invited Talk: Linked Data and the Bibliographic Record. Talk given at the School of Information Studies/Ecole des sciences de l'information, University of Ottawa, August 2013.

[I] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2012. Presentation: Search and Retrieval with Tags. Workshop on Folksonomy, Information Organization, Information Access, and Information Retrieval, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, February 24, 2012.

[I] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2012. Presentation: User, Author and Professional Indexing in Context. Workshop on Folksonomy, Information Organization, Information Access, and Information Retrieval, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, February 24, 2012.

[I] Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2012. Presentation: Tags, Author Keywords and Controlled Vocabularies in Indexing and Retrieval. Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program Conference (TELDAP), Taipei, Taiwan, February 21-24, 2012.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2011. Presentation: Teaching Linked Data and the Semantic Web to MLIS Students. code4lib Midwest, Chicago, IL, USA, July 28-29, 2011.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Lu, Kun. 2011. Presentation: Retrieval Effectiveness of Tags and Author Keywords. 2nd Annual SLIS-SOIS Research Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, April 29, 2011.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Joo, Soohyung. 2011. Presentation: Semantic Structure of Consumer Health Information Web Resources Tagged on Delicious.com. 2nd Annual SLIS-SOIS Research Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, April 29, 2011.

Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2011. Invited Talk: Tagging and Subject Analysis: User, Author and Indexer Term Use. Talk given at the Faculty of Media and Information Studies, University of Western Ontario, January 2011.

Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2011. Invited Talk: Examining the Dynamic Relationship Between Tags and Documents = Une analyse des relations dynamiques entre les documents et les etiquettes sociales. Talk given at the School of Information Studies/Ecole des sciences de l'information, University of Ottawa, January 2011.

Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2010. Invited Talk: Tagging 6 Years Later: Examining the Dynamic Relationship Between Tags and Documents. Talk given at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, September 2010.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Joo, Soohyung. 2010. Presentation: The Structure of Tag Space in Library and Information Science. 1st Annual SLIS-SOIS Research Forum, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, April 30, 2010.

Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2010. Invited Talk: Tagging and Subject Analysis. Talk given at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, April 2010.

Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2010. Invited Talk: Tagging and Subject Analysis. Talk given at the School of Information Science/Ecole des sciences de l'information, University of Ottawa, January 2010.

Kipp, Margaret E. I. 2008. Invited Talk: Tagging and the Social Organisation of Information. Talk given at the Palmer School of Information Science, Long Island University, September 2008.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2006. Presentation: Patterns in Tagging: An Analysis of Collaborative Classification Practices in Social Bookmarking Tools. Connections 2006, Syracuse, NY, May 20-21, 2006.

Teaching

Information technology is an important companion to information science. Librarians and information science students need a clear grounding in technological subjects, as well as more traditional library and information science subjects. Information organisation is an important component of information technology design and information retrieval.

Teaching Experience

2015-Current
Associate Professor

2009-2015
Assistant Professor

School of Information Studies

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Courses: Organization of Information (9 face to face, 10 online); Metadata (7 face to face, 1 online); Introduction to Data Science (5 online); Information Architecture (3 online); Data Analysis for Data Science (2 online); Database Management Systems for Information Professionals (2 online); Linked Data in Libraries (2 face to face, 1 online)

2007-2009
Instructor (Tenure Track)

Palmer School of Library and Information Science

Long Island University

Courses: Introduction to Knowledge Organization (4 face to face, 2 online, 1 hybrid); Information Sources and Services (2 face to face); Passive Website Architecture and Design (1 face to face)

2006
Instructor

Faculty of Information and Media Studies

University of Western Ontario

Courses: Programming for Library and Information Science Applications (1 face to face); Database Management Systems (1 face to face)

Courses

2019 (Fall), 2019 (Spring), 2018 (Fall), 2018 (Spring), 2017 (Spring), 2016 (Spring)
Instructor: Introduction to Data Science (Undergrad/Graduate), School of Information Studies, UWM

Introduces basic concepts, background, theoretical, practical and technological aspects of data science. The final project is a report on the results of data analysed using data science techniques.

2019 (Fall), 2018 (Fall)
Instructor: Database Management Systems for Information Professionals (Graduate), School of Information Studies, UWM

Introduces basic concepts, background, theoretical, practical and technological aspects of databases including NoSQL databases. The final project is a database based on a relational data model or a NoSQL data model.

2019 (Fall), 2016 (Fall), 2015 (Fall), 2014 (Fall), 2012 (Fall), 2011 (Fall), 2010 (Fall), 2009 (Fall)
Instructor: Metadata (Graduate), School of Information Studies, UWM

Principles and application of metadata for networked information resource organization, representation, retrieval, and interoperability using a variety of schemes; focus on cultural heritage digital repositories. The final project is a toy library with a schema developed over the course of the term.

2019 (Summer), 2018 (Spring), 2017 (Spring)
Instructor: Information Architecture (Graduate), School of Information Studies, UWM

Introduction to information architecture and user experience design, focusing on designing user-centred organization, labelling, navigation, search, metadata, and knowledge organization systems for websites. The final project is an information architecture design report for a business or organisation.

2019 (Spring), 2018 (Spring)
Instructor: Data Analysis for Data Science (Undergrad/Graduate), School of Information Studies, UWM

Introduces basic concepts, background, theoretical, practical and technological aspects of data science. The final project is a report on the results of data analysed using data science techniques.

2016 (Fall), 2016 (Spring), 2015 (Fall), 2015 (Spring - 2 sessions), 2014 (Fall), 2014 (Spring - 2 sessions), 2013 (Fall - 2 sessions), 2013 (Spring), 2012 (Fall), 2012 (Spring), 2011 (Fall), 2011 (Spring), 2010 (Fall), 2010 (Spring - 2 sessions), 2009 (Fall)
Instructor: Organization of Information (Undergrad/Graduate), School of Information Studies, UWM

Introduction to basic concepts in the theoretical, practical, and technological aspects of information organization. The final project is a group digital library on a chosen topic.

2013 (Spring), 2012 (Spring), 2011 (Spring)
Instructor: Linked Data, Mashups, the Semantic Web, and Web 2.0 (Graduate), School of Information Studies, UWM

The Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Library Mashups and their impact on libraries. The final project is a mashup which could be used in a library.

2009 (Summer), 2009 (Spring - 3 sessions), 2008 (Fall), 2008 (Spring - 2 sessions), 2007 (Fall)
Instructor: Introduction to Knowledge Organization (Graduate), Palmer School of Library and Information Science, LIU

Introduction to basic principles of bibliographic control and the organisation of information including the design and function of catalogues, indexes, bibliographies, browsers and library standards such as AACR2R, MARC, Dublin Core, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress Classification.

2008 (Fall), 2007 (Fall)
Instructor: Information Sources and Services (Graduate), Palmer School of Library and Information Science, LIU

Introduction to the philosophy, process and techniques of information services including an overview of important sources, formats and methods for information access and delivery. Students will learn methods for the evaluation of sources and services and the basics of information seeking behaviour.

2008 (Spring)
Instructor: Passive Website Architecture and Design (Graduate), Palmer School of Library and Information Science, LIU

Introduction to designing, building and maintaining Web sites using XHTML and CSS. Students will be introduced to the information architecture and Web usability literature to learn the concepts and measures that may be applied in the evaluation of Web sites.

2006 (Fall)
Instructor: Database Management Systems (Graduate), Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO

Introduction to database management systems for library and information science students. Students were taught theoretical concepts related to database design including Entity-Relationship modelling, normalisation, SQL, and client/server architecture (using ODBC). Database management systems covered included Microsoft Access and MySQL. The final project was a web based interface to a database designed earlier in the course.

2006 (Summer)
Instructor: Programming for Library and Information Science Applications (Graduate), Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO

Introduction to computer programming for library and information science students, covering the basic elements of computer programming, project design and planning using the python programming language. Included special units on Internet Programming, Databases and ODBC, Graphics and CGI. The final project consisted of designing and writing a library related software application.

2003 (Fall)
Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Information Retrieval (Undergraduate), Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO

This course is an introduction to information retrieval for undergraduates. Major duties included marking and running a tutorial section.

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Work Experience: Research

2004 (Fall)-2006 (Winter), 2007 (Winter)-2007 (Summer)
Research Assistant for Dr. D. Grant Campbell, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO

Major duties included setting up a Linux server running Fedora Core for use as a research machine to test and analyse semantic web tools and social classification tools. Ongoing duties included performing upgrades; installing and configuring new software.

2004 (Summer), 2005 (Summer), 2007 (Winter)
Research Assistant for Dr. Liwen Vaughan, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO

Major duties included the collection of hyperlink and co-link data for various data sets. Additional duties included statistical analysis of data, writing programmes for analysis and data collection, proofing and co-authoring papers.

2004 (Winter)-2004 (Summer)
Research Assistant for Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Faculty of Information and Media Studies/Faculty of Law, UWO

Major duties included collection of research materials for a large newspaper study of privacy law in Canada, co-ordination of work by other team members and development of a research and content analysis framework for the study.

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Work Experience: Industry

Skills Summary

Over 5 years experience as a programmer/analyst working in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Experience with Oracle databasing using Java, PL/SQL, C, Perl and Unix shell scripts in a Unix/Windows environment. Experience with Python, R, MySQL, NoSQL, XML/XSLT, RDF, and Semantic Web technologies. Experience using HTML/XML, CSS, CGI, Java applets and JavaScript to design websites. Experience with data science techniques for analysing large data sets. Experience with computer maintenance (installation of hardware and networking). Experience administering Linux in a server and desktop environment.

Bilingual (English and French), Russian (Elementary), Chinese (Speaking/Listening: Elementary, Reading: Intermediate/HSK4)

2003 (January-April)
National Research Council Canada, LS-2
Document Delivery Troubleshooter

Responsible for document delivery troubleshooting in a highly automated document delivery system with thousands of daily deliveries using Ariel, Prospero, and other document delivery systems.

Provided bilingual internal/external client support and user training.

Beta testing of Secure Document Delivery system.

1997 (May-August), 1998 (January)-2001 (December)
Autodesk Canada
Programmer/Analyst

Projects in the Autodesk GIS Design Server (formerly VISION*) suite of geographic database applications using Java, C, PL/SQL, Perl and UNIX shell scripts in the creation and maintenance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based on Oracle running on Solaris/AIX/HPUX/Windows.

Major projects included (reverse chronological order):

• Internationalisation of Autodesk GIS Design Server administrative interface using a double byte test language (Japanese).
• Designed and coded the initial user interface for Autodesk GIS Design Server (a GIS database administration product) in Java. User interface team leader.
• Implementation of VISION* DX interface, a database conversion tool (team member).
• Evaluated Oracle Spatial (Oracle Spatial Data Option) for internal use. Prepared documentation for internal users.
• Implementation of VISION* Long Transaction functionality in PL/SQL, a versioning system for Oracle databases (team member). Wrote documentation for the final product.
• Benchmarking of code including written documentation on findings.
• Developed a demo of Long Transaction functionality in PL/SQL for a user conference (team member).
• Research and development activities with the Oracle 8 beta. Prepared documentation for internal users.

1996 (September-December)
Newbridge Networks Corporation
Software Engineer

Duties included developing report generators using Tcl/Tk and running network tests.

1995 (May-August), 1996 (January-April)
Canada Post Corporation, CS-1
Programmer/Analyst

Designed and developed an automated computer system for comparison of address information from complementary sources using C, ODBC, SQL, and batch files. Maintained and upgraded software throughout work terms and trained end users. Wrote conversion programmes as needed for GIS data.

1994 (May-August)
Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, Library and Archives Canada

Edited computerised versions of microfiche catalogues using Inmagic and WordPerfect.

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Academic and Professional Activities

Grants

School of Information Studies' Revitalization of Online Programs, UWM Seed Funding for New & Refreshed Online Programs - 2012-13, 2012, Collaborators: Joyce Latham, Steve Miller, Shana Ponelis, Iris Xie, $40 000

The Value of Kinds of Metadata in Enhancing Search and Browsing, SAGO (Small Award Grant Opportunity) School of Information Studies UWM, 2010, Collaborator: Diane Rasmussen Neal, $1960

Awards and Honours

SAC (Student Accessibility Center) Excellence Award for Teaching, UWM, 2012

Best Poster Award ASIST 2010 (with Soohyung Joo)

Student to CAIS Award (best student paper), 2006, $1000

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2005-2008, $15 000 per annum

Thesis Committees

Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee, Hyoungjoo Park, Library and Information Science [Defended 2018-11-27]

Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee, Inkyung Choi, Library and Information Science [Defended 2018-12-06]

Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee, Edward Benoit III, Library and Information Science [Defended 2014-07-24]

Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee, Jihee Beak, Library and Information Science [Defended 2014-04-29]

Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee, Kun Lu, Library and Information Science [Defended 2012-06-11]

Academic Activities

KOrg Research Group Coordinator, UWM (2019-)

IO Concentration Coordinator, UWM (2016-)

Academic Planning and Budget Committee, UWM (2019-) [co-chair]

MSIST Curriculum Committee, UWM (2019-) [chair]

Doctoral Program Committee, UWM (2018-)

MSIST Curriculum Committee, UWM (2018, 2019)

Graduate Admissions Committee, UWM (2016-2017)

MSIST Program Ad Hoc Committee/Curriculum Committee, UWM (2015-2017) [chair]

Academic Planning and Budget Committee, UWM (2015-2017)

MLIS Standards - Curriculum Committee, UWM (2015-2017)

MSIST Program Ad Hoc Committee, UWM (2014-2015)

Faculty Senate, UWM (2013-2015)

Research Committee, UWM (2013-2014)

Diversity and Equity Committee, UWM (2012-2013) [chair]

Doctoral Program Committee, UWM (2011, 2011-2012) [chair]

MLIS Graduate School Review Committee, UWM (2010-2011)

Research Rewards System Adhoc Committee, UWM (2010)

MLIS Standards - Students Committee, UWM (2009-2010)

Palmer Outcomes Assessment Committee, LIU (2007-2009)

Palmer IT Committee, LIU (2007-2009)

Moodle Pilot Project, LIU (2007-2009)

LIS Doctoral Programme Committee, UWO (2005-2007)

Professional Activities

Professional Service

North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - ISKO Chapter (NASKO) Programme Committee 2019

North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - ISKO Chapter (NASKO) Programme Committee 2017

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Reviewer 2014

Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Programme Committee 2014

Classification Research Special Interest Group - ASIST (SIG-CR) Reviewer 2013

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Reviewer 2013

Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Programme Committee 2013

Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Programme Committee 2012

ASIST Knowledge Organization Track Co-chair 2011

Classification Research Special Interest Group - ASIST (SIG-CR) Programme Committee 2011

North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - ISKO Chapter (NASKO) Programme Committee 2011

Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Programme Committee 2011

Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Programme Committee 2010

Adhoc Reviewing

Journals

Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, Information Processing and Management, Information Research, Journal of Information Science, Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice (JISTaP), Journal of Library Metadata, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Knowledge Organization, Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, PLOS One

Conferences

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), iConference, North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - ISKO Chapter (NASKO), Classification Research Special Interest Group - ASIST (SIG-CR)

Academic and Professional Memberships

American Society for Information Science and Technology (2005-)

Association for Computing Machinery (2006-)

Canadian Association for Information Science (2004-)

code4lib (2003-)

International Society for Knowledge Organization (2009-)

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