Overview
Jian Qin researches and teaches in the areas of knowledge organization, information organization, and information technology applications in managing knowledge and information. She has 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.
Research Interests
Knowledge organization systems, ontologies, schema representation of information, metadata, knowledge discovery in bibliographic databases, and scientific communication.
Teaching Interests
Knowledge organization and ontologies, metadata, information organization, digital libraries, databases, and XML technologies
Professional Interests
I have co-edited four special topic issues for professional journals and organized a number of technical panels at professional conferences. I am currently serving on the editorial board of the Chinese Journal for Library and Information Science and Modern Library and Information Technology. I am actively involved in the Special Interest Group for Scientific and Technology Information of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. I am also the faculty advisor for the Certificate for Advanced Studies in Digital Libraries at Syracuse University.
Personal Interests
An ideal lazy day for me is reading a novel with background music playing. I also enjoy jogging, swimming, and gardening.