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Marcia Lei Zeng 曾蕾
Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio, USA

http://www.slis.kent.edu/~mzeng/

http://marciazeng.slis.kent.edu
or: http://faculty-l.slis.kent.edu/~mzeng/

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my twitter: @marciazeng

==> Curriculum Vitae | Short Bio

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Textbook: Zeng, Marcia Lei & Jian Qin. 2008.6. Metadata. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman.
| Catalog | Website for metadata etc. (continually updated) | Find a copy in a library |

Updates:

Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) version 1.00 -now available for download at http://lnkd.in/u5K92R. ADMS is an initiative of the ISA Programme of the European Commission. ADMS is a vocabulary for describing semantic assets such as data dictionaries, data models, code lists, XML schemas and RDF models. 
Information about this project at: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/description

From ISO 2788 to ISO 25964: the evolution of thesaurus standards towards interoperability and data modeling. Information Standards Quarterly (Winter 2012, v.24, no. 1), by Stella G. Dextre Clarke and Marcia Lei Zeng, Available at: http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2012/v24no1/clarke/.

Meaningful Bibliographic Metadata (M2B): Recommendations of a set of metadata properties and encoding vocabularies. Beta version. Released bailable y Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Avat: http://aims.fao.org/advice/metadata-beta-version

Coming up:

KOS relationships: Applying the FRBR model to versions of the DDC. Paper to be presented at the 12th International ISKO Conference Categories, Relations and Contexts in Knowledge Organization,  Mysore, 6-9 August 2012.

Alignment of Conceptual Structures in Controlled Vocabularies in the Domain of Chinese Art – A Discussion of Issues and Patterns. Paper to be presented at 12th International ISKO Conference Categories, Relations and Contexts in Knowledge Organization,  Mysore, 6-9 August 2012.

Modeling Classification Systems in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts. Paper to be presented at IFLA Satellite Post-Conference Beyond libraries – subject metadata in the digital environment and semantic web, 17-18 August 2012, Tallinn, Estonia.


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.

areas of interest

Acronyms and Abbreviations:

DCMI/NKOS WG = Dublin Core Application Profile for KOS Resources Task Group
EU-ICP-PSP = EU Information and Communication Technology Policy Support Programme
FAO = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
IFLA = International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
IFLA-DL WG = Working Group on Digital Libraries
IFLA-FRSAR-WG = Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records Working Group
IMLS = Institute of Museum and Library Services
KSU = Kent State University
NSF = National Science Foundation
OBR = Ohio Board of Regents
OCLC = OCLC Online Computer Library Center

Metadata Tutorial and Tools

KOS Tutorial and Tools

Working Groups in action

Just Completed Group Work


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Professional Affiliations and Active Working Groups


mzeng at Kent dot edu, (330)672-2782 (SLIS phone) (330)672-7965 (SLIS fax)