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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 (recent activities):

My student's thesis: Jeff Mixter. MLIS. M.S.iakm (April, 2013). Linked Data in VRA Core 4.0: Converting VRA XML Records into RDF/XML. Thesis, ontology, and XSLT stylesheet are available at: http://jmixter.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/thesis/

Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack. Report on the 2012 Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop. D-Lib Magazine, 19 (3/4), 2013. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/zeng/03zeng.html

Understanding and Using Linked Data: Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Fifth LOD@AIMS Webinar. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), January 28, 2013. http://aims.fao.org/linked-open-data-webinars-at-aims/marcia-zeng/eng

Are Ph.D. graduates prepared to meet the challenges of information organization in the Semantic Web era? (With Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba). Poster presentation at ALISE 2013, Seattle.

The state of KOS in the Linked Data movement - The publishing, management, and interoperating of KOS for the Semantic Web. Panel presentation at the ASIS&T 75th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-30, 2012. PPT Available at: http://www.slideshare.net/MarciaZeng/zeng-asist2012

LODE-BD Recommendations 2.0 -- Report on how to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographic data. Released by Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Available at:http://aims.fao.org/lode/bd

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-TG = Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - Application Profile for KOS Resources Task Group
  • EU-ICP-PSP = EU Information and Communication Technology Policy Support Programme
  • EU ADMS-WG = EU ISA Programme Asset Description Metadata Schema Working group
  • FAO = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • IFLA = International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
  • IFLA-DL WG = IFLA Working Group on Digital Libraries
  • IFLA-FRSAR-WG = IFLA Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records Working Group
  • IMLS = Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • ISO = International Organization for Standardization
  • KSU = Kent State University
  • NSF = National Science Foundation
  • OBR = Ohio Board of Regents
  • OCLC = OCLC Online Computer Library Center
  • W3C LLD-XG = World Wide Web Consortium Library Linked Data Incubator Group

Metadata Tutorial and Tools

KOS Tutorial and Tools

Working Groups in action

Just Completed Group Work

Current courses:

Workshops Developed and Taught

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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)