Jian Qin

Associate Professor

jqin@syr.edu
311 Hinds Hall
(315) 443-5642
http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/jqin/
Jian Qin - Curriculum Vitae

Overview

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.

        

Interests

Research Interests

Information and knowledge organization: metadata, schema representation of information, ontological modeling

Scientific communication: scientific data management, impact assessment, interactions


Teaching Interests

Information organization, metadata, scientific data management, digital libraries, and scholarly communication.

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.

Teaching History

SemesterNumberSectionTitleSyllabus
Fall 2012IST616M800Info Rsces: Organiz & Access
Fall 2012IST676M800Foundations of Digital Data
Spring 2012IST600M003Data Services
Spring 2012IST687M800Scientific Data Management
Spring 2012IST990U003Independent Study
Fall 2011IST616M800Info Rsces: Organiz & Access
Fall 2011IST676M800Digital Libraries
Summer 2011IST800M550Proseminar: Scholarly Comm.
Summer 2011IST681M800Metadata
Spring 2011IST777M001Statistical Methods in IST
Spring 2011IST600M007Scientific Data Management
Fall 2010IST616M001Info Rsces: Organiz & Access
Fall 2010IST676M800Digital Libraries
Summer 2010IST676M800Digital Libraries
Summer 2010IST681M550Metadata
Spring 2010IST616M002Info Rsces: Organiz & Access
Summer 2009IST681M001Metadata
Spring 2009IST676M001Digital Libraries
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