Marcia Lei Zeng

[Presentations 2022]:

ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 2022, Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2022. Pittsburgh, PA. USA.
- Panel: "Web Accessibility in the Data-Driven Age - W3C’s Guidelines." Panel Accessibility, Usability, Inclusivity: Information Standards, Guidelines, and Best Practices (ASIS&T Standards Committee). Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59: 561-564. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.627
- Poster: "Creating an Undergraduate Data Science Program in a Disciplinary and Institutional Context in an iSchool." Lead-author: Dr. Yin Zhang

NKOS Workshop 2022, Oct. 6-7. With DC2022. Virtual.
-Co-chair.
-Presentation: Challenges, opportunities, and approaches in a health KOS vocabulary’s revisions --Insights from ICD-11 (Abstract PDF || Presentation PPT) Marcia Zeng (Kent State University, USA.) & Yi Hong (MedeAnalytics, Inc., Texas, USA.) 

DCMI 2022, Oct 3-7, 2022. Virtual.
-Co-organizer for Core Cultural Metadata Mode (CCMM) Workshop";
-- Invited presentation: "What the Core should cover from viewpoints of cultural heritage description and standards."
-Panel organizer: "Cultural and Linguistic Challenges of Metadata Creation"
-Poster: "Linked Open Data Enabled Bibliographical Data (LODE-BD) 3.0" Co-Author: Imma Subirats, FAO of UN.
-Report: "Report from the DCMI Education Committee" in DCMI Community updates

PNC (Pacific Neighborhood Consortium) 2022. Sept. 16-18, 2022, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
- "Using Visual Nomen for Enhancing Semantic Consistency, Communication, and FAIRness of Open Cultural Heritage Resources, in the Cross-Cultural, -Language, and -time Periods Situations".

IFLA SAA Webinar, Aug. 31,2022. Virtual.
- "Development and Implementation of Competency Index for Linked Data in Teaching and Training" (PPT). Webinar Knowledge Organization Competencies and Skills,31 August 2022. Organized by IFLA section Subject Analysis and Access.

IFLA WLIC 2022, July 26-29, 2022. Dublin, Ireland.
- "Semantic shift in Health KOS – the needs, challenges, and approaches, using WHO’s ICD as the case." Session 105 "Semantic shift and knowledge organization systems (KOS)", Subject Analysis and Access (SAA) Section at 87th IFLA World Library and Information Congress

[Presentations in Chinese 2022]:

CDH2022 (China Digital Humanities Conference), Nov. 26-27, 2022. Virtual.
- "DH Education from the World Perspective ". Keynote at 全球视野下的数字人文教育分论坛 DH Education Satellite Meeting.

ADLS2022 (The 18h Advanced Digital Library Seminar), June 15-16, 2022. Virtual.
- "国际上优秀IIIF 应用实例" (International Excellent IIIF Applications)
-"通过高质量的元数据来提高[高层次]开放数据集的FAIRness及使用价值" (Improving the FAIRness and Values of [High-Level] Open Datasets through High-quality Metadata)

Open GLAM Webinars - Digital Humanities ( 中国GLAM公开课 -数字人文系列), 上海大学 (Shanghai University) 主办. April. 23, 2022. Virtual.
- "智慧数据与数字人文视野下的图档博数据崛起" (The Rise of LAM Data from the Perspective of Smart Data and Digital Humanities). [Over 740,000 people attended this webinar].

[Translation contributions 2022]:

VRA Core 4.0 Element Description and Tagging Examples
Available for downloading from https://www.loc.gov/standards/vracore/schemas.html

• Chinese - Simplified (last updated 08/15/2022, PDF)
• Chinese - Traditional (last updated 08/15/2022, PDF)

Major activities, past few years (2019-2021):

Conference chair. 2021 DCMI Virtual, Oct. 4-15, 2021

Co-organizer. NKOS Consolidated Workshops, 2020, 2021

[Health KOSs]

• Keynote. "Health KOSs in a Data-driven Age." ISKO 2021 Lisboa: Knowledge Organization in Horizon 2030 - 5th Congress ISKO Spain-Portugal (15th ISKO Spain), Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 25 - 26, 2021.
  (Paper available in the Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.51427/10451/50067 p.23-38.)
  
  
• Workshop. "International Classification of Diseases (ICD)." 6th ISKO-Brazil Conference, December 14-15, 2021.
  
  
• Panel. "Updates of Information Standards and Standardization Efforts (ASIS&T Standards Committee)" 2021 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, Oct. 30-Nov. 3, 2021.
  
  
• Supervisor (doctoral student's dissertation). Julaine Clunis. 2021-12. "Semantic Analysis Mapping Framework for Clinical Coding Schemes: A Design Science Research Approach." Available on OhioLINK.
  
  
• Related article: "Implications of knowledge Organization Systems for Health Information Exchange and Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic". Marcia Lei Zeng, Yi Hong, Julaine Clunis, Shaoyi He, & L.P. Coladangelo. Data and Information Management, 2020, 4(3): 148–170. Available on the WHO Global Research on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
  

[Semantic Enrichment]

• Keynote. "Semantic Enrichment of LAM Data to Support Digital Humanities." MTSR 2021. 15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, virtual, Complutense University of Madrid, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2021.
  
  
• Keynote. "Semantic Enrichment for Enhancing Historical and Cultural Heritage Data to Support Digital Humanities Research" HELDIG Digital Humanities Summit 2020, Dec 11, 2020. (Presentation video, slides)
  
  
• Related article: "Semantic enrichment for enhancing LAM data and supporting digital humanities. Review Article." El profesional de la información, v. 28, n. 1, e280103. Jan. 2019. http://www.elprofesionaldelainformacion.com/contenidos/2019/ene/03.html
  

[FAIR Principles]

• Keynote. "Functional Metrics for LOD KOS Products", Getty Vocabulary ITWG 2020, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, 6-7 Feb. 2020.
  
  
• Invited talk. "FAIR + FIT : Functional Metrics for Linked Open Data (LOD) KOS Products." ISKO-UK Research Observatory (KO-RO) online event FAIR Principles and Semantic Interoperability, Oct. 27, 2021.
  
  
• Invited talk. "Enhancing the FAIRness of the (meta)data in the Korean National Debt Redemption Movement Archive (NDRMA)." ANDRM Conference 2021: Paying our Debts to Memory: Preserving the Archive of the Korean National Debt Redemption Movement, Oct. 21–22, 2021.
  
  
• Distinguished Lecture. “Ensuring the FAIRness of Metadata in the Open Data Mainstream — Requirements and opportunities.” Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) Department of Information Science, Feb. 15, 2021.
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  "FAIRness of Metadata in the Open Data Mainstream" New Mexico Technology Council (NMTC) Big Data Peer Group, May 18, 2021.
  
  
• Related article: "FAIR + FIT : Guiding Principles and Functional Metrics for Linked Open Data (LOD) KOS Products." Marcia Lei Zeng & Julaine Clunis. Journal of Data and Information Science (JDIS) 5(1), 2020. https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2020-0008
  

[Smart Data for Digital Humanities (DH)]

• Keynote. "智慧數據 for 數字人文". 數位典藏與數位人文國際研討會 11th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, DADH 2020. Dec. 1-4, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan. (News)
  
  
• Keynote. "Smart Data for Digital Humanities". SWIB19 - 11th Semantic Web in Libraries Conference, 25-27 November 2019, Hamburg, Germany. (Slides || Video )
  
  
• Review blurb for the book: Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities - Global Perspectives. Edited By Koraljka Golub, Ying-Hsang Liu. ISBN 9780367675516. 2021.[Full Book (Open Access)]
  
  
• Related article: "Smart Data for Digital Humanities" Marcia Lei Zeng. Journal of Data and Information Science. 2(1):1-12, 2017. DOI: 10.1515/jdis-2017-0001

[Linked Data]

• Guidelines. Linked Open Data Enabled Bibliographical Data (LODE-BD) 3.0. Imma Subirats (FAO) and Marcia Lei Zeng. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. 2020.
  https://doi.org/10.4060/cb2209en ISBN: 978-92-5-133655-7, 95 pages.[Abstract and TOC || PDF || Google Books)
  
  
• Panel. "Implementing the Linked Data Competency Index (LDCI) in Teaching and Training." Panel, Linked Data Education and Training: Past, Present, and Future. 2020 ASIS&T Virtual Annual Meeting. Oct. 22-Nov. 1, 2020.
• Related Website: Linked Data Competency Index (LDCI) & updates in GitHub for LDCI
  
  
• Presentations. (1) "LOD KOS" & (2) "Combining, Linking and Reusing Conservation KOS vocabularies". Linked Conservation Data (LCD) Terminology Workshop, 6-7 June 2019. Stanford University, CA.
  
  
• Book chapter: "Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) in the Semantic Web. A Multi-Dimensional Review" Marcia Lei Zeng, Philipp Mayr. In: Linking Knowledge - Linked Open Data for Knowledge Organization and Visualization. Ed. by Richard P. Smiraglia, Andrea Scharnhorst. 2021, ISBN 978-3-95650-660-4. page 34–63. Pre-print full text

[KOS Interoperability]

• Virtual Class. “Towards interoperability of KOS vocabularies.”  ISKO-UK Knowledge Organization Education (KO-ED), London, UK. Feb. 04, 2021.
  
  
• Related Encyclopedia Paper: "Interoperability." Knowledge Organization v. 46 no.2 2019. Also available at ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization (IEKO).
  • Website of bookmarks for research and educational use: "Semantic Interoperability --Notes and bookmarks"

Current services and acknowledgements:

ASIS&T 2024 Award of Merit, https://www.asist.org/2024/06/24/marcia-zeng-to-receive-the-asist-2024-award-of-merit/

Executive Board member, International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) 2020-2024

Governing Board member, DCMI Governing Board Sept. 2021 -- present

ISKO liaison member of ISO/TC 37/SC 3, Management of terminology resources. 2021-- present

ISKO Scientific and Technical Advisory Council (STAC) member, 2022-2025

Co-Chair, Digital Humanities Curriculum Committee (iDHCC), iSchools Organization. Feb. 2019 -- 2021

Chair, DCMI Education Committee. 2021 -- present

ASIS&T Distinguished Member, Inaugural Class of 2021

Conference Advisor, DC-2022, DCMI-2023 Daegu, DCMI 2024 Toronto

==> Curriculum Vitae ==>

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; Linked Data; thesaurus, taxonomy, ontology, and other knowledge organization systems (KOS); database quality control; indexing systems and software, application of expert systems; multilingual information processing; digital humanities.

Current courses:

• LIS 60636 Knowledge Organization Systems: Taxonomy, Thesaurus, Ontology, 15 weeks (information)
• UxD 61095 Knowledge Organization Structures for UxD, 7 weeks
• LIS 60637 Metadata Architectures and Implementations, 15 weeks (information and outline)
• LIS 60635 Cultural Heritage Informatics, 10 weeks (information)
• LIS 61095 Linked Data, 15 weeks

Professional Affiliations and Working Groups (a selected list)

• International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)
• Executive Board [2008-2012] [2016-2020] [2020-2024 photo]
• ISKO Scientific and Technical Advisory Council (STAC) member, 2022-2025
  
  
• Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
• Board [Directors-at-Large, 2010-2013]
• Standards Committee [chair; member 2014-present]
• Lead Guest Editor. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Special Issue on Digital Humanities (DH), 2021(online), 2012-02 (printed). 
  
  
• NKOS group (Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services)
  • Web master [1998-present]
  • Workshops co-organizer [current years]
    
    
• IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
  • Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) [Chair, 2005-2011]
  • Digital Library Guidelines Working Group [member, 2007—2010]
  • Division IV (Bibliographic Control) [Coordinating Board, member, 2003-2005]
  • Section on Classification and Indexing [Chair, 2003-2005]
    
    
• ISO 25964 Thesauri and Interoperability with Other Vocabularies [member]
  
  
• The Dublin Core Meta data Initiative (DCMI)
• DCMI-NKOS Interest Group [Co-chair]
• DCMI Advisory Board [[inaugural Chair, 2013-2014]
• Teaching Metadata Interest Group [Co-chair]
• DCMI Education Committee [Chair, 2021--present]
• DCMI Governing Board [Member, Sept. 2021 -- present]
  
  
• iSchools Organization
  • Digital Humanities Curriculum Committee (iDHCC) [Co-Chair, Feb. 2019 - 2021]