Marcia Lei Zeng

Updates (recent activities):

[2026]:

[Webinar]
2026 ASIS&T Webinar: -Generating Smart Data for Diverse Cultural Heritage Resources in the New Era of AI — Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges 2026 April 2.
- The PPT and video are available from DCMI event page

[In news]
Featured with an image in: Kent State R1: More Than 35 Faculty Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2026 Feb.11

[Books]
- AI and the Transformation of Metadata Research and Practices – Global and Regional Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. [2026] Editors: Liu, YingHsang, Marcia Lei Zeng, and Alasdair MacDonald.

- Digital Humanities and Intelligent Computing, a biennial book series, London: Routledge.
- -The 2nd one: AI and Smart Data for Cultural Heritages:2026 Editors: Xiaoguang Wang, Marcia Lei Zeng, Jin Gao, & Ke Zhao.
Book launch event in King’s College London, 22 June 2026
CFP for the next one: AI Ethics and Cultural Engagement: Global Achievements and China’s Innovations CALL FOR PAPERS

[ISO standard, ISO/TC 46/SC]
- ISO/DIS 25964-1:2026 (en). Information and documentation —Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies — Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval; management and use.
- ISO/DIS 25964-2:2013.[in progress of revision] Information and documentation —Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies — Part 2: Interoperability with other Vocabularies.

[Conferences]
- DCMI 2026, August 3-7, Seoul, South Korea
---- Advisor, Conference Organization Committee
- ISKO 2026, August 17-19, São Paulo, Brazil, Brazil
---- Panel : AI and the future of research --  Strategies and approaches through knowledge organization and data standardization
---- Panel :International Standards for KOS supporting information retrieval and machine learning assessment

[Workshop]
- NKOS2026 [Co-chair] in DCMI 2026

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) 2024-2028

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, DCMI 2026, Seoul

==> 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] [2024-2028]
• 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]