Jian Qin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

 

School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
235 Hinds Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
Tel: (315)443-5642
Email: jqin at syr dot edu

 

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Professional Activities

Invited Presentations and Talks 

2006:

Overview of digital asset management. Presentation given at Shanghai Library for the Shanghai Library Association, June 30, 2006.

 Using knowledge organization systems to support searching in indexing databases. Presentation given at Shanghai Library for the Shanghai Library Association, June 23, 2006.

Ontology development and implementation. Presentation given at Zhejiang Provincial Library for the Zhejiang Library Association, June 16, 2006.

Using knowledge organization systems to support searching in indexing databases. Presentation given at the Shanxi Agriculture Academy, Taiyuan, Shanxi, May 19, 2006.

2005:

Presentations were given on topics of

1.      Building a Semantic Network for Information Retrieval

2.      Semantic Web and Ontologies

at the following institutions:

·                  China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), July 4-8, 2005

·                  Tsinghua University Library, June 24, 2005

·                  Library of Chinese Academy of Science, June 25, 2005

·                  Library Associations of Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, and Shanghai, June 30-July 1, 2005

·                  Xiamen University Library, July 3-8, 2005

2004:

Presentations given on topics of

1.      Metadata and the organization and management of scientific data and information

2.      The role of academic libraries in building digital learning resources

3.      Semantic Web and ontologies

at the following workshops:

  • Advanced Seminar for Digital Library Research and Development, Shenzhen University Town, Shenzhen, China, June 23-25, 2004
  • Third Advanced Seminar for Network Information and Technology Development, Beijing Document Services, Beijing, China, June 28-29, 2004
  • Wuhan University Library, Wuhan, China, July 1-2, 2004.

Introduction to Semantic Web standards, technologies, and applications. A half-day seminar given at Shanghai Jiaotong University Library, January 2, 2004.

2003:

Introduction to Semantic Web standards, technologies, and applications. A one-day workshop given at Beijing University Library, December 20, 2003.

Introduction to Semantic Web standards, technologies, and applications. A half-day seminar given at Qinghua University Library, December 22, 2003.

2002:

Knowledge Management and Technology: Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries. Symposium of Knowledge Management, Beijing, China, May 20, 2002. Sponsored by Chinese Academy of Science Library and Information Center.

2000:

Introduction to eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Second Advanced Seminar for Network and information Technology 2000, sponsored by Beijing Document Service, Beijing, China.

1999:

Technology and Standards for Information Resource Sharing. A three-day seminar given at the Second Summer Workshop for Advanced Librarianship, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, July 19-22, 1999.

Special Issues Edited:

Qin, J., B. Kwasnik, & D. Roussinov (Eds.) “Special Issue on Taxonomy and Classification.” Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 6(2): http://InformationR.net/6-2/paper94.html (January 2001).

Qin, J. (Ed.) "Knowledge Discovery in Databases." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 27(1) (October/November 2000).

Spink, A. and J. Qin, (Eds.) “Web Research and Information Retrieval.” Information Processing and Management, 36(2): 205-89 (Mar. 2000). 

Qin, J. and M. J. Norton, (Eds.) “Discovering Knowledge in Bibliographic Databases.” Library Trends, 48(1), Summer 1999.

Editorial Board

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ircont.html, member, 1999-

Modern Library and Information Technology, member, 2003- (Published by the Chinese Academy of Science Library and Information Center)

Reviews  

Journal reviews:

  • BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (BMC = BioMed Central)
  • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Journal (Korea)
  • Information Research (UK)
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Information Processing and Management

Research Proposal Reviews:

  • Austrian Science Fund
  • Singapore National Institute for Education
  • US National Science Foundation

Conference Program Committees:

  • DC2003
  • The Seventh International Conference on Digital Libraries
  • ASIS&T Annual Conferences

Committees

American Society for Information Science and Technology

·                  Best Information Science Book Award Jury Committee, Chair, 2003

·                  Awards and Honors Committee, member, 2002

·                  ISI/ASIS&T Citation Research Grant Jury Committee, member, 1999-2001

·                  SIG/Scientific and Technology Information, Coordinator of Student Award, 1999-; Chair-elect, 2004-2005, Chair, 2005-2006.

Special Libraries Association

  • Committee on Cataloging, Chair, 2002-2003; member, 2001-2003.
  • Upstate New York Chapter Advisory Board, member, 2001-

Panels Organized and Moderated

Organizer for ASIST Annual Meeting 2006: “Access to Scientific Data: Challenges and Strategies.”

Organizer for ASIST Annual Meeting 2006: “The Metadata Research Landscape.”

Organizer and Moderator for the ASIST Annual Meeting 2005: “Managing Scientific Data and Information: A Technical Discussion.”

Moderator for the ASIST Annual Meeting 2004: “Metadata and Standards.” (Paper session)

Organizer and Moderator for the ASIST Annual Meeting 2002: “Deeper Representation of Digital Information: from Metadata to Semantic Data.”

Organizer and Moderator for the ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2000: “Conquering the Babel: Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval.”

Organizer of a panel for the ASIS Annual Meeting 1999: “The Metadata Architecture: Issues, Problems, and Future Research.”

Organizer of a panel for ASIS Annual Meeting 1999: “Discovering Knowledge Networks: from Document Representation to Content Linkages.”

Organizer and moderator of a panel proposal accepted by ASIS Mid-Year 1999. “Access to Scholarly Information via Professional Societies' Web Sites: Content, Means, and Uses.” (Withdrawn due to conflicting schedules)

Organizer of a panel for the ASIS Annual Meeting 1997 “Multilingual Databases in the Networking Age: Strategies for Connecting Producers and Users.”

Memberships

American Society for Information Science and Technology

Special Library Association

 

     


 

 

 

Last updated: 2006-10-14