DC-2009 SEOUL

Alistair Miles

Alistair Miles is a member of the informatics team within the Centre for Genomics in Global Health, and is based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University. He is part of a team developing information systems to support data-sharing networks that enable clinicians and researchers around the world to collaborate effectively on large-scale research projects assisting the global campaign to eliminate malaria.Previously, Alistair was a senior computing officer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University, where he led the FlyWeb Project, developing proof-of-concept cross-database search tools for genomic research, based on Semantic Web technology. Prior to that, Alistair was a research scientist at the STFC e-Science Centre, where he worked on a number of projects related to the development and application of semantic technologies to data management problems in science.Alistair has also been a member of two Working Groups within the W3C's Semantic Web Activity. He is an editor of the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Reference, currently a W3C Proposed Recommendation.

Eunchul Lee

Michael Crandal

Michael Crandall is Chair of the Master of Science in Information Management program and a Senior Lecturer in the Information School of the University of Washington. Prior to joining the Information School in January of 2005, he spent five years as Technology Manager for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Libraries and Public Access to Information Program, with responsibility for software development, technical support and network deployment for over 40,000 public access computers in over 11,000 libraries across the United States. As part of this project, Mr. Crandall also initiated and managed the program grant for development of WebJunction, an international public access computing portal. Before this, Mr. Crandall was Manager of the Knowledge Architecture Group in Microsoft Information Services, responsible for design and management of the technical infrastructure and search services for Microsoft’s intranet portal site, MSWeb (2.2 million requests and 31,000 users per month), and the design, development, and management of a corporate taxonomy project to support content management and retrieval throughout the company. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at the Boeing Company on multiple projects related to information management and information architecture, including an internal real-time newsfeed, the intranet search engine and portal subject access tools, and the company library’s web site. He was a member of the Boeing Information Management Standards Board, the Web Advisory Board, the Knowledge Management team, and the Structured Information Objects (metadata schemas) Technical Working Group. He has served on the Dublin Core Metadata Board of Trustees since its inception in 2001, and is active in ASIS&T. Research interests include impacts of public access computing, ICT in developing countries, metadata and knowledge organization, social dimensions of knowledge transfer and large scale information systems.

Kai Eckert received his Masters Degree in Computer Science (German equivalent: Diplom-Informatiker) from the University of Mannheim in 2004. Currently he is working as PhD student with main focus on methodologies for the semi-automatic construction of thesauri for automatic document indexing.

Wooseob Jeong is a associate professor, School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee.

Jon Mason is currently a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology teaching in the Masters of Education program while also pursuing PhD studies. In 2005 he established InterCog Pty Ltd for the purpose of providing consultancy services concerned with e-learning, knowledge management, and ICT standardisation. He has played a leading role in Australian engagement in the international ICT specifications and standards development since 1998, initially as the founding co-chair of the DC-Education Working Group but also within the IMS Global Learning Consortium and the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee. He has chaired the Standards Australia sub-committee focused on ICT standards development for Learning, Education, and Training since its inception in 2001 and led the Australian annual delegation to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC36 since 2000. Jon has an extensive publications record and also serves as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Learning Technology.

Emma Tonkin is a Research Officer in the Software and Systems Team at UKOLN. Her background is in physics, human-computer interaction  and computer science. Her current projects include a metadata schema registry, a Rapid Innovation project focusing on social network/identity metadata extraction, and a third exploring the use of existing formal metadata extraction services in a repository context. These research interests are linked to the question of metadata quality, and the use of unreliable or incomplete information from all sorts of sources - from automatically-generated information to community-generated data. She acts as a moderator for the DCMI Registry Community and the DCMI Registry Task Group, and is also active in the ASIST community.

Shigeo Sugimoto is a professor at Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba.

Master Student, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University Digital Content Division System Architect of Hyweb Techology Co., LTD. Taiwan.

Qing (Jason) Zou has been the Systems librarian at Lakehead University since he received his MLIS from McGill University in 2005. He is also a Ph.d student of School of Information Studies at McGill University, Canada. His research areas include integrated library systems, metadata, knowledge organization systems.

Hugh Glaser is a Reader in the School of Electronics & Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. He has a background of more than 30 years research in distributed systems and programming languages; his current research is in Linked Data and he is responsible for the http://rkbexplorer.com/ and http://sameas.org/ services.

Sarah Hayman is the Assistant Manager, Resources for Communities at the company Education.au for edna (Edna Network Australia). She has nearly 30 years of experience as a librarian and information manager in special, research and educational libraries. She has a particular interest in thesauri and vocabularies as well as online bibliographic database management. Sarah is excited by the new social networking developments of web 2.0 in which users are increasingly doing their own information management and is keen to explore and analyse what they do and the implications for the information management profession.

Thomas H. Baker was the DCMI Director Specifications and Documentation since May 2005. He is currently the Chief Information Officer of DCMI Ltd., and is the chair (and founder) of the DCMI Usage Board. He has previously worked as a researcher on digital library issues at the Göttingen State and University Library in Germany and a Project Leader for Digital Libraries at the Birlinghoven Library of the Fraunhofer Society in Bonn. He holds an M.S. in library science from Rutgers University, a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University, and taught for two years at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. He has worked as a partner and activity lead in several EU-funded projects, such as SCHEMAS, CORES, and the DELOS Network of Excellence. He currently co-chairs a working group on interoperable metadata profiles in the Compentence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM) and the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group of the World-Wide Web Consortium.

Marcia Lei Zeng is Professor of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at University of Pittsburgh and M.A. from Wuhan University in China. Her major research interests include knowledge organization systems (taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology, etc), metadata and markup languages, database quality control, multilingual and multi-culture information processing, and digital libraries for cultural objects and learning objects. Her scholarly publications include over 60 papers and four books, as well as many national and international conference presentations. She has chaired and served on standards committees and working groups for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Special Libraries Association (SLA), American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), US National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). She was a member of the Advisory Group for NISO Z39.19-2005 Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri and the IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri. She currently chairs the ASIST Standards Committee and IFLA Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) Working Group while also serving as a working group member in developing the IFLA Guidelines of Digital Libraries and ISO 25964 Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies.

Dr. Sam Gyun Oh is a professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul Korea, head of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 and ISO TC46 SC9. He represents the National Library of Korea at the DCMI Oversight Committee.He teaches courses such as database design, Web database design, designing XML and metadata schemas, ontology modeling, information architecture, and designing knowledge management systems. His main research interest is in the area of metadata and ontology modeling. He has extensive experience in consulting companies and government sectors regarding design of metadata and ontologies. He received his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University, NY, USA in 1995 and worked for the Information School at the University of Washington for 4 years (1994-1998) prior to taking his current post.