Jian QinJian Qin is Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. Her research interest areas include knowledge modeling and organization, ontologies, learning object vocabulary, metadata, Web content management, and scientific communication. She has published more than 50 papers and has given presentations at numerous national and international conferences. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, OCLC Online Library Computer Center, and Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). She teaches information organization, knowledge organization systems, Web content management, and metadata. She was a visiting scholar at OCLC in 2002 and is a member of the editorial board for two international journals. Dr. Qin holds a PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario.



