DCMI Community Updates

Alasdair MacDonald is the Metadata and University Collections Facility Manager at Edinburgh University Library, where he has worked since 2014. He is the manager of the Metadata Team, which provides a centralised bibliographic cataloguing service to all Library sites, and also manages the Library's offsite collections store. Alasdair is the current Chair of the DCMI Governing Board and Vice Chair of the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group Scotland Committee. He has previously held posts at the Bodleian Library and National Library of Scotland.

Prof. Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University, the recipient of the 2024 ASIS&T Award of Merit. Her research interests include knowledge organization systems, metadata, and digital humanities, with over 100 research papers and six books. Her projects received funding from the NSF, IMLS, OCLC, Fulbright, etc. She has chaired and served on committees, working groups, and executive boards including IFLA, SLA, ASIS&T, NISO, ISO, DCMI, ISKO, iSchools, and W3C. Currently, she is chairing the DCMI Education Committee, while serving as a member of the DCMI Governing Board and ISKO Board of Directors.

Jian Qin is Professor of the iSchool at Syracuse University and currently serves as the Director for Dublin Core Academy. She conducts research in metadata, knowledge organization and representation, data and knowledge modeling, ontologies, research collaboration networks, research impact assessment, and data curation. Her research has received funding from U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Institutes for Health, and U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services. She was the recipient of the 2020 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology.

Argie has been coordinating the automation of subject indexing using methods from artificial intelligence at ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany, since 2018. They have obtained a PhD in theoretical computer science and an additional qualification in the library domain and have previously worked for the Bavarian State Library and in research and development at TIB Leibniz Centre for Science and Technology. Their interests focus on semantic technologies, machine learning models, and how those two branches can be integrated sustainably for the purposes of knowledge organization.