Panel : Future of Metadata Education

Long title: From Library Catalog to Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: Shaping the Future of Metadata Education
Starts at: Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 10:30 GMT+2
Finishes at: Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 12:30 GMT+2
Venue: Auditorium
Moderator: Miquel Centelles

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Miquel Centelles

Universitat de Barcelona, Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media
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Miquel Centelles is a professor at the University of Barcelona, specializing in Knowledge Organization, Metadata, and Semantic Web Technologies. He holds degrees in Philology, Library and Information Science, and a PhD on legal thesauri. He coordinates the Master's in Digital Humanities and does research on information retrieval, digital preservation, and accessibility. His current work explores knowledge graphs to enhance generative AI in the project “HerStory: Connecting women’s history to Neuro-Symbolic AI”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science.

From Library Catalog to Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: Shaping the Future of Metadata Education

As AI, linked data, and semantic technologies reshape the information landscape, LIS programs must evolve to prepare students for emerging roles in knowledge organization. This panel—featuring panelists from academia, libraries, and industry—discusses how information organization principles can be applied across sectors. Panelists will explore curriculum gaps, nontraditional career paths, and the importance of practical training and soft skills, inviting dialogue on building more inclusive and responsive LIS education.

Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han is a Professor and Metadata Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include metadata interoperability, information management, and the application of information technologies in libraries. She has served as Co-PI on research projects exploring the benefits for users of linked open data for digitized special collections and Emblematica Online. She is also the co-author of two textbooks on XML. MJ currently serves as Chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC).

Josh Falconer

Bloomberg
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Josh Falconer is a Senior Ontologist at Bloomberg in Princeton, New Jersey. Previously, he was an Ontologist at Indeed. For more than a decade, he served in various bibliographic metadata cataloging roles, with a focus on manuscript library collections from the Middle East and North Africa. His recent research interests center on knowledge organization systems, event representation, and cognitive linguistics. He has earned degrees in philosophy, Semitic languages, and library and information science.

Rhiannon Bettivia

Simmons University
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Dr. Rhiannon Bettivia, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at Simmons University, blends information science, media, heritage, and cultural studies. She examines political and governance concerns in technological infrastructures, particularly digital cultural heritage and video games. Current interests include digital provenance workflows and digital education pedagogy.