I am an Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. The areas of my research interest include knowledge modeling and organization, ontologies, metadata, Web content management, and scientific communication.
My study of scientific communication has used scientometric methods to analyze patterns and trends in scientific communication as reflected from co-authorship and citations. The bibliographically coupled citation analysis received the Citation Research grant from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), in which I investigated semantic indexing patterns in antibiotic resistance literature.
The ongoing project I have been working on is the eScience Librarianship project funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. This project developed a new curriculum aiming at educating the new generation of science librarians who will be working side by side with researchers in the cyberinfrastructure-enabled eScience environment. This project is an extension of the Scientific Data Literacy project with funding from U.S. National Science Foundation.
I have been invited to give presentations on using scientific metadata to manage data and provide data services. My research on computational representation of Web resources in polymer science was funded by OCLC Online Library Computer Center in the early days of metadata movement. I was the co-author of the book Metadata published in 2008.
I teach several courses related to my research areas: Metadata, Information Organization, Digital Libraries, Technologies in Web Content Management, and Knowledge Organization Structures.
For more information about my research and teaching, please check out other pages on this website.
I can be reached at:
jqin@syr.edu
School of Information Science
Syracuse University
235 Hinds Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
Telephone: 315-443-5642