Publications

A complete list of publications can be found in my CV.

Book

Zeng, M.L. and J. Qin. (2008). Metadata. New York: Neal-Schuman. ISBN: 9781555706357 (http://www.neal-schuman.com/bdetail.php?isbn=9781555706357)

Book Chapters

Qin, J. & Prado, J.C. (2006). The semantic and syntactic model of metadata. In: Alfabetiza??o Digital e Accesso ao Conhecimento (S?rie Comunica??o da Informacao Digital 2006), Vol. 4 (pp. 143-156). Brasilia: Departmento de Ci?ncia da Informa??o e Documenta??o, Universidade de Brasilia.

Qin, J. (2006). An overview of research in Semantic Web and ontologies. In: Z. Wang (Ed.), Advances in Information Science: Annual Review 2004-2005, Vol. 6 (pp. 46-58). Beijing: National Defense Industry Press. (Text in Chinese) ISBN: 7-118-04438-5

Refereed Journal Articles

Liu, X., J. Qin, & M. Chen. (in review). An interactive metadata model for structural, descriptive, and referential representation of scholarly output. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Steinhart, G. & Qin, J. (in review). Mentoring for emerging careers in eScience librarianship: An iSchool – Academic Library Partnership. Journal of eScience Librarianship, http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/jqin/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Mentoring-for-eScience-Librarianship.pdf

Qin, J. & J. D’Ignazio. (2010). The central role of metadata in a science data literacy course. Journal of Library Metadata, 10: 2, 188-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2010.506379

Chen, C., K. Sun, G. Wu, Q. Tang, J. Qin, K. Qiu, Y. Fu, X. Wang, & J. Liu. (2009). The impact of Internet resources on scholarly communication: A citation analysis. Scientometrics, 81(2): 459-474.

Park, J.-H. & J. Qin (2007). Exploring the willingness of scholars to accept open access: a grounded theory approach. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 38(2): 55-84.

Qin, J. & N. Hernandez. (2006). Building interoperable vocabulary and structures for learning objects. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(2): 280-292.

Qin, J. & M. Taffet. (2004). Vocabulary use in XML standards in the financial and capital markets domain. Knowledge and Information Systems, 6(3): 269-289.

Qin, J. (2004). Ontologies and Semantic Web: current development and research agenda. Library and Information Technology (Abstract in English, text in Chinese), No.1, 16-23.

Qin, J. & S. Paling. (2001). Converting a controlled vocabulary into an ontology: the case of GEM. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 6(2): http://InformationR.net/ir/6-2/paper94.html (January).

Qin, J. (2000). Semantic similarities in a keyword database and a controlled vocabulary database: an investigation in antibiotic resistance literature. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(2): 166-180.

Qin, J. & K. Wesley. (1998). Web indexing with meta fields: a survey of Web objects in polymer science. Information Technology and Libraries, 17(3): 149-156.

Qin, J., F.W. Lancaster & B. Allen. (1997). Levels and types of collaboration in interdisciplinary research. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(10): 893-916.

Allen, B., J. Qin, & F. W. Lancaster. (1994). Persuasive communities: a longitudinal analysis of references in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665-1990. Social Studies of Science, 24(2): 279-310.

Qin, J. (1994). An investigation of research collaboration in the sciences through the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1901-1991. Scientometrics 29(2): 219-238.

Refereed Conference Papers

Qin, J., A. Ball, & J. Greenberg. (2012). Functional and architectural requirements for metadata: Supporting discovery and management of scientific data. Dublin Core International Conference DC-2012, Kuching, Malaysia, September 3-7, 2012.

Crowston, K. & J. Qin. (2011). A capability maturity model for scientific data management: Evidence from the literature. In: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, New Orleans, LA, October 9-13, 2011.

Qin, J., M. Chen, X. Liu, & A. Wiggins. (2010). Linking entities in scientific metadata. In: Proceedings of the Dublin Core International Conference DC-2010, Pittsburg, PA, October 20-22, 2010.

Qin, J. & J. D’Ignazio. (2010). Lessons learned from a two-year experience in science data literacy education. In: Proceedings of the 31^st Annual International Association of Scientific and Technology University Libraries Conference, June 20 – 24, 2010, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Qin, J. (2010). Empirically assessing impact of scholarly research. In: Proceedings of the iConference, February 3-6, 2010, Champaign, Illinois.

Qin, J., X. Liu, M. Chen, X. & Lin. (2009). Using metadata for query refinement and recommendation. In: : Proceedings of the Dublin Core International Conference, October 12-16, 2009, Soul, Korea.

Liu, X, M. Chen, J. Qin, & J-H. Park. (2008). Automatic semantic mapping between query terms and controlled vocabulary using WordNet and Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 24-29, 2008, Columbus, Ohio.

Chen, M., X. Liu, & J. Qin. (2008). Semantic relation extraction from socially-generated tag: A methodology for metadata extraction. In: Proceedings of the Dublin Core International Conference, September 22-25, 2008, Berlin, Germany.

Qin, J. (2008). Controlled semantics vs. social semantics: An epistemological analysis. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference, August 5-8, 2008 (pp. 233-238).

Qin, J., Creticos, P., & Hsiao, W. (2006). Adaptive modeling of workforce domain knowledge. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference, July 4-8, 2006, Vienna, Austria.

Qin, J. & J. C. Prado. (2005). Use of learning object vocabulary in GEM queries. In: T. Baker and E. Mendez (Eds.), DC-2005 Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice, Madrid, Spain, September 12-15, 2005 (pp. 179-182). Leganes, Spain: Library and Information Sciences Department of University Carlos III of Madrid.

Qin, J. & F. Zhang. (2004). Managing institutional repositories with an ontology-based approach. In: Z. Chen et al. (Eds.), Digital Libraries: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization: 7th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2004, Shanghai, China, December 13-17, 2004 Proceedings (pp. 300-309). LNCS3334. Berlin: Springer.

Creticos, P. & J. Qin. (2004). Open Knowledge Exchange (OKE) for workforce development. In: C. Bussler et al. (Eds.), The Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2004 Workshops, Brisbane, Australia, November 22-24, 2004, Proceedings, 73–81. LNCS 3307, Berlin: Springer.

Qin, J. & N. Hernandez. (2004). Ontological representation of learning objects: building interoperable vocabulary and structures. In: Proceedings of WWW2004, New York, May 17-22, 2004, 348-349. New York: ACM Press.

Qin, J. & J. Godby. (2003). Incorporating educational vocabulary in learning object Metadata Schemes. In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 7^th European Conference, ECDL 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 17-22, 2003, Proceedings, 52-57. Berlin: Springer.

Qin, J. & C. Finneran. (2002). Ontological representation of learning objects. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Document Search Interface Design and Intelligent Access in Large-Scale Collections, JCDL’02, July 18, Portland, OR.

Qin, J. (2002). Evolving paradigms of knowledge representation: a comparative study of classification, XML/DTD, and ontology. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference, July 10-12, 2002, Granada, Spain, 465-471. Würzburg, Germany: Ergon.

Qin, J. & J. Chen. (2001). A multi-layered, multidimensional representation of digital educational resources. In: Subject Retrieval in the Networked Environment: Proceedings of the IFLA Satellite Meeting held in Dublin, OH, 14-16 August 2001, 90-96. München: K. G. Saur (published in 2003).

Qin, J. (1998). Information Modules in a Scientific/Engineering Workstation: Roadblocks in Utilizing Electronic Information for Interdisciplinary Research. In: Proceedings: Socioeconomic Dimensions of Electronic Publishing Workshop—Meeting the Needs of the Engineering and Scientific Communities, Santa Barbara, CA, April 23-25, 121-126. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 1998.

Qin, J. (1995). Collaboration and publication productivity: an experiment with a new variable in Lotka’s Law. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics, 445-454. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

Refereed Conference Posters

Curty, R. & J. Qin. (2012). Bringing it to the surface: Investigating metadata practices to improve electronic preprints visibility. Dublin Core International Conference DC-2012, Kuching, Malaysia, September 3-7, 2012.

D’Ignazio, J. & J. Qin. (2012). A novel approach to enhance research group-level science data management. In: Proceedings of 75th Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Baltimore, October 28-30, 2012. Poster

Costa, M. & J. Qin. (2012). Analysis of Cyberinfrastructure Enabled Research Networks through Mining a Large Data Repository: A Pilot Study. The 17^th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Montreal, Canada, September 5-8, 2012.

D’Ignazio, J., J. Qin, & J. Kitlas. (2012). Using internship experience to evaluate a new program in eScience librarianship. iConference 2012, Toronto, Canada, February 7-10, 2012.

Curty, R. & J. Qin. (2012). An exploratory study of indicators for analyzing institutional repositories’ performance. iConference 2012, Toronto, Canada, February 7-10, 2012.

Qin, J., H. Turtle, & D. Brown. (2011). A Provenance Metadata Model for Gravitational Wave Datasets. International Conference for Digital Curation, Bristol, UK, 5 – 7 December 2011.

Liu, X., M. Chen, & J. Qin. (2011). ScholarWiki system for knowledge indexing and retrieval. In: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, New Orleans, LA, October 9-13, 2011.

Jones, J., M. Costa, J. Qin, K. Kelly, & M. Marlino. (2011). Value and impact metrics for open repositories. Open Repositories 2011, June 6-11, 2011, Austin, Texas. PDF

Bohémier, K., T. Atwood, A. Kuehn, & J. Qin. (2011). A content analysis of institutional data policies. Joint Conference of Digital Libraries, June 13-17, 2011, Ottawa, Canada.

Qin, J., J. D’Ignazio, M. Oakleaf, K. Crowston, A. Wiggins, & G. Steinhart. (2010). Educating eScience librarians. In: The 6^th International Digital Curation Conference, December 6-8, 2010, Chicago, IL. PDF

Crowston, K. & J. Qin. (2010). A capability maturity model for scientific data management. In: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 24-26, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.

D’Ignazio, J. A. & J. Qin. (2008). Faculty data management practices: a campus-wide census of STEM departments. In: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 24-29, 2008, Columbus, Ohio.

Qin, J. (2008). Scientific Data Literacy (SDL): Challenges and lessons learned in developing the SDL course. U.S. National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement PI Conference, August 13-15, 2008.

Chen, M. & J. Qin. (2008). Deriving ontology from folksonomy and controlled vocabulary. iConference 2008, University of California Los Angeles, February 28-29, 2008.

Invited Book Chapters

Qin, J. (2009). Organizing information and knowledge in the eScience/eResearch environment. In: F. Ma (Ed.), Advances in Information Resource Planning and Knowledge Science, pp. 241-267. Wuhan, China: Wuhan University Press. (Text in Chinese)

Qin, J. (2005). Ontology-based Semantic Web. In: M. Zeng et al. (Eds.), Knowledge Technologies and Applications (pp. 99-120). Beijing, China: Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing House. (Text in Chinese) ISBN: 7-5023-5134-5

Invited Journal Articles

Qin, J. (2012). On the horizon of eScience librarianship. Journal of eScience Librarianship 1.1. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jian_qin/6

Qin, J. (2008). F.W. Lancaster: A bibliometric analysis. Library Trends, 56(4): 954-967.

Qin, J. (2000). Representation and organization of information in the Web space: From MARC to XML. Informing Science, 3(2): 83-88 (http://inform.nu/).

White Paper

Qin, J., D’Ignazio, J., & Baldwin, S. (2011). A workflow-based knowledge management architecture for geodynamics data. A White paper submitted to NSF GEO/OCI EarchCube Charrette meeting: http://jqin.mysite.syr.edu/pubs/ EarthCube_white_paper_workflow-based_KM_architecture.pdf. Also available from: http://earthcube.ning.com/page/whitepapers

Reports

Qin, J. & J. D’Ignazio. (2009). Enhancing scientific data literacy in undergraduate science and technology students: final report for NSF CCLI award #0633447. 78 pages.

Editorials

Qin, J. (2006). Editorial – Vocabularies in practice: a selection of papers from DC2005. New Technology of Library and Information Service, No. 1, 1-2. (published in China)

Special Issues Edited

Qin, J. (Ed.) (2006). Vocabularies in practice: a selection of papers from DC2005. New Technology of Library and Information Service, No. 1.