L.P Coladangelo is a doctoral student in the College of Communication and Information (CCI). His research interests include knowledge organization of cultural heritage, metadata, information representation of folk traditions, digital humanities, semantic technologies, and the information behaviors of cultural heritage and leisure communities of practice.
L.P.’s career goals are to enter the professional world of information science to teach courses in Information Organization, conduct empirical research, work in an academic library setting or culture heritage institution as part of a digital humanities initiatives regarding the development and implementation of knowledge organization systems and (meta)data projects.
L.P. is a student representative member of DCMI metadata international organizations committee. As a co-author, he contributed to an article by Dr Marcia Zeng in 2021 titled “Implications of Knowledge Organization Systems for Health Information Exchange and Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic”. This published paper has been on the WHO Global research on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) site and has gone on to be cited in 10 articles in the fields of Medical and Health Sciences, Information and Computing Sciences, and Biological Sciences. He also recently gave a related presentation alongside Dr. Zeng at CCI Colloquium on this paper.
In addition, L.P has published two papers and co-authored two additional papers. One of his presentations at the 2021 NKOS workshop made a great impact and has been referenced internationally. This presentation was on a paper titled “Organizing Controversy: Toward Cultural Hospitality in Controlled Vocabularies through Semantic Annotation” and has been accepted by the top referred Journal “Knowledge Organization”. More of L.P.s work can be found on his portfolio.
What L.P. likes most about KSU is that the faculty are very invested in their students and take a holistic approach to their education. This approach includes a lot of care and concern for students’ individual interests and needs. In L.P.’s free time, he enjoys playing tabletop tennis, video games, spending time with his friends, folk dancing, and traveling especially to Disney parks.