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Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D.

Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D.

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Kent
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Email:
mzeng [at] kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-0009
Personal Website:
Marcia Lei Zing

Biography

Introduction Video: Meet Marcia Zeng, Ph.D.

Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., is a professor of library and information science at Kent State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at University of Pittsburgh (USA) and M.A. from Wuhan University (China). Her major research interests include knowledge organization systems (taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology, etc.), Linked Data, metadata and markup languages, database quality control, multilingual and multi-culture information processing, and digital libraries for cultural objects. Her scholarly publications consist of more than 80 papers and five books, as well as about 200 national and international conference presentations, invited lectures and keynote speeches. She was the P.I. and Co-P.I. of two National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Science Digital Library (NSDL) projects. She currently is the P.I. of an IMLS funded Linked Data project. In 2014 she was elected inaugural chair of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Advisory Board. Also in 2014, Zeng was recognized by Kent State University for Outstanding Research and Scholarship, and in 2016 she received the President’s Faculty Excellence Award from University President Beverly Warren. 

For a full list of publications, visit my Google Scholar page or on ResearchGate.


Teaching/Advising

 

Applied Data Science Cultural Heritage Informatics Data/Information/Technology Digital Humanities Information Organization User Experience In Libraries, Archives and Museums

Education

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; , M.A., Wuhan University; , B.A., Wuhan University

Expertise

Knowledge Organization and Representation / Thesaurus / Taxonomy and Ontology, Linked Data and Metadata, Database Quality Control, Multilingual & Multicultural Information Processing

Publications

  • Lei Zeng, M. and Mai Chan, L. (2004), Trends and issues in establishing interoperability among knowledge organization systems. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 55: 377-395. doi:10.1002/asi.10387
  • Zeng, Marcia. (2019). Interoperability. KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. 46. 122-146. 10.5771/0943-7444-2019-2-122.
  • Zeng, Marcia & Mayr, Philipp. (2018). Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) in the Semantic Web: A Multi-Dimensional Review. International Journal on Digital Libraries. 10.1007/s00799-018-0241-2.

Awards/Achievements

  • 2016 President’s Faculty Excellence Award
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