Panel : Conceptual Modeling to Practical Implementation

Athena Salaba, Ph.D., is a professor at the School of Information (iSchool), Kent State University, USA. Her research interests include metadata, knowledge organization systems, subject access, conceptual modeling, and user interactions with information. She was involved in the development of the FRSAD conceptual model serving as a member and secretary of the IFLA FRSAD Working Group, member of the IFLA FRBR and LRM Review Groups, chair of the IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Section, and Board Director of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).

Maja Žumer is Professor of Information Science at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, end-user interfaces, usability and conceptual modelling. She was co-chair of IFLA FRSAD Working Group. As a member of the Consolidation Editorial Group, she is co-author of IFLA LRM (with Pat Riva and PatrickLeBoeuf) and co-author of LRMoo. From 2017 to 2019 she was member of IFLA Professional Committee and Governing Board.

Shigeo Sugimoto received his BE, ME, and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1977, 1979, and 1985, respectively. Until March 2019, he was a full-time faculty member at the Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba (formerly University of Library and Information Science), Japan. Sugimoto first participated in the 4th Dublin Core Workshop in 1997 and has been closely working with DCMI since then. Currently, he is a member of the Governing Board of DCMI. His research interests include metadata models for digital archives that collect intangible cultural and historical entities, such as intangible cultural heritage, cultural/historical events, and transient and dynamic objects.

Trond Aalberg, Ph.D., is a professor in information science at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway and professor in computer science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research interests include metadata, models and ontologies in the context of search and discovery. He has been involved in the development of the LRMoo model (and the previous FRBRoo model), is a member of the IFLA Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM) Review Group and the Norwegian National Committee of Cataloguing.