Panel : Metadata Provenance and Explainability

Inkyung Choi received her MLIS at Syracuse University and PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She served as a teaching assistant professor and taught metadata, linked data, information modeling, information organization at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She currently serves on DCMI education committee and actively engages with members of metadata community worldwide. Her research interests are knowledge organization, metadata, ontology, and linked data.

Jessica Yi-Yun Cheng is an assistant professor at the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her research and teaching focuses on how systems of organization affect the ways data are represented. In her work, she resolves interoperability problems in taxonomies, metadata, ontologies, and other knowledge organization systems (KOSs) in biodiversity and geographic contexts. Her work has been published in JASIST, Journal of Documentation, Knowledge Organization Journal, and she has co-authored a book about provenance metadata.

Anne Washington is a Product Analyst on the Metadata Services Team at OCLC focusing on linked data applications and services. She has over a decade of experience in academic libraries, museums, and archives; with previous roles including Metadata Services Coordinator at the University of Houston, and Metadata Librarian at the University of Virginia. Her work has been published in the Journal of Library Metadata, Library Resources Technical Services, and she co-authored a book on library linked data. Anne received her MLIS at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Josh Falconer is Senior Ontologist at Bloomberg in Princeton, New Jersey. Previously, he was Ontologist at Indeed. For more than a decade, he served in various bibliographic metadata cataloging roles, with a focus on manuscript library collections from the Middle East and North Africa. He has cataloged thousands of Syriac, Arabic, Garshuni, and Ethiopic manuscripts from diverse collections including the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Library of Congress. He holds an MS in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His recent research interests include cognitive linguistics, facet analysis theory, and knowledge representation and reasoning.