Speaker
Wayne de Fremery is currently an associate professor in the School of Media, Arts, and Science at Sogang University in Seoul and Director of the Korea Text Initiative at the Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also represents the Korean National Body at ISO as Convener of a working group on document description, processing languages, and semantic metadata (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 WG 9). Wayne’s research integrates approaches from literary studies, bibliography, and design, as well as information science and artificial intelligence. Recent articles and book chapters by Wayne have appeared in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2021), Translation Review (2021), The Materiality of Reading (Aarhus University Press, 2020), A Companion to World Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), and Library Hi-Tech (2020). Wayne’s bibliographical study of Chindallaekkot (Azaleas), a canonical book of modern Korean poetry, appeared in 2014 from Somyŏng Publishing. Some of his recent research projects have concerned the use of deep learning to improve Korean optical character recognition (funded by the National Library of Korea), for which he received a national citation of merit. Wayne’s degrees are from Whitman College, Seoul National University, and Harvard. |
Jim Cheng has been the director of C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University since 2010, and served in East Asia Library and Law library at University of Washington, the University of Iowa Libraries, and International Relations & Pacific Studies Library and East Asia Collection at the University of California, San Diego. Cheng served as the President of CEAL (Council on East Asian Libraries) 2016-2018. Due to his distinctive and innovative contribution in library collections of East Asian films, holding Film Festivals and symposiums on East Asian films, Library Journal named Cheng as one of the 2008 Movers and Shakers. In 2009, he won the Fulbright Scholar Senior Research Award for his book project in Taiwan Film Studies. His professional activities and academic works involve in library information, digital projects, library special collection development, and film studies. Session A: 08:55-09:10 (AM, KST) "Digital Preservation and Distribution of East Asian Time-Based-Media/ Audiovisual Archival Materials at Columbia University" |
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Marcia Lei Zeng is a Professor of Information Science at Kent State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States of America. Her research interests include knowledge organization systems (taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, etc.), Linked Data, metadata, smart data and big data, database quality control, semantic technologies, and digital humanities. Dr. Zeng has authored over 100 research papers as well as six books. Her research projects have received funding from the NSF, IMLS, OCLC, Fulbright, and other organizations. She has chaired and served on committees, working groups, and executive boards for IFLA, SLA, ASIS&T, NISO, ISO, DCMI, ISKO, and W3C. Currently she is serving as Chair of the Digital Humanities Curriculum Committee of the global iSchools organization, Chair of the DCMI Education Committee, and an Executive Board Member for the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). [Personal home page: https://marciazeng.slis.kent.edu/] Session A: 09:10-09:25 (AM, KST) "Enhancing the FAIRness of the (meta)data in the Korean National Debt Redemption Movement Archive (NDRMA)" |
Kulthida Tuamsuk, (D.A. in Library and Information Science, Simmons College, USA), a Professor and a Senior researcher of the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Director of Smart Learning Innovation Research Center, Khon Kaen University (KKU), Thailand. She is a founder of the Digital Humanities Research Group at KKU. She is internationally well-known as an active committee of international organizations and consortium in Asia Pacific. Her research interests are digital humanities, metadata, ontology, digital learning, and smart learning. Email: kultua@kku.ac.th Session B: 08:40-08:55 (PM, KST) "Digital Humanities Projects on Cultural Heritages in the GMS" |
Jihyun Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at Ewha Womans University in South Korea. Her research interests include researchers’ data sharing and reuse behaviors, archive users’ needs and behaviors, digital curation/preservation, and research data management services. Session B: 08:55-09:10 (PM, KST) "Considerations for supporting the digital continuity of NDRMA collections" |
Ji-myung Kim is senior researcher at the Center for Digital Humanities, Academy of Korean Studies in Korea. She is also the Executive Director of the Korea Heritage Education Institute (http:// heritagekorea.org) since 2010. She received her PhD degree in digital humanities from the Academy of Korean Studies in 2018. Dr. Kim has worked as an adviser for the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation regarding policies on the preservation, restoration and retrieval of cultural heritage from abroad. She has conducted comprehensive survey and critical analysis of narratives on historical figures, events, artifacts at heritage sites and museums Korea. She studied English Literature at Yonsei University (B.A.) and Journalism (M.S.) at the Seoul National University before graduating the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She worked as a staff journalist for the Korea Times. She is the founding chairwoman of the Korea Association of Translation and Interpretation (KATI). She has managed several application document compilation projects for the inscription of Korean cultural heritage on UNESCO’s World Heritage and Memory of the World lists. Her personal research focus has been on creating semantic archives for period 1876-1910, from Korea’s port opening, the tragic assassination of Queen Min (1895), proclamation of the Korean Empire (1897) and annexation of Korea by Japan (1910). She has also been writing columns in the Korea Times on the culture, tradition and modern history of Korea for ten years since May 2011. Dr. Kim’s areas of interest include (1) Data-based history narratives and history writing in the digital age (2) Visualization of knowledge and representations of history (3) Semantic webs and linked open data (4) Biography and prosopography research.
Session C: 08:55-09:10 (PM, KST) "Developing a Cross-domain Ontology for a Useful Semantic NDRM Archives" |
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