Resume

Education

Post M.S. Certificate of Advanced Study with a concentration in Digital Libraries

Graduate School of Library and Information Science, August, 2008 – August, 2014, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

M.S. Computer Science & Engineering, 1994 – 1996, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

B.S. Computer Science & Statistics, 1989 – 1993, Hansung University, Seoul, Korea.

Minor in Education.

Employment History

International Open Public Digital Library (IOPDL), Inc. President, Since January, 2015. Leading and conducting International Open Public Digital Library (IOPDL) project since 2008: proposing IOPDL model; evaluating existing digital libraries to determine Well-Designed Digital Libraries (WDDLs); developing Common Terminology (CT) to improve interoperability between metadata standards used in libraries; developing www.iopdl.org website for IOPDL project; leading cooperation with national or WDDLs; seeking grants; planning a research project to provide the multilingual services.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Research scholar, May, 2012 – December, 2014. Leading and conducting Common Terminology (CT) Project: developing a CT of MARC, MODS, DC and QDC, developing CT XML/RDF schemas, CT SKOS concepts, Conversions (e.g., MARC to CT, (Q)DC to CT), conducting empirical evaluations of CT performance, and developing www.ct.iopdl.org website for CT project.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Research scholar, May, 2011 – May, 2012. Involving in Transportation Information Management System Project. Research area: best practices of interoperability in transportation information management system.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Teaching Assistant of 'Foundations of Information Processing in LIS' class (Python computer language class), August, 2008 - May, 2012. Evaluated and graded homework, field works, and projects of graduate students giving feedbacks, and improved their programming skills.

Kyungwon University, Engineering Computer Science, Seongnam-si, South Korea. Part-time lecturer, 1999 – 2000. Teaching areas: Visual C++ computer language.

Hanyang Women’s University, Computer Science and Information, Seoul, South Korea. Part-time lecturer, 1997 – 1999. Teaching areas: Computer Introduction, Computer Architecture, Algorithms and Data structures, and the Internet.

Hanyang University, System & Network Management, Seoul, South Korea. Teaching Assistant, 1994 – 1997. Teaching areas: Computer Concept and Architecture, Unix, and computer languages, Data Architecture, and Structured Programming.

College of Junior of Palbong, Computer, Kimpo, South Korea. Full time Teacher, 1992 – 1994. Teaching area: Fortran Computer Language.

Han’s Academy, Seongnam, South Korea. Vice president, 1996 – 2000. Teaching area: Computer and Mathematics for elementary and middle school students, Managements: training teachers and improving quality of classes.

Memberships

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

Papers and Presentations

  • Jin, B. S. (2014). A Model and Roles of a Common Terminology to Improve Metadata Interoperability. Presented Poster & Demonstration at DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core Metadata Applications, Austin Texas, U.S.A, October, 2014, available on http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2014/paper/view/293/270.
  • Jin, B. S. (2014). A Model and Roles of a Common Terminology to Improve Metadata Interoperability. Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS). , available on http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50100.
  • Jin, B. S. (2014). International Open Public Digital Library (IOPDL): A Proposal for the Future. Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), available on http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50101.
  • Jin, B. S. (2014). Evaluating Existing Digital Libraries as a Prototype with the Suggested Criteria: Content, Usability, and Performance Evaluation Criteria. Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), available on http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50102.
  • Jin, B. S. (1996). A Study on a Fast Finite-State Vector Quantizer for Image Compression.

Research Achievements

President, International Open Public Digital Library (IOPDL) Project, International Open Public Digital Library (IOPDL), Inc., Since 2015

  • Proposed, leading, and progressing the IOPDL project.
  • Leading cooperation with Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Europeana, and National Library of Korea, and being provided their metadata with CC0 license or under their license.
  • Forming International Open Public Digital Library (IOPDL), Inc.
  • Planned a research project to provide the multilingual service that lowers the language barrier in sharing the world collections and improves interoperability between multilingual collections.
  • Seeking grants.

Activities include:

  • Proposed and developed an effective model to establish the International Open Public Digital Library (IOPDL) for the future.
  • Published the proposal paper.
  • Evaluated existing digital libraries to discover well-designed digital libraries for the inclusion.
  • Developed Common Terminology (CT) to improve interoperability between metadata standards.
  • Developed IOPDL project website, www.iopdl.org.

Research scholar, Common Terminology (CT) Project, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Since May, 2012.

  • Planned and directed the Common Terminology (CT) project to solve interoperability problems.
  • Collaborated with Harvard Law Library, MIT Library, and UIUC Library.
  • Working under the supervision of Professor Dave Dubin and Dean Smith.

Activities include:

  • Suggested Metadata Interoperability metadata model levels: schema, schema definition language, record, and repository levels.
  • Developed Common Terminology (CT) concepts, an abstract model, and roles.
  • Improved Metadata Interoperability (MI) at the schema level:
    • Developed the CT 1.1 of widely used MARC, MODS and DC & QDC,
    • Improved lexical and semantic interoperability among four different standards,
    • Minimized loss of information reducing significantly the gap of different degrees of generality and specificity,
    • Investigated MARC tag usages of Harvard, UIUC (by designed programs), and WorldCat,
    • Developed crosswalks: MARC to CT, (Q)DC to CT, UIUC(MARCXML) to CT, and MIT to CT.
  • Improved MI at the schema definition language level:
    • Developed CT schemas in XML and RDF forms.
    • Conceptualized CT using SKOS with URIs.
  • To improve MI at the record level to demonstrate the performance of CT:
    • Developed Conversions: MIT (QDC) to CT, and UIUC (MARCXML) to CT.
    • Conducted Empirical Evaluations as a case study with Harvard, MIT and UIUC records.
  • Published and presented the project papers and a poster.
  • Developed Common Terminology website, www.ct.iopdl.org.
  • To improve MI at the repository level:
    • Planed a CT expanded prototype project to build a Linked Data and a single search portal for Harvard, MIT, UIUC, DPLA, Europeana, and National Library of Korea.

Research scholar, Transportation Information Management System Project, GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May, 2011 – May, 2012

  • Investigated interoperability problems in transportation libraries.
  • Developed a crosswalk and a Common Terminology (CT) between National Transportation Library (NTL) and Transportation Research International Documentation (TRID) records.
  • Developed Python programs for experiments of the Direct Mappings between NTL and TRID, and the Indirect Mapping between NTL to CT and TRID to CT, based on Dictionaries and RDF.
  • Demonstrated much better CT performance minimizing loss information than direct mappings.
  • Worked with Professor Gant and Dublin and the teams of GSLIS, and Cambridge Systematics.

Research, Evaluating Digital Libraries Project, GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.

  • Developed evaluation tools and criteria: Content, Usability and Performance Evaluation Criteria.
  • Evaluated sixty-three existing digital libraries in fifteen subject areas:
    • Content quality evaluation for their collections by heuristic method and survey;
    • Usability evaluation: Accessibility, Ease of use, Interfaces’ consistency, and Visual design and Aesthetic Appeal Evaluations by heuristic method and using open sources; and
    • Performance evaluation: Response time and Relevance by simulation programs.
  • Developed effective Python simulation programs for evaluating their performance.
  • Discovered thirty-four well-designed digital libraries that may contribute to the IOPDL.

Research, GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008- 2010

  • Investigated existing interoperability problems in sharing information and working together.
  • Suggested a solution, created and developed a new metadata schema, the Unified Standard Metadata Format (USMF) Schema.
  • Published USMF on the web with XML schema definition language.
  • Created and developed an effective USMF conversion with Python programs- convert metadata described by Simple DC, QDC, MIX, MODS, METS or SMPTE metadata formats into USMF.
  • Created and documented the Unified Standard Metadata Model, USMF DTD, and the USMF Schema Introduction, Primer and Reference Manual.
  • Designed and developed the Metadata Digital Library.
  • Designed and developed the Unified Standard Metadata Format (USMF) metadata Generator.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug. 2008 – May, 2012.

  • Served as course assistant of ‘Foundations of Information Processing in LIS’ (Python language).
  • Demonstrated field work techniques using UNIX on Mac and Windows.
  • Provided intensive assistance to the graduate students who lacked prior experience in programming.
  • Provided weekly individual instruction and guidance through tutoring and mentoring.
  • Lectured on my projects and in the course for making up classes.
  • Evaluated and graded homework, field works and projects of graduate students giving feedback, and improved their programming skills.

Part-time lecturer

  • Taught Visual C++ computer language in Engineering Computer Science in Kyungwon University, Seongnam-si, South Korea, 1999 - 2000
  • Taught Computer Introduction, Computer Architecture, Algorithms and Data structures, and the Internet in Computer Science and Information in Hanyang Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea, 1997 – 1999
  • Designed the course contents, developed course works, and improved quality of classes.
  • Evaluated and graded homework, field works, tests, and projects for undergraduate students.

Teaching Assistant, System & Network Management in Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, 1994 - 1997.

  • Taught Computer Concept and Architecture, Unix, and computer languages.
  • Taught Data Architecture and Structured Programming.

Full time Instructor, College of Junior of Palbong, Kimpo, South Korea, 1993 – 1995.

  • Taught Fortran computer language.

Vice president, Han’s Academy, Seongnam, South Korea, 1996 - 2000.

  • Managed and owned Han’s Academy institution.
  • Taught Computer and Mathematics for elementary and middle school students.
  • Trained teachers and improved quality of classes.

Expertise and Skills

  • Creativity, self-motivation, innovativeness and responsibility.
  • Metadata and Metadata Interoperability:
    • Creating and developing new metadata schema and Common Terminology
    • Building effective Crosswalks
    • Representing CT and new schema in XSD, DTD, and RDF shemas
    • Skilled using XSD, XML, RDF, and SKOS
    • MARC, MODS, Simple DC, QDC, MIX, METS and SMPTE\
    • Harvard Metadata (MARC), MIT (QDC and DC), UIUC metadata (MARCXML)
    • OAI harvesting
  • Programming
    • Skilled in Python in teaching and programming for simulations, finding tag/element usages, conversions, harvesting metadata from OAI, procedure and object oriented programings, etc.
    • Visual C++, C, and Fortran.
    • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix.
    • HTML, Visio, excel.
  • Digital Libraries
    • Developing evaluation tools.
    • Evaluating digital libraries with heuristic method and Survey Monkey tool.
    • Designing web sites or digital libraries.

Awards/Honor

  • Travel scholarship to attend Dublin Core Metadata Initiative International Conference in Austin, Texas, on October 2014, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014.
  • Scholarships as a Research scholar and as a Research, Teaching, and Graduate assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008 – 2014.
  • Scholarship for honor the IOPDL project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2010.
  • Scholarships as a teaching assistant, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, 1994 – 1997.
  • Scholarships for honor students, Hansung University, 1991.
  • Scholarships as an assistant of Professor, Hansung University, 1990 -1991.

License

  • Engineer Information Processing- Human Resources Development Service of Korea.1992.
  • Drive license of State of Illinois.

Community Involvement

  • Volunteering as a president for International Open Public Digital Library (IOPDL), Inc. for 2015.
  • Volunteering as a secretary in own God’s House Church, Since 2011
  • Volunteering and helping the homeless at Restoration Urban Ministry, 2011 – 2012
  • Volunteering teaching the Youth and Vacation Bible School at Rantoul United Methodist Church, 2009 – 2011
  • Volunteering as a treasurer at Champaign Campus Church, 2007 – 2009

Last Modified on October 16, 2015