Education
- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- From Spring 2004 - present, taking PhD Program at Department of Information Science and Telecommunications.
- working on dissertation related to extending automatic generation of web resource descriptions with social tags
- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- PhD Program at Department of Library and Information Science, 2003
- transfered to Department of Information Science and Telecommunications in Jan, 2004.
- University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba, Japan
- Master's of Information Science, March, 2002
- Master's Thesis on "A Software Development Support System for Metadata Application based on Metadata Schemas"
- Recipient, Itouchu Foundation Scholarship in 2001
- Recipient, Tsukuba International Scholarship in 2000
- Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
- Bachelor's of Library and Information Science, Feb, 2000
- Minor Major in English Language and Literature
- Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan
- As an exchange student, 1999
- Recipient, Takase Scholarship Foundation in 1999
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Professional Experiences
- Archiving Digital Personal Historical Data, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsrbugh, USA
- Self-Research (August, 2007 - present)
- Studing user perception on archiving personal historical data from web-based emails and blogs
- Related Publication
- Sinn, D., Syn, S. and Kim, S. (2008). A Study on the User Perception of Archiving Personal Historical Data from Web-based Emails and Blogs, Work-in-Progress Poster, 2008 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference. January 8-11, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. [Abstract]
- East Asian Library, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsrbugh, USA
- Graduate Student Assistant Librarian (January, 2007 - present)
- Working for Korean Collection
- Collection Development including ordering, receiving, cataloging for Korean Collection using OCLC Connexion and Voyager
- Document Delivery Service (Gateway Service) with a Korean partner library (Korean Institute of Science and Technology, KISTi)
- Ontology Visualization, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsrbugh, USA
- Research Assistant (October, 2006 - present)
- Using Digital Library Ontology from DiLight - Digital Library Project
- YourNews - Personalized News System, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsrbugh, USA
- Research Assistant (January, 2006 - August, 2007)
- RSS News feed aggregator using Java
- Interface Design using JSP and php
- Database Management using MySQL
- Usability Study on User Model
- Related Publication
- Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., He, D. and Syn, S. (2007). Open User Profile for Adaptive News Systems: Help or Harm?, Proceedings of the 16th Intenational Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW2007). May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Canada, pp.11-20. [Abstract] [PDF]
- MR Research Center, University of Pittsrburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsrbugh, USA
- Web System Administrator Assistant (January, 2005 - May, 2006)
- System Programming and maintaining using php
- Database Management using MySQL
- RAPAI(Role Assured Publicly Accessible Information) Project, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsrbugh, USA
- Research Assistant (September, 2004 - May, 2005)
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
- Research Assistant (December, 2000 - March, 2002)
- Data analysis for phonetic recognition system using MATLAB
- Data examination for voice database
- IPL(Internet Public LIbrary)-Aisa, University of Library and Infromation Science, Tsukuba, Japan
- Research Assistant (March, 2000 - December, 2000)
- Data collecting, anayzing and web searching
- Creating metadata based on DC Elements and LOM
- Japan Women's University Main Library, Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan
- Student Assistant Librarian (April, 1999 - December, 1999)
- Building School Libraries Campaign, Korea School Library Association, Seoul, Korea
- Volunteer Librarian and Library Designer(December, 1997 - March, 1999)
- This was a campaign to build better school libraries in Korea. We collected applicants(schools) who want to build a new or better school library and helped them build their own library according to their circumstances. We decided the order to help by their eagerness in building library systems. As precondition all school needed to put their effort to gather partial of libarary collections as basis. We helped with classification, cataloging and building computer systems in library including building spatial architecture and codinating reading programs for children. I worked mostly at elementry schools.
- Department of Library and Information Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
- Department Librarian (March, 1997 - March, 1998)
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Publications
- Syn, S. and Spring, M.B. (Forthcoming). Can a System Make Novice Users Experts?: Analysis of Metadata Created by Novices and Experts with Varying Levels of Assistance, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies.
- Sinn, D., Syn, S. and Kim, S. (2008). A Study on the User Perception of Archiving Personal Historical Data from Web-based Emails and Blogs, Work-in-Progress Poster, 2008 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference. January 8-11, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. [Abstract]
- Syn, S. and Spring, M.B. (2007). Can a System Make Novice Users Experts?: Important Factors for Automatic Metadata Generation Systems, Proceedings of the Intenational Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Application (DC2007). August 27-31, 2007, Singapore, pp.140-150. [Abstract] [PDF]
- Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., He, D. and Syn, S. (2007). Open User Profile for Adaptive News Systems: Help or Harm?, Proceedings of the 16th Intenational Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW2007). May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Canada, pp.11-20. [Abstract] [PDF]
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