Publications

Sinn, D., Syn, S.Y., and Kim, S. (under review). Personal Records on the Web: Who's in charge of archiving - Me, Hotmail, or Archivists?

Syn, S.Y. and Kim, S. (2010). The Expected Role of Librarian 2.0 in the Library 2.0 Era, Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 27(2), pp. 201-216. [Abstract] [PDF]

Syn, S.Y. (2010). Generation of Classificatory Metadata for Web Resources Using Social Tags. Jean Tague-Sutchliffe Doctoral Poster Competition, 2010 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference. January 12-15, 2010, Boston, MA. [Abstract]

Syn, S.Y. (2009). Web Resource Categorization Using Social Annotations as Metadata, Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, Winter 2009, 5(3). [HTML]

Syn, S.Y. and Spring, M.B. (2009). Tags as Keywords - Comparison of the Relative Quality of Tags and Keywords, In Proceedings of ASIS&T 2009 Annual Meeting, 46(1). November 6-11, 2009, Vancouver, BC, Canada. [Abstract] [HTML] (first place recipient of the Catherine Ofiesh Orner Award from iSchool at Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Syn, S.Y. and Spring, M.B. (2008). 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, 3(2), pp.122-131. [Abstract]

Sinn, D., Syn, S.Y. 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.Y. 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.Y. (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]

Presentations

Poster Presentation, "Generation of Classificatory Metadata for Web Resources Using Social Tags", Jean Tague-Sutchliffe Doctoral Poster Competition at 2010 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE2010) Annual Conference. Boston, MA. January 12-15, 2010.

Paper Presentation, "Tags as Keywords - Comparison of the Relative Quality of Tags and Keywords", Information Organization: Tags and Frames Paper Session at American Society for Information Science and Technology 2009 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2009). Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 10, 2009.

Paper Presentation, "Web Resource Categorization Using Social Annotations as Metadata", Doctoral Consortium at 2009 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2009). Austin, TX. June 15, 2009.

Poster Presentation, "User Perception of Archiving Personal Historical Data from Web-based Emails and Blogs", Work-in-Progress Poster at 2008 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE2008) Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. January 8-11, 2008.

Paper Presentation, "Can a System Make Novice Users Experts?: Important Factors for Automatic Metadata Generation Systems", Metadata Generation and Integration Paper Session at the Intenational Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Application (DC2007). Singapore. August 27-31, 2007.