Jim Hahn

Jim Hahn

Doctoral Student

PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

CAS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

Other professional appointments

Head of Metadata Research, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Research focus

Syntax, grammar(s), and semantics of knowledge organization structures; contextual uses of language as meaning; the metadata description as a linguistic domain; information retrieval as primarily linguistic activity; development of automation and semi-automation by knowledge workers; community developed and supported algorithms.

Publications & Papers

Hahn, J., & Possemato, T. (2023). The Share-VDE ontology: a BIBFRAME extension for linked data discovery. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8332350

Hahn, J. (2021). Semi-Automated Methods for BIBFRAME Work Entity Description. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 59(8), 853–867. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2021.2014011

Hahn, J. (2021). Publisher References in Bibliographic Entity Descriptions. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 461–465. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.479 

Presentations

Hahn, J., & Dousa, T. M. (2020). Mapping bf:Work to lrm:Work and lrm:Expression: Towards a set‐theoretical approach. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e408. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.408