Jim Hahn

Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)

MS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

CAS, Library and Information Science, Illinois

(217) 333-1031

jimhahn@illinois.edu

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7924-5294

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.

Courses currently teaching

Fall 2023 - Information Modeling - IS515CC

Advisors

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

In the News

iSchool researchers to present at Charleston Conference November 6 2023

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