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ASIST 2022 Workshop: Metadata Analytics Crash Course & Collaboration Capacity Hackathon

Wyndham Grand, Pittsburgh, PA, October 28, 2022

Call for Participation

In this free, two-session workshop, we invite information professionals, researchers and students to learn about and explore largescale metadata analytics and the emerging theory of collaboration capacity. …Read More

What do we do?

The Metadata Lab is a research group at Syracuse University led by Professor Jian Qin that studies a wide range of topics related to metadata with two focus areas: big metadata analytics and metadata modeling and linking.

Big metadata analytics focuses on understanding scholarly communication processes by using metadata from data repositories and other databases as the source to investigate the structures and dynamics…

Metadata modeling and linking is another research area that takes a different approach in examining big metadata residing in data repositories. By tracking and analyzing how research data in different repositories…