Biography
Jane Greenberg is the Alice B. Kroeger Professor and Director of the
Metadata Research Center at the College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University. Her research activities focus on metadata, knowledge organization/semantics, linked data, data science, and information economics. She serves on the advisory board of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and the steering committee for the NSF Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBDIH). She is a principal investigator (PI) on the NSF Spoke initiative, 'A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing,' and the lead PI the Metadata Capital Initiative (MetaDataCAPT'L) and the Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) linked data project. She is also a co-PI for Drexel's NSF Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (NSF-I/UCRC), Center for Visualization and Decision Informatics (CVDI). Her research has been funded by the NSF, NIH, IMLS, Microsoft Research, National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, among other organizational and private sponsors. She has received numerous awards and honors for her research and leadership; most recently she received the
2023 ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award. She was also recognized as a 2016 ELATE at Drexel® Fellow and a Data Science Fellow in 2014 at the National Consortium for Data Science, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Research Areas
- AI, Machine Learning, and Robotics
- Data Science
- Library & Information Science
- STEAM Education
Research Interests
Metadata, ontological engineering, data science, knowledge organization, information retrieval
Academic Distinctions
- PhD, Department of Library and Information Science, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
- MS (specialization in bibliographic control), Columbia University’s School of Library Service
- BA (double major in political science and art history), University of Rochester