Margaret Kipp

Margaret E. I. Kipp is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She holds a PhD and MLIS from the University of Western Ontario, and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on social tagging, metadata, semantic web technologies, and information organization systems.

Education:

• PhD, 2009: Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario
• MLIS, 2002: University of Western Ontario
• BSc, 1999: Computer Science, University of Ottawa

Research interests include:

• Metadata design and standards
• Semantic web applications
• Social tagging practices
• Information retrieval systems
• Classification systems

Her recent work explores metadata schemes for cultural heritage materials like Chinese rubbings data, linked data models for libraries, and user behavior in social tagging platforms. She has published widely on topics such as collaborative tagging effectiveness in medical collections and mappings between MARC standards and linked data formats.

Dr. Kipp is affiliated with the Information Organization Research Group and teaches courses in information organization, metadata, and database management.