Ayoung Yoon

Ayoung Yoon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Indianapolis. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in History from Ewha Womans University, Seoul.

Research Interests: Her work focuses on data curation, data sharing/reuse, digital preservation, and community-driven data initiatives. She emphasizes building infrastructure to support data reuse in local communities and public libraries, including designing service models for open data engagement.

Awards: She received the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award (2015) for her work on data reuse and trust judgments.

Grants & Projects:

• Principal Investigator (PI) of Developing a Social Service Model in Rural Libraries (IMLS, $498,268).
• Co-PI on Building Public Libraries’ Capacity for Open Data Services (IMLS, $349,498).
• Founder and Director of the Data to Action Lab (2018–2019).

Teaching: Courses include Digital Preservation, Data Curation Management, and Community and Data.