Jane Greenberg

Jane Greenberg is the Alice B. Kroeger Professor, PhD Program Director in Information Science, and Director of the Metadata Research Center at Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics (CCI). Her research focuses on metadata, knowledge organization, linked data, data science, and information economics. She leads initiatives like the Biology-guided Neural Network (BGNN) project and the HIVE linked data application, with work integrated into the Imageomics Institute and the NSF Dryad Data Repository project.

• PhD, Department of Library and Information Science, 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

Greenberg’s research addresses metadata implementation, ontological ownership, and data sharing ecosystems, contributing to open science principles. Her work includes automatic metadata generation workflows and machine-readable knowledge organization systems.

Scientific awards include:

• 2023 ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award
• 2016 ELATE at Drexel® Fellow
• 2014 Data Science Fellow
• Best Research Paper at Metadata and Semantic Research International Conference (2020)
• Best Student-Led Research Paper at ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2021)

She has secured over $79 million in research funding from organizations like NSF, NIH, Microsoft Research, and the National Library of Medicine. Greenberg founded the Metadata Research Center in 2004 and leads programs such as the IMLS LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING), which trains data science fellows across disciplines.

The Metadata Research Center, under her leadership, has advanced metadata science through projects like the Metadata Capital Initiative (MetaDataCAPT'L) and the Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) linked data project.