معرفی
Julaine Clunis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of STEM Education & Professional Studies at Old Dominion University (ODU), affiliated with the Darden College of Education & Professional Studies. Her research focuses on knowledge organization systems, metadata, linked data, semantic web technologies, health informatics, and data science applications in library and information science. Clunis holds a Ph.D. in Knowledge Organization (2022), and dual M.S. degrees in Library and Information Science (2016) and Health Informatics (2016), all from Kent State University.
Her work bridges library science and healthcare through projects like semantic mapping frameworks for clinical coding schemes and pandemic-era health information exchange strategies. Recent publications address legislative impacts on reproductive health informatics and automated semantic integration in healthcare data systems. Clunis has received prestigious awards including the Eugene Garfield Dissertation Fellowship (2021) and multiple IMLS grants supporting LIS education and data science initiatives.
Her expertise includes developing FAIR-compliant data systems, ontology design, and collaborative educational partnerships. Clunis' research emphasizes practical applications such as preschool-library collaborations for family engagement and spatial-temporal analysis of social media sentiment. She contributes to advancing interoperability standards in both library and healthcare domains through semantic web technologies.
