What is a Series, Really? .

Abstract

He employs formal methods to examine issues in the conceptual foundations of information access, organization, and retrieval, especially with regards to web and data semantics, knowledge representation, ontology development, and the creation of conceptual and data models. He is currently working on his dissertation proposal which examines how aggregates are described in library-centric conceptual models and vocabularies. Nathan Humpal has been a Catalog and Metadata Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) since 2013, and was previously employed as a Metadata Librarian at the University of Alabama. He earned his Master of Library and Information Science from UWM in 2009. He has helped promote and operate the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM, including organizing Serious Play, a lecture series dedicated to the academic study of games. Valentine Charles works as a Data Research and Development coordinator at Europeana Foundation. She consults the Europeana Network on data practices and standards and communicates Europeana's R&D activities to the broader cultural heritage sector. She also coordinates the further development and adoption of the Europeana Data Model (EDM). Valentine has chaired and co-chaired various working groups in the EuropeanaTech community such as the Task Force on Recommendations for the Representation of Hierarchical Objects in Europeana. More recently, she became the Co-Chair of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Technical Board and Community Specification Committee.