Margaret E. I. Kipp's CV

Margaret E. I. Kipp
Assistant Professor
Information Organization Research Group (IOrg)
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

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Research
Teaching
Work Experience: Research
Work Experience: Industry
Academic and Professional Activities

Education

2003-2009 Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, London, ON: PhD in Library and Information Science, Faculty of Information and Media Studies; Dissertation Title: Information Organisation Practices on the Web: Tagging and the Social Organisation of Information (Thesis | Public Talk); Supervisor: D. Grant Campbell; Awards: Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008 (declined)
2002 MLIS, University of Western Ontario, London, ON: Masters of Library and Information Science from the Faculty of Information and Media Studies
1993-1999 BSc, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON: Bachelor of Science with concentration in Computer Science (Honours Computer Science Co-op programme) from the School of Information Technology and Engineering; Awards: Entrance Scholarship, University of Ottawa, 1993

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Research

Research Interests

tagging, classification theory, metadata and indexing
the creation of patterns and structures in information organisation systems
visualisation of patterns in information organisation systems
collaborative or social web technologies and the collaborative creation and dissemination of information
intellectual property and its effects on collaborative information tools and collaborative information dissemination

See my statement of research and teaching interests for a more detailed discussion.

Publications

Journal Articles

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. User, Author and Professional Indexing in Context: An Exploration of Tagging Practices on CiteULike. Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science (forthcoming).

Tonkin, Emma; Corrado, Edward M.; Moulaison, Heather Lea; Kipp, Margaret E.I.; Pfeiffer, Heather D. and Zhang, Qiping. 2008. Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks. Ariadne 54. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue54/tonkin-et-al/

Vaughan, Liwen; Kipp, Margaret E.I., and Gao, Yijun. 2007. Are Co-linked Business Websites Really Related? A Content Analysis. Online Information Review 31(4): 440-450. (DOI: 10.1108/14684520710780403)

Vaughan, Liwen; Kipp, Margaret E.I., and Gao, Yijun. 2007. Why are Websites Co-linked?: The Case of Canadian Universities. Scientometrics 72(1): 81-92. (DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1707-y)

Vaughan, Liwen; Gao, Yijun, and Kipp, Margaret. 2006. Why are Hyperlinks to Business Websites Created? A Content Analysis. Scientometrics 67(2): 291-300. (DOI: 10.1007/s11192-006-0100-6)

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2005. Complementary or Discrete Contexts in Online Indexing: A Comparison of User, Creator, and Intermediary Keywords. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 29(4): 419-436. Preprint available from http://eprints.rclis.org/8379/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2005. Software and Seeds: Open Source Methods. First Monday 10(9). http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1276/1196.

McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.); French, Peggy K.; Goodall, George R.; Kipp, Margaret; Paquette, Darian Lajoie and Pecoskie, Jen. 2004. Covered Beverages Now Allowed: Public Libraries and Book Superstores. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 28(3): 39-51. Abstract available from http://cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2004/mckechnie_2004.pdf.

Conference Papers

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? International Society for Knowledge Organisation Conference, Montreal, QC, August 5-8, 2008. http://eprints.rclis.org/14566/

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. @toread and Cool: Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging. Proceedings of the 36th conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Vancouver, BC, June 5-7, 2008. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2008/kipp_2008.pdf

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Tagging for Health Information Organization and Retrieval. North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO), Toronto, June 14-15, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/11412/

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Tagging Practices on Research Oriented Social Bookmarking Sites. Proceedings of the 35th conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, QC, May 10-12, 2007. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2007/kipp_2007.pdf.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. @toread and Cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion. Proceedings of the 8th Information Architecture Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22-26, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/10445/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Campbell, D. Grant. 2006. Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems: An Examination of Tagging Practices. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, November 3-8, 2006. http://eprints.rclis.org/08315/.

Vaughan, Liwen; Margaret E.I. Kipp, and Yijun Gao. 2006. Why are Websites Co-linked? The Case of Canadian Universities. Proceedings of the 34th conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Toronto, June 1-3, 2006. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2006/vaughan_2006.pdf.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2006. Exploring the context of user, creator and intermediary tagging. Proceedings of the 7th Information Architecture Summit, Vancouver, March 23-27, 2006. http://iasummit.org/2006/files/109_Presentation_Desc.pdf.

Vaughan, Liwen; Gao, Yijun and Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2005. Why are Hyperlinks to Business Websites Created? A Content Analysis. Proceedings of the 33rd conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, London, June 2-4, 2005. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2005/vaughan_2005.pdf.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2004. Cycles of Struggle in Biotechnology: Open Source Methods. Proceedings of the 32nd conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Winnipeg, June 3-5, 2004. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2004/kipp_2004.pdf.

Posters and Short Papers

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2009. Exploring Measures of Inter-Tagger Consistency. SIG-CR Workshop Poster, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://eprints.rclis.org/17218/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2009. Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://eprints.rclis.org/17348/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Columbus, Ohio, 2008. http://eprints.rclis.org/15014/ and http://eprints.rclis.org/11769/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. Tagging for Health Information Organization and Retrieval. Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries 4(1). http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/v4n1/kipp/kipp.html.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Tagging and Findability: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 21-24, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/11769/

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Tagging for Health Information Organisation and Retrieval. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Vancouver, BC, June 18-23. http://eprints.rclis.org/11411/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2006. @toread and Cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion. SIG-CR Workshop Poster, ASIST Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 4, 2006. http://eprints.rclis.org/17669/.

Panels

Kipp, Margaret; Smiraglia, Richard; Jeong, Wooseob; Wolfram, Dietmar and Olson, Hope. 2009. The Power to Tag: Research on the Nature of Tags, Taggers and Ragtag Tagging. Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, December 3rd, 2009. http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/about/news/events/power_to_tag.pdf (Podcast - http://www.sois.uwm.edu/events/pwr2tag/pwr2tag.html | Bibliography - http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/research/IORG/tag_bibliography.pdf).

Pfeiffer, Heather D.; Tonkin, Emma; Millen, David R.; Lindner, Mark R.; Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. Tagging As A Communication Device: The Impact of Communities on Transforming Tag Information. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Columbus, Ohio, 2008. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM08/papers/35.html

Musolff, Meghan; Lauder, Adam; Kwan, Billy; Allen, Laurie; and Kipp, Margaret. Free Association: Social Tagging in Online Collections. Visual Resources Association Conference 2008, San Diego, CA, March 12-16, 2008. http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/sandiego2008/sessions/session1/

Corrado, Edward M.; Kipp, Margaret E. I.; Zhang, Qiping; Moulaison, Heather Lea; Tonkin, Emma; Pfeiffer, Heather D. Tagging and Social Networks: The Impact of Communities on User Centered Tagging. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 21-24, 2007. (Panel co-sponsored by SIG-TAG, SIG-KM and SIG-CR) http://www.asis.org/wiki/AM07/index.php/TagSN

Invited Talks

Tagging and Subject Analysis. Talk given at the School of Information Science, University of Ottawa, 14 January 2010.

Tagging and the Social Organisation of Information. Talk given at the Palmer School of Information Science, Long Island University, 23 September 2008.

Conference Presentations

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? International Society for Knowledge Organisation Conference, Montreal, QC, August 5-8, 2008. http://eprints.rclis.org/14502/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2008. @toread and Cool: Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging. Canadian Association for Information Science, Vancouver, BC, June 5-7, 2008. http://eprints.rclis.org/13789/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Tagging for Health Information Organization and Retrieval. North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO), Toronto, June 14-15, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/11412/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. Tagging Practices on Research Oriented Social Bookmarking Sites. Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, QC, May 10-12, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/11413/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2007. @toread and Cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion. The 8th Information Architecture Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22-26, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/11414/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Campbell, D. Grant. 2006. Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems: An Examination of Tagging Practices. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, TX, November 3-8, 2006. http://eprints.rclis.org/11425/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2006. Complementary or Discrete Contexts in Online Indexing: A Comparison of User, Creator, and Intermediary Keywords. Canadian Association for Information Science, Toronto, ON, June 1-3, 2006. http://eprints.rclis.org/11426/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2006. Patterns in Tagging: An Analysis of Collaborative Classification Practices in Social Bookmarking Tools. Connections 2006 in Syracuse, NY, May 20-21, 2006. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2028/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2006. Exploring the Context of User, Creator and Intermediary Tagging. The 7th Information Architecture Summit, Vancouver, BC, March 23-27. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2029/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2005. Canadian Copyright Law: Perceptions of Creators and Users. Connections 2005, Montreal, QC, May 14-15, 2005. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2030/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2005. Copyright's Impact: A 20 Year Informetric Study of the Library and Information Science Copyright Literature as Indexed in Library Literature. UWO Intellectual Property Workshop, London, ON, January 20-22, 2005. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2031/.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2004. Cycles of Struggle in Biotechnology: Open Source Methods. Canadian Association for Information Science, Winnipeg, MB, June 3-5, 2004. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2032/.

Unpublished Papers

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2005. Copyright's Impact: A 20 Year Informetric Study of the Library and Information Science Copyright Literature as Indexed in Library Literature.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2002. Suzanne Martel, Author Review. http://www.eskimo.com/~meik/uwo/martel.html.

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Teaching

Teaching Interests

Information technology is an important companion to information science. Information scientists need a clear grounding in technological subjects, as well as more traditional information science subjects. Information organisation is an important component of information technology design and information retrieval.

Major teaching interests include: Information Organisation; Database Management Systems; Programming; Web Design and Architecture; Internet Foundations and Technologies; Metadata; Classification; Geographical Information Systems; Social Software; Open Source Software; Information Technology Policy

See my statement of research and teaching interests for a more detailed discussion.

Teaching Experience

2009-Current Assistant Professor: School of Information Studies; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Courses: Organization of Information; Metadata
2007-2009 Instructor (Tenure Track): Palmer School of Library and Information Science; Long Island University; Courses: Introduction to Knowledge Organization (4 face to face, 3 online, 1 hybrid); Information Sources and Services (2 sessions); Passive Website Architecture and Design
2006 Instructor: Faculty of Information and Media Studies; University of Western Ontario; Courses: Programming for Library and Information Science Applications; Database Management Systems

Courses Taught

2010 (Spring - 2 sessions), 2009 (Fall) Instructor: Organization of Information (Graduate), School of Information Studies, UWM: Introduction to basic concepts in the theoretical, practical, and technological aspects of information organization.
2009 (Fall) Instructor: Metadata (Graduate), School of Information Studies, UWM: Principles and application of metadata for networked information resource organization, representation, retrieval, and interoperability using a variety of schemes; focus on cultural heritage digital repositories.
2009 (Summer), 2009 (Spring - 3 sessions), 2008 (Fall), 2008 (Spring - 2 sessions), 2007 (Fall) Instructor: Introduction to Knowledge Organization (Graduate), Palmer School of Library and Information Science, LIU: Introduction to basic principles of bibliographic control and the organisation of information including the design and function of catalogues, indexes, bibliographies, browsers and library standards such as AACR2R, MARC, Dublin Core, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress Classification.
2008 (Fall), 2007 (Fall) Instructor: Information Sources and Services (Graduate), Palmer School of Library and Information Science, LIU: Introduction to the philosophy, process and techniques of information services including an overview of important sources, formats and methods for information access and delivery. Students will learn methods for the evaluation of sources and services and the basics of information seeking behaviour.
2008 (Spring) Instructor: Passive Website Architecture and Design (Graduate), Palmer School of Library and Information Science, LIU: Introduction to designing, building and maintaining Web sites using XHTML and CSS. Students will be introduced to the information architecture and Web usability literature to learn the concepts and measures that may be applied in the evaluation of Web sites.
2006 (Fall) Instructor: Database Management Systems (Graduate), Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO: Introduction to database management systems for library and information science students. Students were taught theoretical concepts related to database design including Entity-Relationship modelling, normalisation, SQL, and client/server architecture (using ODBC). Database management systems covered included Microsoft Access and MySQL. The final project was a web based interface to a database designed earlier in the course.
2006 (Summer) Instructor: Programming for Library and Information Science Applications (Graduate), Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO: Introduction to computer programming for library and information science students, covering the basic elements of computer programming, project design and planning using the python programming language. Included special units on Internet Programming, Databases and ODBC, Graphics and CGI. The final project consisted of designing and writing a library related software application.
2003 (Fall) Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Information Retrieval (Undergraduate), Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO: This course is an introduction to information retrieval for undergraduates. Major duties included marking and running a tutorial section.

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Work Experience: Research

2004 (Fall)-2006 (Winter), 2007 (Winter)-2007 (Summer) Research Assistant for Dr. D. Grant Campbell, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO

Major duties included setting up a Linux server running Fedora Core for use as a research machine to test and analyse semantic web tools and social classification tools. Ongoing duties included performing upgrades; installing and configuring new software.

2004 (Summer), 2005 (Summer), 2007 (Winter) Research Assistant for Dr. Liwen Vaughan, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO

Major duties included the collection of hyperlink and co-link data for various data sets. Additional duties included statistical analysis of data, writing programmes for analysis and data collection, proofing and co-authoring papers.

2004 (Winter)-2004 (Summer) Research Assistant for Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Faculty of Information and Media Studies/Faculty of Law, UWO

Major duties included collection of research materials for a large newspaper study of privacy law in Canada, co-ordination of work by other team members and development of a research and content analysis framework for the study.

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Work Experience: Industry

Skills Summary

Over 5 years experience as a programmer/analyst working in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Experience with Oracle databasing using Java, PL/SQL, C, Perl and UNIX shell scripts in a Solaris/AIX/HPUX/Windows 2000 environment. Experience using HTML/XML, CGI, Java applets and Javascript to produce webpages with embedded technology. Experience with computer maintenance (installation of hardware and networking).

Bilingual (English and French)

2003 (January-April) National Research Council Canada, LS-2 Document Delivery Troubleshooter

Responsible for document delivery and troubleshooting in a highly automated document delivery system with thousands of daily deliveries using Ariel and other document deliver systems.

Provided internal/external client support and user training.

Beta testing of Secure Document Delivery system.

1997 (May-August), 1998 (January)-2001 (December) Autodesk Canada Programmer/Analyst

Projects in the Autodesk GIS Design Server (formerly VISION*) suite of geographic database applications using Java, C, PL/SQL, Perl and UNIX shell scripts in the creation and maintenance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based on Oracle running on Solaris/AIX/HPUX/Windows.

Major projects included (reverse chronological order):

Internationalisation of Autodesk GIS Design Server administrative interface using a double byte test language (Japanese).
Designed and coded the initial user interface for Autodesk GIS Design Server (a GIS database administration product) in Java. Managed other user interface team members.
Implementation of VISION* DX interface, a database conversion tool (team member).
Evaluated Oracle Spatial (Oracle Spatial Data Option) for internal use. Prepared documentation for internal users.
Implementation of VISION* Long Transaction functionality in PL/SQL, a versioning system for Oracle databases (team member). Wrote documentation for the final product.
Benchmarking of code including written documentation on findings.
Developed a demo of Long Transaction functionality in PL/SQL for a user conference (team member).
Research and development activities with the Oracle 8 beta. Prepared documentation for internal users.

1996 (September-December) Newbridge Networks Corporation Software Engineer

Duties included developing report generators using Tcl/Tk and running network tests.

1995 (May-August), 1996 (January-April) Canada Post Corporation, CS-1 Programmer/Analyst

Designed and developed an automated computer system for comparison of address information from complementary sources using C, ODBC, SQL, and batch files. Maintained and upgraded software throughout work terms and trained end users. Wrote conversion programmes as needed for GIS data.

1994 (May-August) Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, Library and Archives Canada

Edited computerised versions of microfiche catalogues using Inmagic and WordPerfect.

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Academic and Professional Activities

Scholarships and Awards: Scholarships; Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008 (declined), $15000 per annum; Entrance Scholarship, University of Ottawa, 1993, $1000 per annum; Awards; Student to CAIS Award, 2006, $1000

Academic Activities: MLIS Standards - Students Committee, UWM (2009-); Palmer Outcomes Assessment Committee, LIU (2007-2009); Palmer IT Committee, LIU (2007-2009); Moodle Pilot Project, LIU (2007-2009); LIS Doctoral Program Committee, UWO (2005-2007)
Professional Activities: Reviewing; Journals; Information Processing and Management, Knowledge Organization, Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science; Conferences; CSCW Conference, HICSS Conference
Academic and Professional Associations: American Society for Information Science and Technology (2005-); Association for Computing Machinery (2006-); Canadian Association for Information Science (2004-); Canadian Library Association (2002-)

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