Texas Center for Digital Knowledge

Dr. Moen’s research focuses on metadata, information representation, and information retrieval in the context of digital repositories. Primary research interests include: information organization, metadata, digital repository infrastructure, information retrieval, technical standards and interoperability, and information policy.

Dr. Moen’s publications and presentations include:

• “Information retrieval protocols: Z39.50 and Search & Retrieve via URL,” forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 2009.
• “Reusing and repurposing learning objects: Issues of granularity in the Texas Course Redesign Learning Object Repository,” 8th MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) International Conference, 2008.
• “The metadata education and research information commons (MERIC): A collaborative teaching and research initiative,” Education for Information, 2007.
• “The semantics of semantic Interoperability: A two-dimensional approach for investigating issues of semantic interoperability in digital libraries,” in Proceedings of the 70th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science, 2007.
• “ Learning from artifacts: metadata utilization analysis,” in JCDL06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2006.
• “Examining MARC records as artifacts that reflect metadata utilization decisions,” First Monday, 2006.

Currently, Dr. Moen is a member of two UNT committees: University Research Committee, Council of Associate Deans for Research; and is co-coordinating a working group to plan a university-wide digital repository infrastructure.

Recent Research and Scholarly Activities

Dr. Moen’s recent research projects and other scholarly activities include:

• High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data, a two-year (2008-2010) project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, $738,000. A collaborative research project with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
• Development of the Texas Course Redesign Learning Object Repository (2007-2009) funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, $378,386.