Marcia Lei Zeng is Professor at School of Information, Kent State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Her major research interests include knowledge organization structures/systems/services (KOS), Linked Data, metadata, semantic technologies, and digital humanities. Her scholarly publications consist of more than 90 papers and five books, as well as over 200 national and international conference presentations, invited lectures, and keynote speeches. Her research projects have received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Fulbright Scholar Program, and other foundations. She was an Invited Expert on the W3C Library Linked Data (LOD) Incubator Group and has held office in numerous international library and information science associations. Currently she is serving as an Executive Board Member of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).