About
Me (in third person):
Jens-Erik Mai is Associate Professor in the
Faculty of Information at
the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in the
intersection between classification, information, and human activities;
especially in the networked society and for context specific
purposes. He has published on conceptual and methodological
issues in the organization and representation of information; esp.
about semiotics, theoretical frameworks, indexing
theory, domain
analysis, and cognitive work analysis. He teaches courses on
representation of information, classification, design of controlled
vocabularies, and the theoretical foundation of information science.
Jens-Erik is past chair of the
Classification Research SIG of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, and he has
served the International Society for Knowledge Organization as
executive board member and consulting editor of the Knowledge
Organization journal. Jens-Erik served the Faculty of
Information as vice-dean and acting dean and was previously on the
faculty of the Information School of the University of Washington where
he also co-directed the Center for Human-Information Interaction; prior
to that he was a faculty member at the Royal School of Library and
Information Science, Denmark.
Jens-Erik earned his Ph.D. in Library and
Information Science from the
University of Texas at Austin as a Fulbright Scholar and his Master and
Bachelor degrees from the Royal School of Library and Information
Science, Denmark. |
What I have written:
List
and links
What I teach:
INF 1002 Representation, Classification, Representation and
Meaning-Making | Fall 2009
INF 1320 Introduction to Bibliographic Control | Winter
2008 | Winter
2010
INF 2142 Theories of Classification and Knowledge Organization | Winter
2009 | Winter 2010
INF 2144 Subject Approach to Information | Winter
2007
Where
I have been:
Faculty
of Information, University
of Toronto
Associate Professor, 2006 -
Vice Dean, 2006-2009
Acting Dean, Fall 2008
Information
School, University
of Washington
Assistant Professor, 2000-2006
Co-Director, Center for Human-Information
Interaction, 2003-2006
Royal School of
Library and
Information Science, Denmark
Lecturer, 1996-2000
What
I have done:
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, 2000
School
of Information, University of
Texas at
Austin
Master of Library and Information Science, 1994
Royal
School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark
Librarian (Bachelor degree in LIS), 1992
Royal
School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark |
