Wan-Chen Lee

Education

PhD in Information Studies, University of Washington
Master of Science in Information Science, University of Washington
Master of Library and Information Science, University of Washington
Bachelor of Arts in Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University

Bio

Wan-Chen Lee is an assistant professor and a member of the Knowledge Organization Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies. She received her MLIS, MSIS, and PhD at the University of Washington Information School. Her research interests include knowledge organization, culture and resource description, metadata, and classification theory. Fluent in English, Mandarin, and Japanese, Dr. Lee is particularly interested in the challenges and considerations of inclusive data work, which includes designing knowledge organization standards for different cultural contexts. Through document analysis, ethnography, survey, and interview, she addresses the ethical issues, interoperability concerns, and global-local tensions in metadata work, such as cataloging and classification. Recently, she received grants to investigate the challenges and opportunities of AI, and ethical AI and librarianship. Dr. Lee also studies the cultural stewardship of multimedia resources. To support effective description, representation, and retrieval of multimedia resources, she conducts research on the metadata for video games, anime, and fiction. Her work has been published in the Journal of Documentation, Knowledge Organization, and The Library Quarterly. Her research has been funded by organizations like the American Library Association (ALA) and the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute (NMDSI).

Courses Taught

INFOST 511: Organization of Information
INFOST 771: Data curation
INFOST 910: Doctoral Seminar in the Organization of Information

Grants

Principal Investigator, Ethical AI and Librarianship: A Resource Guide. American Library Association (ALA) Carnegie-Whitney Grant (08/01/2024-07/31/2025)

Principal Investigator, Ethical AI: Challenges and Opportunities. Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute (NMDSI) Student Research Scholars Program (07/2024-12/2024)

Principal Investigator, Emoji and Emotion Categories of Fictions. UWM Research Assistance Fund (08/04/2022-06/30/2023)

Sample Publications