Sonia Pascua

I am a PH. D. fellow in Information Science at the College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) of Drexel University and a research assistant of the Metadata Research Center (MRC). I hold a masters degree in Computer Science taken from the Department of Computer Science College of Engineering, University of the Philippines (UP) - Diliman. My undergraduate degree is in Bachelor in Library and Information Science (BLIS) taken from the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) of UP. I am one of the faculty of the UP SLIS teaching Cataloguing and Classification, Indexing and Abstracting, ICT in LIS, Analysis and Design of LIS and Programming and Database Structures in LIS. I became the Deputy QMR for 3 years of the UP ITDC’s ISO 9001-2008 Certification and the Deputy Training Manager for 2 years of the same Center teaching Applications Development and IT Business Executive courses like Software Testing, SQA, Software Engineering, SAD and Project Management. My research interests are in metadata and metadata capital, linked data, knowledge organization, software quality assurance, IOT, bibliometrics, and citation analysis. I am working on the standard metadata metric and capitalization for my doctoral cynosure where I aim to quantify the economy of metadata.