Dr Chern Li Liew

Senior Lecturer,
School of Information Management

Introduction

Chern Li's research in progress is on a number of fronts but with evident inter-relationship. Her research interests are motivated by a desire to understand and to enhance user-information (digital objects) interaction in the digital and networked environment. Informing and supporting this key research interest is an ongoing, coherent research programme focusing on:

• The design and usability of digital libraries/information retrieval systems
• Human information interaction
• Digital cultural heritage
• Context-sensitive information seeking and knowledge discovery

A related interest is social informatics theory and applications, particularly those related to the dynamics of socio-cultural contexts.

Chern Li is on the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal of Digital Library Systems, and Online Information Review. She is also VUW/SIM's representative on the Consortium of iSchools Asia Pacific.

Qualifications

BA(Hons), Brighton; MSc, Loughborough; PhD, Nanyang

Administrative Responsibilities

• SIM's representative on the FCA Leave Committee
• SIM Research Committee

Recent Publications

Stanton, K. & Liew, C. L. (Forthcoming) Open access theses in Institutional Repositories: An exploratory study of the perceptions of doctoral students. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal.

Burt, M. & Liew, C. L. (Forthcoming) Searching with clustering. Online Information Review.

Ooi, K. & Liew, C. L. (2011). Selecting fiction as part of everyday life information seeking. Journal of Documentation, 67(5), 748-772.

Liew, C. L. (2011). Help with health information on the Web. The Electronic Library, 29(5), 621-636.

Lim, S. & Liew, C. L. (2011). Metadata quality and interoperability of GLAM digital images. Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, 63(5), 484-498.

Liew, C. L. (2010). Digital libraries for cultural heritage. In Mel Collier (Ed.), Business planning for digital libraries (pp. 195-205). Leuven University Press.

Lim, S. & Liew, C. L. (2010). GLAM Metadata Interoperability. Proceedings of International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) (at the Joint JCDL/ICADL 2010 International Digital Libraries Conference), Queensland, Australia, 21-25 June, 140-143.

Liew, C. L. (2009). Digital library research 1997-2007: Organisational and people issues. Journal of Documentation, 65(2), 245-266.

Francis, K. D. & Liew, C.L. (2009). Policy and protocols for digitised indigenous knowledge in cultural heritage organisations in Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 2009 Annual Meeting: Thriving on Diversity - Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World. 6-11 November 2009, Vancouver, BC, Canada (pp. 37-54).

Liew, C. L. (2009). Towards an evolutionary framework for information retrieval in context. In Proceedings of 3rd International Conferences on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 09), Wrexham, UK 8-11 September (pp. 96-104).