The talk will present the core mission and purpose of the iSchool Movement International, how this has changed the curriculum, research, branding of our field, and what it means to information professionals and iField. It will present success stories of iSchools worldwide and the main factors of their outstanding achievements.

This is followed by an iSchool approach to data science (DS) capitalizing on the interdisciplinary methods already embedded in our curricula and facilitates opportunities for close-knit collaboration with other campus units. It will focus on what the important building blocks are in creating unique iSchool ‘Data Science’ curricular.

Sam Oh is a professor at Sungkyunkwan University (established in 1398), Seoul Korea and an affiliate professor at University of Washington (UW) iSchool. Prior to joining SKKU, he taught at the UW iSchool for 4 years as an assistant professor. His teaching and research interests include metadata and ontology design, data modeling, data analytics and knowledge management (KM). He has extensive consulting experiences for companies and government sectors in Korea. He is the current chair of iSchools International and gave consultations to many schools desiring to be iSchool members. He chaired TC46/SC9 (Identification & Description) for 6 years and also ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 (Document Description & Processing Languages) for 9 years. He also serves as a chair of DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) governing board. He taught summer classes at the institutions such as Syracuse University, University of Texas Austin, University of Pittsburgh, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.