About me

Education

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (USA), Ph.D. August 2016-May 2024

Communication and Information Sciences (CIS) Interdisciplinary Program

Research discipline: HCI-UX research and Information Architecture (IA)

Dissertation title: Designing Usable Knowledge Graphs, The case of an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program

Dissertation supervisor: Dr. Rich Gazan; GPA 4.0

Research methods: Content analysis, semi-structured interviews, usability walkthrough, participatory design, network analysis, topic modeling (LDA)

Oslo University College (Norway), University of Tallinn (Estonia),

University of Parma (Italy) August 2009-May 2011

International Master in Digital Library Learning, Erasmus Mundus (MLIS)

Thesis – Opening Archives to General Public, a data modelling approach (@ ISTI-CNR)

University of Belgrade (Serbia) September 2002-May 2008

Library and Information Sciences BA

Experience

Metadata Librarian (tenure track), Cataloging Department, Hamilton Library, University

of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa March 2025- Present

Responsibilities: supporting library staff and university stakeholders in producing quality metadata for upload to digital platforms; remediating legacy metadata; updating metadata standards, Leading strategic plan action team in charge of improving digital scholarship infrastructure.

Project Manager, Congressional Papers Digitization Project, Hamilton Library, University

of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa October 2024 – March 2025

Responsibilities: creating and supervising the digitization and metadata processes.

Metadata Specialist at Kawaiahaʻo Church Archives January 2024 – March 2025

Responsibilities: designing metadata schema for redescription; managing digital archive.

Research Assistant at Hawaii Digital Health Lab January 2024 – May 2024

Responsibilities: designing and conducting mixed methods study on aspects of humans-in-the-loop in

training machine learning models for digital health (behavioral-disorder diagnosis)

Teaching Assistant/Instructor of Record at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

LIS program August 2018- December 2023

Responsibilities: Designed and taught graduate-level courses: Technology for Library and Information Centers;

Creating Digital Libraries (Omeka S); Digital Librarianship (LibGuides); International Librarianship

Research Assistant for “Premised on Care: Redescription as Restorative Justice in

American Archives”

Responsibilities: Assisting the IMLS funded research project. March 2022-July 2022

Data Analyst/ Online Learning Academy at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa May 2018-Aug 2018

Responsibilities: Conducted the programs’ usage analysis, conducted programs’ evaluation survey analysis and results visualization.

Senior Digital Librarian/National Library of Serbia November 2011- August 2016

Responsibilities: development of multiple e-services (digital libraries, a digital archive, a web archive, national metadata aggregator). Engaged in multiple international digitization projects and collaborations. Lead of the metadata mapping and crosswalk team. Webmaster and social media content creator.

Service

• Digital Library Federation Metadata Working Group Member

• DPLA Metadata Working Group Member

• Association of Hawai’i Archivists (AHA)- Chair of Educational Committee; Website Update Committee

• IASA/SEAPAVAA 2025 (International Conference)- Local Organizing Committee Member

• Member of Editorial Board- Digital Library Perspectives (Emerald journal)

• Reviewer for selected conferences and journals:

– IFLA Journal

– Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (Emerald)

– Journal of Science Theory and Practice (JISTaP)

– Digital Library Perspectives (Emerald)

– Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

– ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)

– Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

– Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)

– Health Professions Education

Previous

• Hawai’i Library Association (HLA)- Director; Archiving Committee Member (2023-2025)

• Association of Hawai’i Archivists (AHA)- 2024 President; Head of Org. Comm. 2024 Annual Conference

• American Library Association (ALA), International Relations Round Table (IRRT) Membership Committee Officer

• Volunteer @ 2023 Conferences: S4 Society for Social Sciences of Science; AHFE

• ASIS&T Special Interest Group in Knowledge Management (KM-SIG)- Membership Officer

• ACM/SIGCHI Volunteer Development Committee – UX Researcher (qualitative), Research report

• Graduate Student Organization, alt representative for CIS PhD program; grant awards reviewer

• EuropeanaTech community member and contributor (2011-2016)

• Conference Organizing Committee: International conference on Theory and Practice in Digital Library (Malta, 2013)

• Collaboration on update of FRBRoo implementation in OWL project with Erlangen-Nurnberg University

Achievements

2025- Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum 2025 Fellow – Emerging Professional Category.

2023– Third place at PACE UH Venture Competition– Team lead for LocaLinQs (venture based on my research);

JCDL Conference Doctoral Consortium scholarship awardee

NISO Plus Scholarship awardee

2022– ASIS&T AI Special Interest Group – workshop scholarship awardee

2022– Received Science of Science Summer School (NSF funded) grant as a research collaboration project lead.

2021– Dan J. Wedemeyer Excellence in Teaching Award 2021-2022, the University of Hawaii at Manoa

2015– One of five recipients of the IFLA/OCLC Fellowship for New Library Professionals (Dublin, OH)

2013– Recipient of the grant to attend LIBER annual conference (Munich, Germany)

2011– One of 18 recipients of Erasmus Mundus Full Scholarship for attending the DILL master program (Norway, Estonia, Italy)

Training

2024 – Digital Powrr Institute – Preserving Digital Objects with Limited Resources

2023 – NSF Innovation Corps (Regional iCorps); Facilitating Community and Organizational Change (workshop)

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

2026- Gardasevic, S., Estell, P., Desiato C., Lamba, M. (2025) Negotiating Voice and Privacy: Doctoral Students’ Perspectives on Participatory Information Systems, HICSS Conference, https://hdl.handle.net/10125/111437

2024 – Gardasevic, S., Jaiswal, A., Lamba, M., Funakoshi, J., Chu, K.-H., Shah, A., Sun, Y., Pokhrel, P., & Washington, P. (2024). Public Health Using Social Network Analysis During the COVID-19 Era: A Systematic Review. Information, 15(11), 690. https://doi.org/10.3390/info15110690

Gardasevic, S. and Lamba, M. (2024), ““It answers questions that I didn’t know I had”: PhD students’ evaluation of an information-sharing knowledge graph”, Digital Library Perspectives, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 493-517. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-02-2024-0025

2023 – Gardasevic, S., & Gazan, R. Community Design of a Knowledge Graph to Support Interdisciplinary PhD Students. Presented at iConference. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_36

2020 – Gardasevic, S. User-Driven Efforts in Creating Knowledge Graph Information System. Digital Library Perspectives 36(2). 2020.: 97–111. DOI: 10.1108/DLP-12-2019-0043

2018 – International Semantic Web Conference 2018 Doctoral Consortium – Poster, Presentation, and Paper (available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2181/paper-04.pdf)

2015 – Glišović, J., & Gardašević, S. Cartographic Collection of National Library of Serbia throughout History until the Digital Present. E-Perimetron. 2015. 10(2), 73–86. LINK: http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_10_2/Glisovic_Gardasevic.pdf

2013 – Gardašević, S. Semantic Web and Linked (Open) Data Possibilities and Prospects for Libraries. INFOtheca, 14(1). 2013. LINK: http://infoteka.bg.ac.rs/pdf/Eng/2013-1/INFOTHECA_XIV_1_2014_26-36.pdf

2012 – Casarosa, V., Meghini, C., & Gardasevic, S. Improving Online Access to Archival Data. Digital Libraries and Archives, 153–162. 2012. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35834-0_16

Recent Conference Presentations

• 2025

• ATALM 2025- “Lessons Learned from Church Archives Digitization Project”

• HLA 2025- with Sueoka, D. and Tangaro, H.- Mapping the Archival Landscape: Insights from the Survey of Historical Records Repositories in Hawaiʻi

• 2024

• ALA Annual Conference- poster presentation: “Knowledge Graph for Academic Libraries”

• ASIS&T Webinar- “Knowledge Graph in Neo4J for Helping Student Success: A Case Study”

• 2023

• iConference – paper presentation “Community Design of a Knowledge Graph to Support Interdisciplinary PhD Students”

• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Doctoral Consortium presentation “Knowledge Graph for Discovery and Navigation: A Case of Interdisciplinary PhD Program”

• 2022

• HLA Annual Conference- Presentation “Library Metadata and Technologies Through Time”

• ASIS&T SIG AI Workshop on AI in the Real World: Strengthening Connections Between LIS Research and Practice– “Knowledge Graph for Discovering Interdisciplinary Research Connections”

• iTeach808 Empowering Hawai’i’s Teachers In Technology Conference –  Tutorial ” Canvas for Teachers- Setting up a course in a free Learning Management System”

• 2021

• Hawaii Library Association (HLA) Annual Conference- Tutorial “Demo of Omeka S – Digital Library Management Software for Cultural Heritage Institutions”, Poster: “CIS Ph.D. Domain Graph Model/Ontology”

Invited Presentations

• 2024

• AHA Workshop- “Metadata for Digital Archives: Case of Kawaiahaʻo Church Archives Redescription and Usage of Omeka.net”

• Research Colloquium for PhD Students at Department of Information Studies, UCLA- “User-Centered Knowledge Graph Design”

• Guest lecturer for an LIS course, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma- “User-Centered Knowledge Graph Design”

• Library Association of Serbia, Fall Forum- “Primena tehnologije Graf znanja/Knowledge Graph u visokoškoliskim institucijama”

• 2023

– Guest lecturer for an LIS course, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – “User-Centered Knowledge Graph Design”

– Library and Information Science, UHM, Research Forum- “Community Design of a Knowledge Graph to Support Interdisciplinary PhD Students”

• 2022

– Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Department of Service and Information System Engineering (ESSI)- Invited talk “Knowledge Graph for Discovery and Navigation: A case of an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program”

• 2021

–DCTE -1st International Online Conference on Digital Transformation in Culture and Education, keynote speaker: “Knowledge Graphs- history, usage, and perspectives”

Knowledge of Software and Syntaxes

Qualitative analysis– NVivo Quantitative analysis– SPSS, R, Gephi, Neo4J

Other software– Omeka and Omeka S (Digital Library), WordPress and LibGuides (CMS), Canvas (Learning Management System), Oxygen, VS Code, GitHub, Protégé (Ontology Management), ChatGPT/Copilot

Syntaxes used– HTML, XML, RDF, OWL, SQL, Cypher, R, JavaScript

Cultural heritage and web metadata models (including mapping)- DC, MODS, MARC, RDA, VRA, TEI, EAD, LCSH

Language Skills

Serbian (Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin) – Native English – Proficient Italian and Spanish – Lower Intermediate

Hobbies & Interests

Holistic healing (Quantum approach & Reiki), 13 Moon Calendar, Ashtanga Yoga practitioner, Chorus singing