She received her Ph.D. degree in information science from the Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. She is an Assistant professor at the School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Her current research interests are in metadata, bibliographic data, information organization, government data, and data governance. She can be contacted at email: lichunqiu@bnu.edu.cn.