Denise Bedford, Ph.D.
Goodyear Professor
Knowledge Management
p: 301-787-5257
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Denise Bedford is currently the Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management at the College of Communication and Information, Kent State University. Her responsibilities include: teaching foundational and elective courses in knowledge management, communities of practice, economics of information, semantic analysis, enterprise architecture, business intelligence, intellectual capital management and information environments. She is currently engaged in expanding the M.A. program and the future Ph.D. program in Knowledge Management, as well as outreach and support to the national and international knowledge management communities. Her current research interests include knowledge architectures and knowledge engineering, business architecture and business rules representation, document engineering and content architectures, multilingual architecture, search system design/architecture, semantic analysis methods, communities of practice, knowledge transfer, and economics of knowledge.
Dr. Bedford retired from the World Bank in 2010 where her responsibilities included development of the Bank’s core metadata and content type strategies, ontologies, taxonomies and the World Bank’s multilingual topic thesaurus, development and operationalization of the Bank’s semantic analysis technologies, enterprise search and content management architectures.
Dr. Bedford’s career also includes: NASA, Intel Corporation, Stanford University, the American Mathematical Association, the University of California, University of Michigan and University of Southern California. She is currently adjunct faculty at Georgeotown University, and University of Tennessee where she teaches a variety of courses in information architecture, knowledge management, systems management, and semantic applications. She provides consulting support to the World Bank, USAID, Unicef, SAIC and other organizations. She is a member of several professional associations including ASIST, ACM, AIIM, SLA, ALA and AAAI. Her educational background includes a B.A. triple major in History, in Russian Language/Literature, and in German Language/Literature from the University of Michigan; an M.A.in Russian History also from University of Michigan; an M.S. in Librarianship from Western Michigan University, and a Ph.D. in Information Science from University of California, Berkeley.
Courses Taught for IAKM
IAKM 60301 - Foundational Principles of Knowledge Management
IAKM 60313 - Strategic Knowledge Management - Virtual Communities
ECON 62015 - Economics of Information
IAKM 61095 - Semantic Analysis Methods
Recent Publications and Presentations
Publications:
Denise A.D. Bedford, "Enabling Personal Knowledge Management with Collaborative and Semantic Technologies," Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 38: 2, 2011, 32-39.
Denise A. D. Bedford, "Using Semantic Technologies to Analyze the Semantic Orientation of Religious Sermons -- A Validation of the Early Work of McLaughlin," proceedings of the first annual Conference on Information and Religion, May 2011, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.
Denise A. D. Bedford, "The Intellectual Capital of Individuals -- Describing and Tracking the Growth of Business and knowledge Capabilities," proceedings of the European Committee on Intellectual Capital, April 18-19, 2011, Nicosia Cyrprus.
Denise A. D. Bedford and Richard LaValley, "Improving Searchable Access to SAS Global Forum Conference Papers Using Semantic Analysis Methods and Text Analytic Technologies," proceedings of the SAS Users Group International Conference, Las Vegas Nevada Paper 162-2011.
Denise A. D. Bedford, "Configuring and Sustaining Enterprise Level Semantic Technologies: How Semantic Applications are Helping Organizations to Achieve Productivity Increases," Analytics, February 2011.
Denise A. D. Bedford, "Text Analytics -- Productivity Gains," SASCOM, Third Quarter, 9-11.
Denise A. D. Bedford, "Configuring and Sustaining Enterprise Level Semantic Technologies: How Semantic Applications are Helping Organizations to Achieve Productivity Increases," SAS Insights, October 2010.
Denise A. D. Bedford, "Developing a Business Oriented Taxonomy for Organizational Project Management, " pp. 237-245 in Knowledge Management in Practice: Connections and Context, ed. Michael D. Koenig and T. Kanti Srikantaiah, October 16, 2010.
Randi Park, Susan Wagger and Denise Bedford, "Lessons Learned in Content Architecture Harmonization and Metadata Models." ASLIB Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, 62: 4/5, 2010, 387-405.
Presentations:
Denise A. D. Bedford, presentation. "The Value of Digital Ecosystems to the Knowledge Economy and Growth of Intellectual Capital," International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, Noveber 21-23, 2011, San Francisco, California.
Denise A. D. Bedford, panelist. “Legal Speaks Greek; IT Speaks Latin - Effective EDiscovery Interactions,” IPQC eDiscovery for Financial Services, February 14-16, 2011, New York, New York
Denise A. D. Bedford, “Knowledge Management and eDiscovery,” Women in eDiscovery Virginia Chapter, January 20, 2011
Denise A. D. Bedford, panelist. “The Role of Standards,” Knowledge Futures Symposium -- Crossing Barriers: Coordination & Standards – Emory University, March 18-19, 2011.
Denise A. D. Bedford, “Integrating and Operationalizing Semantic Technologies in the Enterprise Architecture,” Taxonomy Boot Camp – KM World Conference. Washington DC, November 15, 2010.
Denise A. D. Bedford, “Business Narrative and Storytelling,” Earn Trust - MY PR Series – Post Recession Communications: Facing the New Realities. Kent State University, October 29, 2010
Denise A. D. Bedford, moderator. Role of Online Communities of Practice in Recent Responses to Disasters – Tsunami, China, Haiti and Katrina. ASIS&T 73rd Annual Meeting: Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem, October 22-27, 2010. Pittsburgh, PA. .
Denise A. D. Bedford, “International Development Thesaurus – Moving Collaboration Upstream,” ASIS&T 73rd Annual Meeting: Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem, October 22-27, 2010. Pittsburgh, PA.
Denise A. D. Bedford, “Integrating and Operationalizing Semantic Technologies in Enterprise Architecture,” Data Mining – 2010, Las Vegas NV, October 29, 2010.
Denise Bedford, Howard Geller, Cynthia Hilsinger, Alex M. Wolff, John Christian and Tim Day, “How to Strategically Implement a Successful Digital Supply Chain – Panel Discussion”, Digital Asset Management Conference and Exposition, New York City, September 23-24, 2010.
Learn more about this course in the video presentation from July 9, 2008 featuring Dr. Bedford. It is best viewed in Internet Explorer.
