Jenny Benevento

Current

• Controlled Vocabulary Developer at Associated Press

Past

• Project Coordinator and Asst. Prof of Library Administration at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Acquisitions Assistant at Slavic Library, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• Graduate Assistant at Mathematics Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Reed College
• Fenwick HS

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Industry

Information Services

Jenny Benevento’s Summary

I have a background in research and taxonomy development for Internet companies. I have worked in Internet content creation and web design, competitive intelligence, and libraries. My work for online media in the field greatly improves my ability to create information architecture for these same products. My information research and interests are in knowledge organization, particularly classification systems, thesaurus construction, and taxonomies. I bring encyclopedic knowledge, a passion for research, and solutions for metadata wherever I go.

Jenny Benevento’s Specialties:

Excellent background in online, news, business, mathematics, and general research; Traditional library research and reference; Slavic research; Library cataloging; Library acquisitions; User instruction; Metadata creation, aggregation, and normalization; Web design and content creation; Metadata shareability and transformation; Data model creation; Writing user documentation; Incredibly interested in everything; Passion for learning everything new; Technical ability with people skills.

Jenny Benevento’s Experience

• Controlled Vocabulary Developer

  Associated Press

  (Partnership; Online Media industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  I research, define, rationalize and structure concepts into vocabularies that meet business and technical needs, create documentation, perform taxonomy management (including rule-writing and testing), ensure vocabularies are maintained and up-to-date, identify new vocabulary terms, create custom vocabulary solutions for internal and external customers, identify requirements for new vocabularies, and validate taxonomy usability. This position requires heavy usage of SchemaLogic and Teragram software.

Jenny Benevento’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  MS, Library and Information Science, 2004 — 2005

  Emphasis on information organization.

  Activities and Societies:

  Beta Phi Mu; ALA; ASIS&T; SLA; Curriculum Committee

• Reed College

  BA, History, 1997 — 2001

  Thesis on torture and confession in the Moscow Show Trials. Coursework in political science, Russian history and literature, film, torture, confession, and international tribunals.

  Activities and Societies:

  The Quest

• Fenwick HS

  1993 — 1997

Additional Information

Jenny Benevento’s Interests:

Cooking, food science, Soviet History, propaganda, attending other people's churches, conservative christianity as a political and social phenomena, dollar stores, beverages, reading

Jenny Benevento’s Groups:

Beta Phi Mu, Special Library Association, Institute of Information Architecture, Taxocop, International Society for Knowledge Organization, American Society of Indexers, Taxonomies SIG

•    University of Illinois Alumni Association
•    SxSW Library and Info Professionals
•    UIUC GSLIS Students & Alumni

Jenny Benevento’s Honors:

NASIG Award Winner, 2005

Jenny Benevento’s Contact Settings

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