Wayne de Fremery

Biography

Wayne de Fremery<span style="font-weight: 400;"> is an associate professor in the School of Media, Arts, and Science at Sogang University in Seoul and Director of the Korea Text Initiative at the Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea in Cambridge, Massachusetts (</span><a href="http://www.koreatext.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">/www.koreatext.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). He represents the Korean National Body at ISO as Convener of a working group on document description, processing languages, and semantic metadata (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 WG 9). Some of his recent research projects have concerned the integration of privately generated textual heritage information into the information management systems of the National Library of South Korea (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Library Hi Tech</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 2020), digital humanities in the iSchool (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">JASIST</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">2021), copy theory (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">JASIST</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">2021), and the use of deep learning to improve Korean OCR, for which he received a national citation of merit from the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.</span>