Maria Teresa Biagetti

Maria Teresa Biagetti graduated in Literature and Philosophy at Sapienza Rome University and specialized in Library and Information Science. Currently she is an Associate Professor (permanent position) in Library and Information Science at Sapienza Rome University (Italy); in 2013, she awarded the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR). Previously, she worked as Researcher (permanent position) at the Special School for Archivists and Librarians (SSAB), Sapienza Rome University. She has been member of Examination Committee for public competitions, and member of review panels for the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR). From 1999 until now, she has been a member of ISKO – International Society for Knowledge Organization and took part in many steering committee of international conferences. Her research interests include Theory of indexing, Classifications and Thesauri, Theoretical foundation of knowledge organization, Semantic Web and ontologies.

From 2015 to 2017, she was the principal investigator in the Italian project "Checking the availability of monographs by way of online public catalogues”, funded by the Italian Agency for the evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR). The project aimed at analyzing the sources of indicators for monographs evaluation in SSH. In the field of Evaluation, she recently published a monograph: Valutare la ricerca nelle Scienze umane e sociali. Potenzialità e limiti della Library catalog analysis. Con scritti di Antonella Iacono e Antonella Trombone. Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2017. In February 2019 she held at Sapienza Rome University the STSM about “Ethics of evaluation”, within the Working Group 1, with the aim of examining the ethical aspects of the research assessment.