He currently serves as the Interim Director of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge. (see: http://www.txcdk.org/). His teaching and research focus on metadata, networked information organization and retrieval, digital repositories, and interoperability and technical standards. The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded Dr. Moen National Leadership Grants to conduct research on interoperability and metadata utilization in the context of libraries. Dr. Moen was the recipient of the 2005 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology.