She is the Principal Investigator the Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios project, a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Advisory Board, and Co-Chair of the DCMI Tools Working Group. Jane was the Principle investigator of the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) project and the Metadata Generation Research (MGR). She master's degree in Library Science from Columbia University and a doctorate in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh.