Koraljka Golub
Koraljka Golub is Professor of Library and Information Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden, where she heads the iInstitute, the university’s iSchool, and co-leads the Digital Humanities Centre. She is also the national coordinator for DARIAH-SE. Her research focuses on digital libraries and information retrieval, with particular emphasis on knowledge organisation, automated subject indexing and artificial intelligence, controlled vocabularies, social tagging, and subject-search interfaces. Recent work has addressed AI-supported knowledge organisation, subject access to cultural heritage and humanities resources, and the representation and indexing of Swedish LGBTQ+ fiction. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the iSchools Organization and of the International Society for Knowledge Organization’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Council.
Three of her major research projects from the past are:
- EASTER (EASTER | Project Home Page) which dealt with the evaluation of algorithms for automated subject classification and indexing in the context of information retrieval;
- EnTag (Enhanced Tagging for Discovery (EnTag) | Home Page), on the potential of combining social tagging with Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress Subject Headings; and,
- TRSS (Terminology Registry Scoping Study | Home Page), a scoping study of terminology registries for UK’s further and higher education needs.
She works as an associate professor at the Department of Library and Information Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University (Linnéuniversitetet | lnu.se). She also serves as an adjunct at the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University (School of Information and Communication Studies), Australia. For over five years in the recent past she worked as an information science researcher at UKOLN, University of Bath (UKOLN), United Kingdom.
Her educational background covers technology, social sciences and humanities. In 2007 she obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of Information Technology, Lund University (Lund University), Sweden, on the topic of automated subject classification. Her earlier degrees are from the Department of Information Sciences and the Department of English, University of Zagreb (UniZG), Croatia.
CV updated on 2026-09-15.