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MRC Doctoral Students Presenting at MTSR 2020

Metadata Research Center, Drexel University, doctoral students (Xintong Zhao, Deborah Garwood, and Jeremy Leipzig), will each present original research at MTSR 2020–14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research on December 3rd in a session starting at 10:15 AM EST (17:15 EET-Eastern European Time). This year, MTSR is virtual, and REGISTRATION IS FREE FOR ALL.

Metadata Research Center affiliated papers being presented include:

  • Xintong Zhao will present: HIVE-4-MAT: Advancing the Ontology Infrastructure for Materials Science (J. Greenberg, X. Zhao, J. Adair, J. Boone and X. Hu)
  • Deborah Garwood will present: FAIRising Pedagogical Documentation for the Research Lifecycle (D. Garwood and A. Poole)
  • Jeremy Leipzig will present: Biodiversity Image Quality Metadata Augments Convolutional Neural Network Classification of Fish Species (J. Leipzig, Y. Bakis, X. Wang, M. Elhamod, K. Diamond, M. Maga, W. Dahdul, A. Karpatne, P. Mabee, H. L. Bart Jr. and J. Greenberg

To register:

Full conference program is available @: http://www.mtsr-conf.org/programme

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Alice B. Kroeger Distinguished Lecture 2020: James Briggs Murray

On December 3rd, the Metadata Research Center will host an Alice B. Kroeger Distinguished Lecture, featuring James Briggs Murray, Founding Curator (1972-2009) of the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, Schomburg Research Center, at the New York Public Library.

James Briggs Murray

Presenter: James Briggs Murray, Founding Curator (1972-2009),
Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, Schomburg Research Center, The New York Public Library
Title: Understanding and Developing Black Popular Music Collections
Date: Thursday, December 3rd
Time: 4:30-6:00pm EDT
Location: Zoom Registration Link
Participants must register in order to attend.

Abstract: The retired Founding Curator of the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division of The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture uses recorded audio clips to illustrate his three and a half-decade mission to create a comprehensive recorded music collection in a research library setting. The journey begins in West Africa and moves through such globally impactful genres as work songs, blues, spirituals, jazz (in its many iterations), gospel, rhythm & blues, rock & roll, rock, funk, disco, and rap.

James’ presentation harkens back to his 1983 Drexel Library Quarterly article on black music collections.

Citation: Murray, J. B. (1983). Understanding and Developing Black Popular Music Collections. Drexel library quarterly, 19(1), 4-54. 
*Also available in ERIC: ERIC Number EJ300012

Bio:
Among the highlights of his career as a Curator, first and foremost, Mr. Murray, in the mid-1970s, conceived and founded the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division of NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the world’s largest and most comprehensive research library devoted to the preservation of the history and culture of peoples of African descent worldwide.

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