BIG DATA: Balancing Impacts, Investments and Education
Today, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom at Hyatt at the Bellevue
200 S Broad Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
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Metadata Research Center (MRC) researchers presented at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 10th Plenary Meeting in Montreal Canada, from September 19th-22nd. Drexel doctoral students, Sam Grabus and Kai Li, both RDA Data Share Fellows, presented their research posters on current fellowship progress.
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Assistant Professor Alex Poole has published his paper, “A greatly unexplored area”: Digital curation and innovation in digital humanities, in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. The article can be read here.
Congratulations, Alex!
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“The Discipline of Organizing“, a collectively produced textbook, reflects an emerging discipline that draws upon the intersection library and information science, computer science, business, law, cognitive science, and other endeavors. The book presents a transdisciplinary core, with supplemental content supporting a logical “family of books,” with thousands of siblings. And, any of these siblings could be instantiated in print or as an ebook.
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IS PhD student Sam Grabus presented a poster at the NSF 2017 Joint PI Big Data Meeting, which ran from March 15th-17th in Washington D.C., hosted at the historical Omni Shoreham hotel.
The meeting was an opportunity to bring together PIs and students from all currently-funded NSF Big Data initiatives. The lightning talks and panels outlined progress on projects across all regional hubs and spokes, and identified current challenges.
Here is a full list of speakers and their presentation slides for all 3 days.
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Workshop data/time: March 22, 2017, 1:00-5:30 PM
https://www.conftool.com/iConference2017/sessions.php
Location: Hubei Hall 1, Wuhan University
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First year IS PhD student Sam Grabus and MSLIS grad student Carly Sewell attended the annual Northeast Big Data Innovation Hubworkshop at Columbia University on February 24th.
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