In October, second-year Information Studies PhD student Kai Li presented his paper, “Software citation, reuse and metadata considerations: An exploratory study examining LAMMPS,” in collaboration with Dr. Jane Greenberg and Dr. Xia Lin at the 2016 ASIS&T Annual Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark [Paper is available here and slides are available here].
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Information Science to Data Science: New Directions for iSchools Workshop
Information Science to Data Science is a half-day workshop on March 22nd at the 2017 iConference, hosted by the Wuhan University School of Information Management and the Sungkyunkwan University Library & Information Science and Data Science Department. The Information Science to Data Science Workshop is sponsored, in part, by the Metadata Research Center/CCI/Drexel.
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PhD Student Profile: Amy Opalek
In November, Amy attended the AMIA conference in Chicago, where she presented a poster accepted: Informatics in the International Medical School Curriculum: A Pilot Survey.
Earlier this fall, Amy presented at IAMRA‘s 12th International Conference on Medical Regulation in Melbourne, Australia. Her presentation was titled The Challenges of Building a Data Model for the World’s Medical Schools.
Amy Opalek is a second-year PhD student in Drexel’s Information Studies program, studying how metadata standards can confirm the credentials of medical doctors.
She currently chairs the Healthcare Professional Profile working group of MedBiquitous, an organization that develops ANSI-approved standards for the exchange of data in the area of health professions education and regulation.
Final Report and Presentation Slides from the NEBDIH Workshop at Drexel: “Enabling Seamless Data Sharing in Industry and Academia”
The Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBDIH) workshop, “Enabling Seamless Data Sharing in Industry and Academia” was held at Drexel University, September 29-30, 2016. Participants from industry, government, non-profits and other stakeholders gathered to identify challenges and opportunities, and shape discussion toward accelerated data sharing. The workshop was spearheaded by the NEBDIH’s Data Sharing Working Group and interconnected with the Northeast Spokes award, “A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing” (PI Madden, co-PIs Binnig, Greenberg, Kraska, Weitzner) goals, where researchers are developing a safe and secure data sharing platform that facilitates sharing data that may or may not be open or free between different organizations (industry, academia, government). The workshop was sponsored by Computing Community Consortium, with additional support provided by the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub; the Metadata Research Center, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University; and the Gerri C. LeBow College of Business, Drexel University.
Group Photo of Workshop Participants
Final [draft] Workshop Report
Workshop Agenda and Slides (Detailed Agenda)
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome, Introductions and Overview of the Day
- Welcome to Drexel and Introductions – Jane Greenberg (SLIDES)
- Welcome to Drexel – Yi Deng
- Northeast Big Data Hub Introduction – René Bastón (SLIDES)
- Goals of the BD Sharing Spoke and Workshop goals – Sam Madden and Tim Kraska (SLIDES)
9:30 – 10:50 Session 1: War Stories Part I (Session chair: Florence Hudson)
11:20 – 12:00 Session 2: IP, Policy, Legal issues (Session chair: Tim Kraska)
12:00 – 12:20 Introduction of everybody (Jane Greenberg)
12:30 – 1:45 Brainstorming Lunch (Session chair: Sam Madden)
Topic: What are the biggest challenges in sharing data and how can the Sharing Spoke help? Ideas include: Personal Identifiable Information (PII), Restriction of use, Access control, Training, Contribution, Result Sharing, Accountability, etc.
Goal: every group of 5 creates a ranked list of issues.
1:45 – 2:30 Result Presentation: Top Issues (5 min per group)
2:30 – 3:10 Infrastructure Challenges and Opportunities (Session chair: Jane Greenberg)
3:10 – 4:10 Breakout and Coffee: Requirement Gathering (Session: Tim Kraska)
Participants meet at different topic tables derived from topics identified at lunch.
Potential Topics: Personal Identifiable Information (PII), Restriction of use, Access control, Training, Contribution, Result Sharing, Accountability, etc.
Goal: A list of potential options for the data sharing license (e.g., what should the license cover? What is most important?). Each table creates a 5 min presentation per topic. Identify people who are willing to invest in a working group afterwards.
4:10 – 4:40 Presentation of Breakout Results (Session: Tim Kraska)
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016, 8:00 AM-2:30 PM
9:00 – 9:20 Introductions
- Welcome to Drexel, introduce Aleister Saunders – Jane Greenberg
- Aleister Saunders
- Recap of Day 1, Sam Madden (SLIDES)
9:20 – 10:20 Welcome, War Stories II (Session chair: Florence Hudson) (SLIDES)
10:20 – 11:00 Industrial Requirements (Session chair: Jane Greenberg)
11:30 – 11:50 City Perspective (Session chair: René Bastón)
- Amen Ra Mashariki (SLIDES)
12:00 – 1:30 Breakout II: Data Sharing – what comes next? Formation of working groups (Session chair: René Bastón)
Northeast Big Data Hub workshop, “Enabling Seamless Data Sharing in Industry and Academia”
Logistics and Registration information: see below
A 2-day invitational workshop, September 29-30, 2016, sponsored by the NSF Northeast Big Data Hub; the Computing Community Consortium; the Metadata Research Center, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, with generous support from the Gerri C. LeBow College of Business, Drexel University.
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Jeremy Leipzig’s coming talk at Metadata Mondays
Topic: Computational Reproducibility
When: Metadata Monday, May 23, 1:00-2:00 PM
Location: All talks scheduled in Room 213, the Rush Building, Drexel University’s main campus.
Who: Jeremy Leipzig, Bioinformatics Programmer, CHOP and Research Associate/Ph.D. student Information Science/CCI
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Dr. Shigeo Sugimoto’s slides on manga metadata
Dr. Shigeo Sugimoto gave a lecture at MRC about his studies on manga metadata standard and some other research projects at University of Tsukuba on March 18. His slides are shared here.
Dr. Weimao Ke’s slides at Metadata Mondays
Dr. Weimao Ke was generous to have granted MRC to share his slides entitled “Least Information Theory (LIT) and the Search for Representative Terms in Text Data” presented at Metadata Mondays on March 14.
Dr. Erjia Yan’s presentation at Metadata Mondays
Dr. Erjia Yan at College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) of Drexel University made the first presentation in MRC’s Metadata Mondays series on February 1. About 25 people, including faculty members at CCI, librarians, and PhD students, joined and listened to his lecture about using hybrid methods to analyze the impact of software in scientific studies. The participants held active discussions after the presentation.
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Welcome to New MRC Students
We are delighted to announce two new CCI master’s students have joined the Dryad curation team: Vishesh Singh and Juby John. Vishesh is a master’s student enrolled in the MSIS program at CCI. He has a background in electronics and communication engineering. Juby is a master’s student in the Software Engineering program at CCI and brings a rich experience in software QA and documentation.