Metadata Mondays are here. Please mark your calendars and join us to hear about research being led by faculty affiliated with the Metadata Research Center at the College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University.
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MRC Brown Bag Discussion: Assessing Researcher’s Collaborative Quality
On Wednesday, December 2nd, MRC Visiting Scholar Kedma Duarte presented a talk on her research, titled “Assessing Researcher’s Collaborative Quality.” Kedma is a PhD Student in the Engineering and Management Knowledge Graduate Program of Engineering and Management Knowledge at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil.
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DCMI 2015-2016 Technical Advisory Board
The 2015-2016 DCMI Technical Advisory Board has been created to address issues with the DCMI technical infrastructure, including the DCMI website, mailing lists, and various other accounts. Adrian Ogletree, MRC Research Project Manager, is serving as a committee member on the board this year. The current DCMI infrastructure inventory and the future of PURLs have been the main foci of the board so far. If you are interested in keeping up with the group’s activities or joining the group, please email Adrian Ogletree for more information.
MRC Retreat
During October, the MRC hosted a half-day retreat to develop a collaborative, achievable action plan that reflects the strengths and interests of those who would like to help shape the MRC. Attendees included faculty, research staff, and graduate students at CCI who are interested in metadata research and invested in the future of the MRC.
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NCDS Webinar: Assessing the Impact of Software on Science Through Bootstrapped Learning in Full Texts
Erjia Yan, NCDS Data Fellow and Assistant Professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University, gave a webinar during the NCDS Databytes webinar series.
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NCDS Webinar: Toward Machine Oblivious Graph Analysis
Drexel students, professional staff and faculty are invited to watch this NCDS DataBytes webinar at the Metadata Research Center (MRC) on October 6th at noon.
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Public Release: Final Report for 2D and 3D File Format Recommendations
The MRC, in collaboration with Drexel University’s Applied Informatics Group (AIG) and Harvard Libraries, has released its final report for the project “2D and 3D File Format and Metadata Analysis” [link to report]. Harvard Library collections include several thousand 2D and 3D objects representing art, architectural, archaeological, museum, engineering and other objects.
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DCMI 2015
The Metadata Research Center was well represented at the 2015 DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/). Adrian Ogletree and Xia Lin attended the conference in São Paulo, Brazil, and Edward Krause presented virtually.
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DCMI Webinar: From 0 to 60 on SPARQL queries in 50 minutes
Drexel students, professional staff and faculty are invited to watch this DCMI webinar at the Metadata Research Center (MRC).
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Visit to ASTM
Last week, the MRC visited ASTM International in Conshohocken, PA, for a workshop that was part of Drexel’s 2015 Summer Standards Institute. ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. Today, some 12,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance safety, facilitate market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.