Category: News & Events

Great participation at this year’s IEEE Big Data conference (IEEE Big Data), which ran virtually, December 15-18th, 2021.

On Wednesday, December 15, MRC members and collaborators affiliated with the NSF-HDR projects, Accelerating the Discovery of Electronic Materials through Human-Computer Active Search and the new Institute for Data-Driven Dynamical Design project presented two papers: “Fine-Tuning BERT Model for Materials Named Entity Recognition” by Xintong Zhao, Jane Greenberg, Yuan An, and Xiaohua Tony Hu, and “Knowledge Graph-Empowered Materials Discovery,” by X. Zhao, J. Greenberg, S. McClellan, Y. Hu, S. Lopez, S. Saikin, X. Hu, and Y. An.

On Friday December 17th,  Sam Grabus and Jane Greenberg participated in the IEEE Big Data 6^th Annual Computational Archival Science workshop, and presented their paper, “Computational Curation and the Application of Large-Scale Vocabularies,” stemming from work with the 19^th C. and historical vocabularies [Presentation Recording]. LEADING ‘21 Fellows Lencia Beltran and Emily Ping O’Brien, along with LEADING advisory board member, Richard Marciano, also presented on their paper, “A Framework for Unlocking and Linking WWII Japanese American Incarceration Biographical Data,” connected with the Densho collection.

Also, to note, Jennifer Proctor, a LEADING ’21 Fellow, presented a paper, titled “An AI-Assisted Framework for Rapid Conversion of Descriptive Photo Metadata into Linked Data.”

Six LEADING fellows presented at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) membership meeting on December 13th in Washington D.C. The following 2021 fellows presented their project lightening talks: Lencia Beltran, Hyunseung Koh, Emily Ping O’Brien, Jennifer Proctor, Jay Winkler, and Jonathan Young.

Xintong Zhao presented at ASIST 2021 with a paper and panel participation.

The paper, titled “Text to Insight: Accelerating Organic Materials Knowledge Extraction via Deep Learning,” is coauthored with Stephen Lopez, Semion Saikin, Xiaohua Hu, and Jane Greenberg. The paper is available open access: LINK

The panel, titled “Documenting Information Processes and Practices: Paradata, Provenance Metadata, Life‐Cycles and Pipelines,” focused on documentation and description of processes and practices in the information field. The proceedings publication for the panel is available here.

Congratulations to Joel Pepper for winning Best Student Paper at the 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2021). The paper, titled “Automatic Metadata Generation for Fish Specimen Image Collections,” was co-authored with Jane Greenberg, Yasin Bakis, Xiaojun Wang, Henry Bart and David Breen.

Congratulations to the Metadata Research Center, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, on being selected as one of 10 institutions to join a new $15 million NSF effort to harness the power of data science and artificial intelligence to guide materials science research. ⁠

Read more about this exciting news: [LINK]

Congratulations to MRC’s Jeremy Leipzig and Jane Greenberg, along with collaborators Daniel Nüst, Charles Hoyt, and Karthik Ram, on their hot-off-the-press publication in Patterns, titled “The role of metadata in reproducible computational research.” The paper reviews metadata standards that are relevant to reproducible computational research, including input data, tools, reports, pipelines, and publications. This extensive study serves to highlight the significance of metadata for reproducible computational research (RCR), the metadata infrastructure that’s available, and has implications for improving RCR across multiple disciplines.

Leipzig, J., Nüst, D., Hoyt, C. T., Ram, K., & Greenberg, J. (2021). The role of metadata in reproducible computational research. Patterns, 2(9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100322 

Beta Phi Mu has announced the 2021 award winners for the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Among the six recipients is Drexel CCI doctoral candidate Elizabeth Campbell, as well as three 2019 LEADS-4-NDP fellows: Jessica (Yi-Yun) Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julaine Clunis, Kent State University; and Rongqian Ma, University of Pittsburgh. The Metadata Research Center wishes a hearty congratulations to all of the recipients!

The Metadata Research Center participated in NASKO 2021 (North American Society for Knowledge Organization) from July 9-11, 2021.

Congratulations to Sam Grabus for her appointment as ISKO-C/US Program Officer. Congratulations also to Brian Dobreski and Vanessa Schlais for their appointments as President and Treasurer.

Drexel’s MRC had a good showing at NASKO, with two papers: “Modeling Ephraim Chambers’ Knowledge Structure from a Naïve Standpoint,” by Scott McClellan, Mat Kelly, and Jane Greenberg [Slides]; and “A Framework for Facilitating the Development of Data sharing and Use Agreements,” by Micaela Greene, Sam Grabus, and Jane Greenberg [Slides]. The papers will be published open access in the Proceedings from North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization.

Additionally, a shout out to all of the past and present LEADS and LEADING participants who attended NASKO: former LEADS Fellows Jessica Cheng, Laura Ridenour, and Chris Holstrom, current LEADING fellow L.P. Coladangelo, and LEADS/LEADING Project Manager Sam Grabus.