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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.

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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CCI Professor Il-Yeol Song has received the DKE Best Paper Award for his 2017 paper, “Big data technologies and management: What conceptual modeling can do.”

The Elsevier journal best paper announcement is available here.

On August 5th, Xintong Zhao, CCI/Drexel University, doctoral student and MRC research assistant (RA), presented her research at the ACM/JCDL 2020 (Association of Computing Machinery/Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) workshop, “Organizing Big Data, Information, and Knowledge.” 

Zhao’s presentation, “Scholarly Big Data: Computational Approaches to Semantic Labeling in Materials Science,” is from research she is conducting in collaboration with team members: the NSF supported Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) initiative, Accelerating the Discovery of Electronic Materials through Human-Computer Active Search. Zhao’s research examines computation and semantic labeling for scholarly big data in materials science. She reported on a baseline comparative analysis she led, comparing the ontology-based automatic indexing with the Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE-4-MAT) application and the MATScholar system, which uses named entity recognition (NER), supported by an RNN (Recursive Neural Network). [presentation slides]

What: Computational Archival Science: A Paradigm Shift Across the Data [Virtual]
When: July 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT, 12:00-1:30 PM EDT
Participation: free/open to all
Registration required for ZOOM link; register @: link

The Emerging Technologies, Big Data & Archives series and the Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI) will co-host a webinar on computing the archives, led by Richard Marciano (AICollaboratory, University of Maryland) and Jane Greenberg (Metadata Research Center, Drexel University). The session will cover graduate student datathon participation, using the Legacy of Slavery data from Maryland State Archives; and AI/machine learning applied to the WWII FDR Presidential Library diaries. The session will also highlight the connection to Drexel’s LEADS program.

Graduate students include:

• Rajesh Gnanasekaran (UMD)
• Alexis Hill: (UMD)
• Phillip Nicholas (UMD)
• Lori Perine (UMD)
• Sonia Pascua (Drexel, 2019 LEADS Fellow)
• Hanlin Zhang (UNC, 2019 LEADS Fellow)

The webinar is co-sponsored by CLIR, and co–hosted by Oklahoma State University Emerging Technologies & Creativity Research Lab, and led by postdoctoral fellows Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture & Azure Stewart, New York University, as part of “CLIR’s Emerging Technologies, Big Data & Archives” series.

On Friday, January 24th, the Metadata Research Center and Drexel CCI hosted the LEADS Forum, a full-day workshop to celebrate the research outputs from two years of LEADS data science fellows, and hear from advisory board members, mentors, early-to-mid-career professionals, and special guests from OCLC and the Library of Congress.

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The Metadata Research Center and Drexel CCI are hosting two events in January to celebrate data science and libraries. Both events are free and open to the public. Space for these events is limited, so register soon!

The Metadata Research Center is hosting a Data Science Foundations Carpentry on January 23rd, 2020 at Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics.

Date: January 23rd, 2020
Time: 8am-4:30pm
Location: 3675 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA
Room: TBA
Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/wevaeju
Event Page: View Here

The workshop will cover:

• GitHub basics
• OpenRefine
• APIs
• Best data practices
• Jargon-busting

The full carpentry abstract is provided below.

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