Speaker: Shigeo Sugimoto, Professor, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies,
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Time: Thursday, March 8th, 1:00 PM
Location: Rush 014
Topic: Metadata research at Tsukuba – Metadata Permanence, Cultural Heritage and Pop-Culture
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Speaker: Dot Porter, Curator of Digital Research Services, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Time: Tuesday February 27, 4-5 pm
Location: University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library, 6th floor, Room 623.
Topic: Dot demonstrated up-close, very cool technologies being used to examine and digitize medieval and early modern manuscripts, as well as create machine-readable descriptive and technical metadata. Dot facilitated a group discussion on how libraries and archives can play a fundamental role in teaching digital humanities.
Celebrating LOVE Data Week….
Time: Tuesday, February 13th, 4-5pm
Location: Rush 006 (basement)
Time: Tuesday February 6, at 4PM
Location: Rush 006
Speaker: Andrew R. Cohen
Title: Combining human insight and algorithmic tenacity to make compelling movies of cancer, development and aging
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BYOL (“Bring your own lunch”) gathering and informal discussion with Jacob Kramer-Duffield. Changes in the media landscape have led to changes in how media companies think about and measure their audiences. These changes have implications for what content is created, how audiences experience it, and how it is organized and found.
When: Thursday, January 11, 12:00-1:00 PM
Where: 231 Rush Building MRC (Metadata Research Center)
Doctoral students Sam Grabus and Amy Opalek traveled to Tallinn, Estonia, presented their research at the 11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, at Tallinn University, from November 28th to December 1st.
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LIS Education and Data Science-for-the National Digital Platform (LEADS-4-NDP) will provide stipends for 18 library and information science doctoral students across the country who will complete an online preparatory curriculum, an intensive three-day data science boot camp at Drexel University, and a ten-week immersive data science research experience. Read more from Drexel CCI.
Graduate Research Assistant Chloe Rotman will attend the Trans-Atlantic Symposium on Public Private Partnerships for Big Data Research and Innovation and Workforce Development in Versailles, France on Monday, November 20th.
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Jane Greenberg will be presenting her keynote, “Sharing Restricted Data: Challenges, Protocols and Implications for Digital Libraries” tomorrow, November 14th, at the joint 8th A-LIEP Conference/19th ICADL Conference,in Thailand.
Her presentation will examine the challenges associated with sharing restricted data between industry and academia, and consider the role of digital libraries in addressing current obstacles. She will highlight the work being pursed through “A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing” initiative, the NSF Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEHDIH) Spoke data sharing initiative.
