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Livestream: Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access – Library of Congress, 9/27, 9-5pm
September 27, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Libraries have set up the training below for livestream video attendance from for viewing from Library West Room 419, on Tuesday, September, 27, 2016, 9am-5pm. If you are not in the libraries and interested in attending, please email workshop@uflib.ufl.edu with your name and the event, Collections as Data on 9/27. The registration is to ensure the event is in a large enough room, and to send updates in case there are any changes.
The Digital Humanities Working Group events will soon begin, and emails will be coming soon for those. It’s great to start a new year, and it will be fabulous for current and new folks to all meet soon!
The following live-streamed conference is newly posted to the Staff Development and Training website: http://uflib.ufl.edu/pers/training/training.htm.
Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access – Library of Congress
Tuesday, September, 27, 2016, 8:30 – 5:00 PM, Library West Room 419
The rise of accessible digital collections coupled with the development of tools for processing and analyzing data has enabled researchers to create new models of scholarship and inquiry. The National Digital Initiatives team invites leaders and experts from organizations that are collecting, preserving and providing researcher access to digital collections as data to share best practices and lessons learned. This event will also highlight new collaborative initiatives at the Library of Congress that seek to enhance researcher engagement and the use of digital collections as data.
NOTE: The announcement says the start time is 8:30 am, but the agenda begins at 9 AM.
| 9:00-10:00 a.m. | · Opening Remarks, Jane McAuliffe, Library of Congress
· “Data and Humans: A Love Story,” Jer Thorp (BIO), Office for Creative Research. |
| 10:00-10:45 a.m. | Digital Humanities at the Library of Congress
· National Digital Initiatives, Kate Zwaard (BIO), Library of Congress · Archives Unleashed, Matthew Weber (BIO), Rutgers University · NEH’s Chronicling America Data Challenge, Leah Weinryb Grohsgal, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Deborah Thomas, Library of Congress |
| 10:45-11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00-12:15 p.m. | Working Collections as Data
· “Image-Based Classifier for Detecting Poetic Content in Historic Newspaper Collections,” Elizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln · “Virtual Reunification of Dispersed Archival Photographs,” Ricardo Punzalan, University of Maryland · “Crowdsourcing Oral History Transcripts,” Shana Kimball, NYPL Labs |
| 12:15-1:30 p.m. | Lunch, on your own |
| 1:30-2:45 p.m. | Concerns for Data Scholarship
· “Documenting the Now Project,” Bergis Jules (BIO), UC Riverside · Nicole Saylor, American Folklife Center (BIO), Library of Congress · Maciej Ceglowski, Pinboard |
| 2:45-3:00 p.m.. | Break |
| 3:00-4:15 p.m. | Developing Communities of Practice
· “Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust Digital Library Resources,” Harriett Green (BIO), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · “Synergies Among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture: An Integrated Research and Training Model,” Trevor Muñoz, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities · “5 College Digital Humanities Initiative,” Marisa Parham, Amherst College |
| 4:15-5:00 p.m. | “Collections as Data: Conditions of Possibility,” Thomas Padilla (BIO), University of California Santa Barbara |
Registration Information:
UF Libraries Employees: Log onto the UF Libraries Staff Development and Training website at http://uflib.ufl.edu/its/ using your Gatorlink user name and password and select the enroll button for the workshop(s) you wish to attend. To cancel your enrollment, simply select the Cancel button.
All Other Parties: To enroll please send an email with your name and the name of the course to workshop@uflib.ufl.edu