by Beth Staats
Quick Summary
Text Mining: Digging Deep for Knowledge
NISO Webinar Series
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Central Time)
(light refreshements will be provided)
Text Mining: Digging Deep for Knowledge
NISO Webinar Series
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Central Time)
(light refreshements will be provided)
Register here
The Semantic Web: What's New and Cool
NISO Virtual Conference
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Central Time)
(light refreshments will be provided)
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Part 1: Emerging Resource Types
NISO Webinar Series
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Central Time)
(light refreshements will be provided)
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Part 2: Emerging Resource Types
NISO Webinar Series
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Central Time)
(light refreshements will be provided)
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About the Wednesday, November 18, 2015, NISO Webinar Series -- Text Mining: Digging Deep for Knowledge
With the digital revolution, the ability to search vast amounts of information for specific bits of data has increased exponentially with more and more previously hard-copy only books and information being digitized and made available online. There are many organizations working to digitize content for the benefit of researchers and others. For example, HathiTrust is a partnership of organizations that offers digitized information from libraries all over the world. Data mining partnerships between university libraries and vendors will hope to bring millions of books and periodicals to the fingertips of researchers.
In this webinar, presenters will talk about the benefits and challenges to text mining and its impact on the library and information community.
About the Wednesday, December 2, 2015, NISO Virtual Conference -- The Semantic Web: What's New and Cool
Everything about information resources and tools seems to be in a transitional state. We are building a new kind of digital information environment, dubbed the Semantic Web. This event looks at a spectrum of approaches adopted in developing semantically-enhanced information resources and provides attendees with a better sense of the rate of speed at which this community is moving to achieve the Semantic Web.
Presenters will talk about the semantic web landscape, the role linked open data plays in this environment, and current projects underway that demonstrate how the semantic web impacts the library and information community, and what experts in the wider communities are doing to achieve those goals.
About the Wednesday, December 9, 2015, NISO Webinar Series -- Part 1: Emerging Resource Types
Big Data is the catch-phrase of the day, and for good reason. It appears that everything is being digitized and as such, huge data sets are now suddenly available to researchers and data scientists. But how do they use all of this data? The idea of having anything we need just a few clicks away is exciting, but when the data is not created in a way that is easily searchable and extractable, access is limited. Additionally, there are issues about ownership, management, preservation, and the rights the library offering it may or may not have regarding access. This webinar will discuss these issues and try to find the happy medium between policy and practicality.
About the Wednesday, December 16, 2015, NISO Webinar Series -- Part 2: Emerging Resource Types
We began offering digital information several decades ago. Today, some of that information has been lost because of the way it was saved. One of the major issues with digital information is creating and preserving it in ways that ensure its availability for generations to come. Unfortunately, this has not always been the case, and there are vast amounts of data that have been preserved but in ways that are no longer readable. This webinar will discuss old technology and the data that is imprisoned on it, and how to set this data free, e.g., how to convert it into formats that render it useful not just to us, but to future researchers.
