“The Temporal Dimension in the Study of Knowledge Bases: Approaches to Understanding Knowledge Creation and Representation Over Time” Melissa Adler, University of Kentucky Corinne Rogers, University of British Columbia Stasa Milojevic, University of Bloomington Jevin West, University of Washington This panel addressed means of exploring change over time in information repositories. The participants all demonstrated […]
Month: November 2013
Dispatches from ASIS&T – Panel on Social Tagging and Reader’s Advisory
“Beyond the Playlist: Looking at User-Generated Collocation of Cultural Products through Social Tagging” Nadine Desrochers, University of Montreal Audrey Laplante, University of Montreal Anabel Quan-Haase, University of Western Ontario Kim Martin, University of Western Ontario Diane Rasmussen Pennington, University of Western Ontario Louise Spiteri, Dalhousie University The panel consisted of several collaborators working on the […]
Dispatched from ASIS&T – Panel on Linked Open Data Dissemination
“Making Publics 2.0: Humanities Data Linked Through a Topical Repository” Eun Park, Qing Zou, Matthew Milner, McGill University Three researchers from McGill talked about their work converting a concluded digital humanities project into a topical repository using a linked data approach. Their goal is to create a viable model for sharable humanities data much like […]
Dispatches from ASIS&T – Panel on Community Metadata
“Spanning Boundaries and Disciplines: Linked, Open, and Cloud-Based Community Metadata” Erik Mitchell and Kanti Srikantiaiah, University of Maryland Susan Rathbun-Grubb, University of South Carolina Heather Lea Moulaison, University of Missouri Jane Greenberg, UNC-Chapel Hill Broadly speaking, this session dealt with initiatives to understand and undertake community metadata projects. Although we can’t capture all of the […]
Dispatches from ASIS&T – Keynote Address
The ASIS&T Annual Meeting opened with a great talk from Jose Garcia, a B.I. and data management specialist at TEC (Technology Evaluation Centers) in Montreal. He discussed the stages of technology creation and adoption: Abstraction: creating an abstract model for the transmittion of information, including innovations like cloud computing that model personal information storage on […]