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Monitoring Wise Civilization By Creating An Index, Andrew Targowski
Monitoring Wise Civilization By Creating An Index, Andrew Targowski
Comparative Civilizations Review
The Wise Civilization Index will assess how wise we are in developing and living in a sustainable civilization.
Recently, people have started to worry about the state of the climate. This has been reflected in the finding that the climate temperature should be kept to a growth of below two degrees Celsius by 2100 to save our species from a slow death (The Paris Agreement of 2015). After all, raising the human body temperature by two degrees threatens illness and even death by four degrees. The same (relatively) can be done with Earth. However, apart from the climate, the problem …
Improving Access To Special Collections By Automating Descriptive Metadata Creation, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour, Betsey Welland, Jessica Breiman
Improving Access To Special Collections By Automating Descriptive Metadata Creation, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour, Betsey Welland, Jessica Breiman
Faculty Publications
Covering today
Background information about Special Collections and Digital Library Services
Overview of ways we are processing data:
- Extracting data from finding aids for item level description in digital collections
- Extracting and Analyzing Names/Subjects in EAD
- EAD to MARC record transform through MARCEdit
- Techniques for working with legacy data
Metadata Managed: How To Clean Data That Is Up To No Good., Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour
Metadata Managed: How To Clean Data That Is Up To No Good., Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour
Faculty Publications
Metadata Problems
- Size of collections –Close to 300 collections, over 2 million items.
- Age of collections – started digitizing in 2000
- Inconsistent training
- Variety of collections means different conventions used for collections from:
- Internal
- external
- Campus Partners
Big Data: Challenges And Opportunities For Digital Libraries, Richard Hacken
Big Data: Challenges And Opportunities For Digital Libraries, Richard Hacken
Faculty Publications
Presented as a Keynote Address to the International Conference on Computing in Engineering and the Sciences in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 30, 2015.
This is an abstract of the speech:
Thanks to technological progress, thanks to the copious Internet, thanks to geometrically burgeoning social media and to quickly proliferating sensors, the flood of data available to us is surging larger and larger, faster and faster. Paradigms for management and analysis are at the core of data-driven businesses and institutions, fueling the velocity of scientific research and development. The phrase “Big Data” was itself coined by scientists as they manipulated exploding …
A Social History Of Technology In Libraries, Richard Hacken
A Social History Of Technology In Libraries, Richard Hacken
Faculty Publications
For the International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies in Tangier, Morocco, on March 22, 2013, I presented a social history of technology in libraries over the past 30 years. In addition I speculated what the future may bring socially and technologically, obviously from my perspective as a librarian.