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Text and Data Mining Work at Virginia Tech University Libraries

Virginia Tech University Libraries have been providing Text and Data Mining (TDM) support within the recent years in multiple ways. TDM work has incorporated many individuals from faculty, students, and librarians, Through a panel of experts, this webinar will describe how TDM work and awareness was established in Virginia Tech’s University Libraries, how students were involved, and how faculty have been involved. The panel discussion will include projects related to the analysis of open access articles in health science, how to identify unique language descriptors from whiskey reviews, implementing TDM in digital humanities, and how the establishment of a committee supports TDM related activities within the library.

7th SIG-III International Café

SIG-III International Cafe has organized its seventh informal meeting to provide these opportunities to all ASIS&T members

Mismatch Finder - Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items

In 2023, Wikidata has more than 100 million data items. Even though the Wikidata community has grown rapidly over the past decade with many libraries linking and connecting to Wikidata, not many people know what to do when there are mismatches between their data and Wikidata’s. In this session, we will take a look at how Mismatch Finder plays an essential role for data re-users and how libraries can benefit from identifying these mismatches. The audience will also get to experience the power of Wikibase in other library Linked Open Data projects, with Wikidata sitting at the heart of the ecosystem.

Out in the Open - How the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Library is Leading Open Science

From data to information to knowledge, the Library at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been at the center of the Open and FAIR initiatives for several years. This presentation will highlight activities led by the Library involving Open Data, Code, and Tools (including data governance, DOI minting, metadata, and repository design), Open Access (journal availability and partnering with our Document Review team), and a unique partnership with our Knowledge Office and Office Of the Chief Engineer. Other initiatives such as the Data Citation Community of Practice, Ethical AI, and the Open Science session at the American Geophysical Union 2021 Fall Meeting will also be discussed. There will be plenty of time for questions and comments, because the presenter really wants to hear what YOU are doing around Open Science.

4th ASIS&T SIG-III Café Meet

SIG-III International Café has organized its fourth informal meeting to provide these opportunities to all its members. We invite all practitioners, faculty and students to join us with your favorite drink.

3rd ASIS&T SIG-III Café Meet

SIG-III International Café has organized its third informal meeting to provide these opportunities to all its members. We invite all practitioners, faculty and students to join us with your favorite drink.

2nd ASIS&T SIG-III Café Meet

SIG-III International Café has organized its second informal meeting to provide these opportunities to all its members. We invite all practitioners, faculty and students to join us with your favorite drink.

Health Information Literacy - Content Creation during the COVID Infodemic

Panelists from five different Asian countries will discuss challenges, strategies and training adopted and imparted for creating accurate and authoritative content. We will share the training imparted to create awareness among primary and secondary students to create and share content. This panel will further address the global challenges of creating multilingual content in forms that are easily accessible and understandable.

1st ASIS&T SIG-III Café Meet

SIG-III International Café has organized its first informal meeting to provide these opportunities to all its members. We invite all practitioners, faculty and students to join us with your favorite drink.

Acceleration of Health Information Literacy

The webinar will highlight how we could accelerate health information literacy for the South Asia region and throw light on the “Health Informatics Project on COVID-19” funded by ASIS&T.

The Carpentries & Author Carpentry

This webinar will provide a brief introduction to The Carpentries instructional philosophy of researcher-to-researcher computational training.