Finding New Knowledge: Archival Records in the Age of Big Data
April 26-28, 2016
College Park, MD
Day 1: Tuesday, April 26 – Presentations Day
| 9:00 REGISTRATION / COFFEE | |||
| 9:30 | Introduction: aims and parameters of the symposium | B. Butler M. Kurtz M. Esteva V. Lemieux M. Hedges R. Marciano |
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| I. Challenges and opportunities of big data for archives, libraries and museums | |||
| 10:00 | 1. Challenges of Developing Museum and Archival Provenance Data | Smithsonian Jane Milosch / Jeffrey Smith |
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| 10:30 | 2. The challenges and opportunities of big and open data for libraries | iSchool John Bertot |
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| 11:00 | 3. Putting the Big in Big Data: How Re-Thinking the Appraisal of Electronic Records Can Facilitate Data Analytics in Digital Repositories | NARA Bob Spangler / Leslie Johnston |
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| 11:30 | Panel discussion |
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| 12:00 LUNCH | |||
| II. Crowds, citizens and communities: public engagement with big data | |||
| 1:00 | 4. Of what are they a source? “The Crowd” as authors, observers and meaning-makers | KCL Stuart Dunn |
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| 1:30 | 5. The community as the curator of big archival/cultural data | USHMM Michael Haley Goldman |
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| 2:00 | 6. Encouraging the community to contribute data | iSchool Jennifer Preece |
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| 2:30 | Panel discussion |
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| 3:00 COFFEE BREAK | |||
| III. Digital methods and technologies: leveraging the value of big data | |||
| 3:15 | 7. Algorithmic Transparency in Digital Curation | UMD Nick Diakopoulos |
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| 3:45 | 8. Graph Databases for Network Analysis: Putting connections first in Humanities data modeling | KCL Mike Bryant |
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| 4:15 | 9. Visualizing Urban Inequality | U. Richmond Robert Nelson |
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| 4:45 | Panel discussion |
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