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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
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
Slides
10:30 2. The challenges and opportunities of big and open data for libraries iSchool
John Bertot
Slides
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
Slides
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
Slides
1:30 5. The community as the curator of big archival/cultural data USHMM
Michael Haley Goldman
Slides
2:00 6. Encouraging the community to contribute data iSchool
Jennifer Preece
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
Slides
3:45 8. Graph Databases for Network Analysis: Putting connections first in Humanities data modeling KCL
Mike Bryant
Slides
4:15 9. Visualizing Urban Inequality U. Richmond
Robert Nelson
Slides
4:45 Panel discussion
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