[IRTalk] FINAL WEEK for CfP IFLA WLIC2019 Satellite on "Data intelligence in libraries: the actual and artificial perspectives"

Mon Apr 8 12:18:02 SAST 2019

Dear all,

Please consider submitting an abstract for the IFLA pre-conference satellite meeting on Big Data to be held in Frankfurt, 22 - 23 August. One week remains until close for call for papers:

IFLA WLIC Preconference Satellite Meeting
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek - German National Library, Frankfurt, Germany
22 & 23 August 2019
https://2019.ifla.org/cfp-calls/big-data-sig

Data intelligence in libraries: the actual and artificial perspectives

There is a growing urgency for library professionals to explore the underlying considerations for administering scholarly, scientific and business data in libraries. From an actual or real-world perspective, library managers have a requirement for timely and insightful management information derived from library data generated by the use of online resources and library services. Library professionals need to continuously develop their data skills to enable themselves to be smarter in the use, wrangling, visualization and application of data.
Likewise, from an artificial perspective, machine agents are dependent on good quality data to be capable to infer and learn from it through a process of knowledge engineering. Libraries should leverage opportunities to implement interventions that could facilitate optimal access to reputable scientific data, thereby fostering the knowledge process by making data findable and available to information agents.

We are seeking proposals for papers on topics including but not limited to the following:

  *   Collection and analysis of library operations data (facilities usage, IoT devices, building sensors)
  *   Programs which provide access to big data in science projects or government databases
  *   Projects that mine the long tail of scholarly data
  *   Collections as data projects, such as curated heritage and special collections
  *   Data literacy programs and/or data science training initiatives
  *   The professional issues around data science and data librarianship
  *   Infrastructure, frameworks, and applications on which data gathering, cleaning, analysis and visualization can be done

We invite you to submit abstracts in MS-Word or PDF format by 15 April 2019 to Cory Lampert cory.lampert at unlv.edu<mailto:cory.lampert at unlv.edu> and Wouter Klapwijk wklap at sun.ac.za<mailto:wklap at sun.ac.za>. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and submitters will be notified by 3 May 2019. Full papers of accepted abstracts must be submitted no later than July 15, 2019.

For the full call for papers with submission guidelines and important dates, please visit https://2019.ifla.org/cfp-calls/big-data-sig.

Best,

Wouter Klapwijk
Deputy Director: IT and Digital Services | Adjunkdirekteur: IT en Digitale Dienste
Library and Information Service | Biblioteek- en Inligtingsdiens
Stellenbosch University | Universiteit Stellenbosch
e: wklap at sun.ac.za | t: +27 21 808 4378 |  f: +27 21 808 3723

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