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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">IFLA WLIC Preconference Satellite Meeting</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Deutsche Nationalbibliothek – German National Library, Frankfurt, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">22 & 23 August 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://2019.ifla.org/cfp-calls/big-data-sig">https://2019.ifla.org/cfp-calls/big-data-sig</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Data intelligence in libraries: the actual and artificial perspectives<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">We are seeking proposals for papers on topics including but not limited to the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Collection and analysis of library operations data (facilities usage, IoT devices, building sensors)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US">Programs which provide access to big data in science projects or government databases<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US">Projects that mine the long tail of scholarly data<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US">Collections as data projects, such as curated heritage and special collections
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US">Data literacy programs and/or data science training initiatives<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US">The professional issues around data science and data librarianship<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US">Infrastructure, frameworks, and applications on which data gathering, cleaning, analysis and visualization can be done<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">We invite you to submit abstracts in MS-Word or PDF format by
<b>15 April 2019</b> to Cory Lampert <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="mailto:cory.lampert@unlv.edu">cory.lampert@unlv.edu</a></span> and Wouter Klapwijk
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="mailto:wklap@sun.ac.za">wklap@sun.ac.za</a></span>. 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">For the full call for papers with submission guidelines and important dates, please visit
<a href="https://2019.ifla.org/cfp-calls/big-data-sig">https://2019.ifla.org/cfp-calls/big-data-sig</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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