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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear all,</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The IFLA Special Interest Group on Big Data and the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) Frankfurt, are pleased to invite you to register for the
 IFLA WLIC2019 pre-conference satellite meeting on “Data intelligence in libraries: the actual and artificial perspectives”.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<span class="s1">The meeting will be held at the German National Library in Frankfurt on 22 – 23 August 2019.
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We look forward to collectively investigate the underlying considerations for administering scholarly, scientific and business data in libraries.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We
 will be doing so from the perspective of both humans and automated agents:</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- the library professional’s ability to derive information and insight from data</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- the machine agent’s dependence on curated data to be able to infer and learn from it through a process of knowledge engineering</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The program amongst others addresses new library data services, collections analysis, data visualisation, data sharing and linking practices, as well as infrastructural
 considerations for administering FAIR data  in libraries. For more information and to register, please visit our meeting website:
<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/wlic2019-big-data">https://sites.google.com/view/wlic2019-big-data</a>.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Registration cost for all attendees is 60 Euro. Provision is made for 120 attendees and registration will remain open until 16 August 2019.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We are looking forward to meeting with you in Frankfurt!</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Wouter Klapwijk</span><span class="s1"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">on behalf of the Organising Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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