GSLIS faculty and students are presenting their research at this week’s Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), held at City University London on September 8-12. The event brings together international scholars focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. The goal is to provide a forum for shared learning and facilitate the application of knowledge for research, development, construction, and utilization in digital libraries.
Papers
"A preliminary evaluation of HathiTrust metadata: Assessing the sufficiency of legacy records"
Presenters include doctoral student Katrina Fenlon and affiliated faculty member Timothy Cole, with Colleen Fallaw and Myung-Ja Han.
Posters
"Exploring Relationships Among Video Games"
Presenters include doctoral students Jacob Jett and Simone Sacchi, with Rachel Ivy Clarke and Jin Ha Lee.
"What Is This Song about Anyway?: Automatic Classification of Aboutness Using User Interpretations, Social Tags, and Lyrics"
Presenters include doctoral student Kahyun Choi and Professor J. Stephen Downie with Jin Ha Lee.
Demonstrations
"When Catalogs Collide: A Mashup Up of the Bibliographic Records from New Zealand's National Bibliography and the HathiTrust"
Presenters include GSLIS affiliate David Bainbridge and Steffan Safey.