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GSLIS faculty, students present at JCDL

Stephen Downie
J. Stephen Downie, Professor, Executive Associate Dean, and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center
Tim Cole
Tim Cole, Affiliate Professor

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.

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