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GSLIS to make strong showing at JCDL 2015

GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will present their research at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), held at the University of Tennessee on June 21-25. 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.

Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie will present the conference's closing keynote, "The HathtiTrust Research Center: Providing Analytic Access to the HathiTrust Digital Library's 4.7 Billion Pages."

Papers presented at JCDL 2015 include:

"MapAffil: A Bibliographic Tool for Mapping Author Affiliation Strings to Cities and their Geocodes Worldwide."
By Assistant Professor Vetle Torvik. Presented at the International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, held at JCDL on June 24.

"Improving Consistency of Crowdsourced Multimedia Similarity for Evaluation."
By doctoral candidate Peter Organisciak and Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie.

"Improving Access to Large-scale Digital Libraries through Semantic-enhanced Search and Disambiguation."
Authors include Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie.

"The Problem of 'Additional Content'."
Authors include doctoral student Jacob Jett.

"An Ontological Framework for Describing Games."
By Research Associate Professor David Dubin and doctoral student Jacob Jett.

"Building Complex Research Collections in Digital Libraries: A Survey of Ontology Implications."
Authors include doctoral student Jacob Jett, data analysis consultant Chris Maden, GSLIS-affiliated Professor Timothy Cole, master’s student Colleen Fallaw, Senior Project Coordinator for Research Services Megan Senseney, and Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie.

"Topic Modeling Users' Interpretations of Songs to Inform Subject Access in Music Digital Libraries."
Authors include doctoral students Kahyun Choi and Craig Willis, and Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie.

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