Bhattacharyya, Khan, Tracy participate in DLF Forum

Several members of the GSLIS community will participate in this week's 2015 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, held on October 26-28 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hosted by the Digital Library Federation, the DLF Forum is an annual meeting of professionals, students, and scholars working in areas related to digital librarianship.

GSLIS postdoctoral research associate Sayan Bhattacharyya will lead a workshop titled, “The HathiTrust Research Center’s Tools for Text Analysis with Digitized Text from the HathiTrust Digital Library.” The workshop will teach attendees how to use the HathiTrust Research Center’s tools in their own research and teaching.

GSLIS master’s student Nushrat Khan will present her poster, “System Development for Automatic Ingestion of Large Amount of Data and Associated Metadata using REST API—Scope of DSpace.” This work looks at the challenges of using DSpace—a platform for creating digital open access repositories—for publishing and sharing large-scale research data, and presents a system for automating ingestion of metadata.

Interim LIS Librarian Dan Tracy will give a presentation titled, “Library Publishing Services and Their Readers: Trends and Barriers in the Digital Collections We Create,” in which he reports on a survey of library publishers. His findings detail the extent to which these publishers collect and use information about reader needs, preferences, and behaviors, and how this data is used to inform publication design.

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