[Sigdl-l] Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts & Humanities

[DRESSLER, Virginia]

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Presented by the Special Interest Group for Arts and Humanities (SIG-AH<http://www.asis.org/SIG/ah.html>) and the Special Interest Group for Visualization, Images, & Sound (SIG-VIS<http://www.asis.org/SIG/vis.html>) of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T<http://www.asis.org/index.html>)

Wednesday, April 22, 2015: 1-415pm ET/10-115pm PT
Thursday, April 23, 2015: 130-445pm ET/1030am-145pm PT

http://ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu/asistsc/sig-symposium/

SIG-AH and SIG-VIS are pleased to announce a joint Symposium exploring the influence of information and technology in the arts and humanities.

The Symposium will bring together professional speakers and finalists from our student research paper competition <http://ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu/asistsc/studentresearchaward/> to examine a variety of topics. Themes include:

  *   eHumanities/arts and humanities eScience
  *   Digital reference and eResearch discovery platforms
  *   Text/data mining and the use of large-scale corpora
  *   Scholarly communications and digital publishing
  *   Data visualization
  *   The role of information technology in managing images and audiovisual resources
  *   The use of images and audiovisual resources in information practices
  *   Digital Humanities
  *   Technology implementation projects
  *   Research assessment and altmetrics

****UPDATE****
Symposium speakers include:

Sandy Hirsh - President, ASIS&T
Perry Collins - NEH Office of Digital Humanities
Amy Rudersdorf - Digital Public Library of America
Michelle Chen - San Jose State University
Stacy Konkiel - altmetric.com
Erin Fletcher - Ohio State University

A full schedule of speakers - including student finalists - will be released on April 13.


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Virginia Dressler, MA, MLIS
Digital Projects Librarian
University Libraries
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
(330) 672-1465
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