Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge: 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2019 Oslo, Norway / COVID-19 Professional Reading

Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge: 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2019 Oslo, Norway, September 9–12, 2019, Proceedings. Editors Antoine Doucet; @antoine_isaac; @koraljkagolub; @traalberg; Adam Jatowt. ISSN 1611-3349 (electronic). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8.  421 pp. COVID-19 Professional Reading.

The "Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries" (TPDL) conference brings together researchers, developers, and data experts in the field of digital libraries. This year’s theme was “Connecting with Communities.” Digital libraries and repositories store, manage, represent, and disseminate rich and heterogeneous data that are often of enormous cultural, scientific, educational, artistic, and social value. Serving as digital ecosystems they provide unparalleled opportunities for novel knowledge extraction and discovery. This year’s conference, TPDL 2019, was held 9-12 September 2019 in Oslo, Norway.

I attended the 2019 TDLP and presented, on behalf of my co-authors, the poster session, “The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Unveiling a World of Knowledge About Life on Earth.” Martin R. Kalfatovic, Grace Costantino, and Constance A. Rinaldo. 

The meeting was very informative with many excellent presentations. Papers of note at the meeting included: 

• Coner: A Collaborative Approach for Long-Tail Named Entity Recognition in Scientific Publications / Daniel Vliegenthart, Sepideh Mesbah, Christoph Lofi, Akiko Aizawa, and Alessandro Bozzon

• The OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard: On Blending Scientific Workflows and Scientific Publishing / Miriam Baglioni, Alessia Bardi, Argiro Kokogiannaki, Paolo Manghi, Katerina Iatropoulou, Pedro Principe, André Vieira, Lars Holm Nielsen, Harry Dimitropoulos, Ioannis Foufoulas, Natalia Manola, Claudio Atzori, Sandro La Bruzzo, Emma Lazzeri, Michele Artini, Michele De Bonis, and Andrea Dell’Amico

• A Framework for Citing Nanopublications / Erika Fabris, Tobias Kuhn , and Gianmaria Silvello

• Who is Mona L.? Identifying Mentions of Artworks in Historical Archives / Nitisha Jain and Ralf Krestel

• Gatekeeper: Quantifying the Impacts of Service to the Scientific Community / Spyke Krepsha and Dongwon Lee

• Can Language Inference Support Metadata Generation? / José María González Pinto, Janus Wawrzinek, Suma Kori, and Wolf-Tilo Balke

• The CSO Classifier: Ontology-Driven Detection of Research Topics in Scholarly Articles / Angelo A. Salatin, Francesco Osborne, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, and Enrico Motta

• Non-Parametric Subject Prediction / Shenghui Wang, Rob Koopman, and Gwenn Englebienne

Overall, an excellent meeting (and proceedings) that covers current trends and research in digital libraries.

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Steps and columns @ the Wilson Library (at University Of North...

Steps and columns @ the Wilson Library (at University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill)


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Getting ready for @SILibraries visits Palm Beach, "a night of discovery "

A visit to the Smithsonian Libraries' STRI Library in Panama

While in Panama for the JSTOR Plants meeting, I took the opportunity to visit with the STRI Library staff. I arrived in the early morning, but there still a number of readers in the main reading room. I met with Vielka Chang-Yau (Librarian) for a while and we talked about a variety of administrative things; the state of the Federal budget, the new online performance evaluation system.

Vielka also showed me where the rogue possum (the Zariguella or Dedelphis marsupialis) took over her office. We then met as a group with the rest of the library staff (Angel Aguirre, Ricardo Beteta, Apolinar Guerrero, and Mr. Santos; Elizabeth Sanchez was on leave that day). We discussed various concerns they had related to ILL (problems with shipping materials to/from Washington); shipping issues related to binding; and other topics. We also made sure to take a group photo with Origami Martha. Vielka was kind enough to drive me back to my hotel and as we were pulling out of the parking lot, an agouti dashed along the sidewalk.

Between the lions again at @NYPL

Librarian of Congress James Billington addressing the @WDLorg dinner

In 1983 Dr Billington spoke at my college graduation.

@WDLorg dinner at the Library of Congress

Neil Bates (@nbates86) from @Europeana talking about marketing digital libraries @ @WDLorg meeting

Sent from my IBM Selectric

@Sarah_Stierch, @WDLorg Wikipedian in residence giving an overview of "why Wikipedia"

@WDLorg director John Van Oudenaren notes that Islamic science could be a focus for the WDL in thematic collections

@WDLorg annual meeting getting started at the Library of Congres

Ismail Serageldin, chair, from the BibAlex

Wikipedia editathon at @SILibraries with @ArchivesAmerArt

Just getting underway at the American Art / Portrait Gallery Library

John Cole starting the Great Library lecture by Nancy Gwinn of @SILibraries at the Cosmos Club

Nancy Gwinn, Director of Smithsonian Libraries, gave the Cosmos Club 'Great Libraries" talk this year on 2 October 2013. It was a great evening with a number of library luminaries in the audience. Gwinn spoke, naturally, on the topic of Smithsonian Libraries. She also covered the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the relationship between the Smithsonian Libraries and the Library of Congress.

More photos here and below the jump.

Olin Library, WUSTL

Smithsonian/DLF DPLA launch meetup kicking off @ Smithsonian Libraries

DPLA, a photo by martin_kalfatovic on Flickr.

>>>> This way!

Blane Dessy presenting the 23rd Stone Lecture at CUA/SLIS

Blane Dessy, currently director of FEDLINK, was the speaker at the 23rd annual Elizabeth Stone Lecture at The Catholic University of America's School of Library and Information Science on 5 April 2013.

A visit to the Seoul Metropolitan Library

While in Seoul for vacation, I had the opportunity for a bus-man's holiday and stopped in at the fabulous (still fresh) new Seoul Metropolitan Library.

In a wonderfully restored former city hall (circa 1926), the facilities were marvelous. Of particular interest were some mysterious self check out machines that looked like microwave ovens. Never quite figured exactly how they worked.




From the website:

The former City Hall, that used to be the center of city affairs, is now coming to citizens as a main library in Seoul. The library offers over 200,000 books, book shelves along 5m-high walls, Disability Collections, and Seoul Documents Collections. It also offers a comprehensive search tool to identify materials among 320 libraries in Seoul.

In addition, the library restored the outer wall, halls, and the main stairway of the former City Hall that had been built in 1926, symbolizing the historical heritage of Seoul. Seoul Library will be the “Information Hub of Seoul and Center of Libraries in Seoul” and “Representative Library in Seoul” that creates and implements programs for the libraries in Seoul.

Nicely restored main entrance staircase:

Lovely open house at the new CLIR offices

Great to see some long ago colleagues and some interesting new people.

Could you've guessed this dumpster is in a library?

What was the giveaway?

Emily Gore talkin' 'bout #DPLA at #alamw13 @NCSCHistory