machine learning

[Eric Lease Morgan]

Dear Fellow Regional Librarians, we here at Notre Dame are exploring issues surrounding machine learning, and we have drawn up... wait for it... a survey. Please complete it?

http://bit.ly/2Rvm0q4

The purpose of the survey is two-fold: 1) to gauge perceptions of the community, and 2) create a well-balanced in-person workshop scheduled for here at Notre Dame. Your feedback is most certainly desired.

Here is, quite probably, more information than you want to know:

As part of its National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program,
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded
The University of Notre Dame a National Digital Platform Planning
Grant to foster dialogue about the value of machine learning to
facilitate automated metadata creation and classification in
support of cross-disciplinary research. [1] Our grant website
offers more detail about the project and will serves as a resource
for our emerging knowledge as long as the project is active.

As universities increasingly focus on cross-disciplinary
research, the discovery ecosystem can only partially meet
research needs because discovery tools do not semantically
traverse multiple, disparate academic domains. The work to
support cross-disciplinary research is a convergence of
professional concerns — expertise in classification is typically
held by librarians, deep understanding of domain research areas
is owned by scholars, and strong competency in computer learning
and natural language processing is the specialty of computer
scientists.

We will invite domain experts, computer scientists and engineers,
and librarians to attend one of four one-day workshops to raise
awareness of machine learning applications and explore their
possibilities in advancing cross-disciplinary knowledge creation
based on user-centric design principles. The locations are
selected to increase regional participation:

1. Monday, March 11, 2019, Notre Dame, IN
2. Monday, April 1, 2019, Palo Alto, CA
3. Thursday, April 25, 2019, New York, NY
4. Friday, May 31, 2019, Washington D.C.

These one day workshops will comprise a series of brief talks which
showcase machine learning applications in facilitating
cross-disciplinary research, discussions based on
interests/topics, and an opportunity to build a professional
network. Our goal is to build a coalition for the advancement of
knowledge classification practices into the era of machine
learning and artificial intelligence.

If you would like to contribute to the conversation, please
complete the survey. [2]

For even more detail, please see the website. [3]

If you have any questions, then please feel free to contact me directly. 'Make sense?

[1] IMLS Grant - https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-72-18-0221-18
[2] survey - http://bit.ly/2Rvm0q4
[3] website - https://innovation.library.nd.edu/crossdisciplinary-research/


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Eric Lease Morgan
Digital Initiatives Librarian, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
Hesburgh Libraries

University of Notre Dame
250E Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, IN 46556
o: 574-631-8604
e: emo...@nd.edu
w: cds.library.nd.edu