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Linked Data Meets Big Data: A Knowledge Oraganization Systems Perspective. The ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Classification Research (SIG/CR) Workshop
Download2014
The objective of this paper is a) to provide a conceptualanalysis of the term big data and b) to introduce linked dataapplications such as SKOS-based knowledge organizationsystems as new tools for the analysis, organization, representation, visualization and access to big data.
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2017-12-01
This lightning strike presentation discusses the idea of considering community contributed and approved metadata to be instances of digital storytelling as it empowers them to use digital means to tell their own stories in the way they wish them to be told. The presentation was given at the...
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Spring 2021
Digital libraries are online environments for organizing, sharing, and providing access to resources in digital form. Ideally, their content, functionality, organization, and metadata should reflect the needs, interests, and contexts of the communities they are meant to serve. Indigenous...
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Open Ideas@UAL 2019 Book of Abstracts
2019-04-05
University of Alberta Libraries
This is the program listing and book of abstracts from the 2019 Open Ideas @UAL is a research symposium that provides UofA libraries academic staff a chance to present their completed and in-progress research. The symposium provides a supportive environment for new and emerging researchers...
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2012
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role of thesauri in search user interfaces across a range of information search and retrieval systems—from bibliographic and full-text databases to digital libraries, portals, open archives, and content management systems. It explores various...
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2017-11-08
Campbell, Sandy, Cockney, Cathy, Shiri, Ali, Rathi, Dinesh, Farnel, Sharon, Maloney, Elaine, Stobbs, Robyn
This overview of the Digital Library North, a project to develop a digital library service within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in northern Canada, was presented at the Indigenous Connectivity Summit held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 8-9, 2017.
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Rethinking Representation: Indigenous Peoples and Contexts at the University of Alberta Libraries
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Farnel, Sharon, Koufogiannakis, Denise, Laroque, Sheila, Bigelow, Ian, Carr-Wiggin, Anne, Feisst, Debbie, Lar-Son, Kayla
This paper describes the Decolonizing Description Working Group at the University of Alberta Libraries, including its genesis and work, final report and recommendations, and followup work done to date.