Pre-Conference Workshops
Half-day workshops will start at either 9:00 a.m. or 1:30 p.m.
Code4AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, and its applications are part of our daily lives; More and more Libraries do machine learning too! A Computer Science instructor and a certificated TensorFlow developer will lead this three-hour workshop. Participants will first learn the fundamental knowledge of machine learning and some AI use... more
Time
1:30pm to 4:30pm
Eastern Time
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Hall - A17
Creating Visual Essays with Juncture
The proposed workshop will consist of:
1) A general overview and demo of Juncture (https://beta.juncture-digital.org). Juncture is tool for digital storytelling, consisting of a set of open and free web-based services that enable non-technical users to quickly create engaging visual essays. The new version of Juncture will include web-based authoring... more
Time
9:00am to 12:00pm
Eastern Time
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Hall - A97
Fail4Lib 2023
Everyone experiences failure in their professional lives, but no one likes to talk about it. When we see failure approaching, we distance ourselves, avert our eyes, or – if we’re in its path – brace for the worst. But failure has intrinsic value and is an essential step on the... more
Time
1:30pm to 4:30pm
Eastern Time
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Hall - A97
Getting running with ARK persistable identifiers
In this 3-hour workshop we will introduce you to ARKs (Archival Resource Keys), which can serve as persistent identifiers, or stable, trusted references for information objects (eg, web addresses that don’t return 404 Page Not Found errors). For more than two decades, 8.2 billion ARKs have been created by over... more
Time
1:30pm to 4:30pm
Eastern Time
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Hall - A87
HathiTrust Research Center Extracted Features API and Visualization Workshop
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Extracted Features is a derived dataset consisting of volume metadata and word-level statistical data (aggregated at the page level) that has been extracted from content in the HathiTrust Digital Library. It is presented as JSON-LD files representing a snapshot of the HathiTrust corpus from February... more
Time
1:30pm to 4:30pm
Eastern Time
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Hall - A01
It’s Electric! (How to boogie with a soldering iron, safely)
Do you know Python, C, and Ruby, but don’t know the difference between a transistor and a resistor? Have you ever wanted to create custom electronics for your library or be able to help patrons that want to? Has your library been looking for a way to engage in STEAM... more
Time
9:00am to 12:00pm
Eastern Time
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Hall - A98
Modern Alchemy: Hands-On with the Distant Reader
In this hands-on workshop participants will first learn how to use a system called the Distant Reader to transform sets of unstructured data (like journal articles) into structured data affectionally called “study carrels”. These data sets are amenable to analysis by both people as well as computers. Second, participants will... more
Time
1:30pm to 4:30pm
Eastern Time
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Hall - A98
Solr for newbies
This is an introductory workshop to Solr, the fast and open source search platform that powers a lot of library products. This workshop is geared to anyone that has never used Solr, or uses it but has not explored some of the features that Solr offers out of the box,... more
Time
9:00am to 12:00pm
Eastern Time
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Hall - A17
Text Analysis & Constellate: the technology and the Lab
Constellate offers a comprehensive and easily accessible program that helps your community develop text analysis and data mining competencies, along with related skills, through multiple modes of learning and hands-on application with tens of millions of texts from JSTOR, Portico, and other open source providers. In this workshop Amy Kirchhoff... more
Time
9:00am to 12:00pm
Eastern Time
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Hall - A01