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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