An introductory review of the research relevant to the question- Can the high-level semantic descriptions of motion pictures found in existing systems serve the exploratory needs of the film discourse community?
DJ Spooky (Paul Miller) talks about the history of media and thoughts about media in culture. He discusses and demonstrates the unexpected side effects of free speech, law, and copyright while showing the power of remixed art. The future and meaning of remix culture is discussed.
Bob Sutor discusses the effect of open source and open standards on innovation and markets. Specific topics include the effects of open source alternatives on software markets, open standards and interoperability, the new social aspect of software and the open source community.
danah boyd gives an impromptu talk on the development and applications of social networking on the WWW with particular emphasis on young adults and implications for personal relationships. Includes Q and A session.
Chancellor-Elect Holden Thorp speaks at a celebration reception for the campus community in Gerrard Hall after the UNC Board of Governors' election on May 8, 2008.
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Dr. Cal Lee, Assistant Professor in SILS, presents a lecture on digital curation, the risks of not planning for preservation, digital archaeology, data exercise, emulation versus transformation, the need for standards and a hybrid approach to preservation.
Scott Adams, Director of Information Technology at SILS discusses challenges of supporting both instructional and research laboratories and trends in IT support for information-intensiv e schools. Challenges in keeping up with evolving expectations of students and faculty.
Gary Marchionini lectures in the Human-Information Interaction course on the four kinds of information (thing, thought, action, proflection), and on distinctions among information, communication, and interaction.
Professor Ken Bollen, Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science discusses the roles that surveys and statistical data play in policy making. Bollen has developed and applied structural equation modeling to explain complex social constructs such as democracy.
Eben Moglen gives a talk about the rise of free information, the problems with current copyright laws, and how various powers are conspiring to keep free information from becoming reality.
Professor Stephanie Haas discusses natural language processing with an emphasis on sublanguages and the challenges of mapping specialized vocabularies to general language. Information science research aims to build bridges from experts to non-experts. Examples from emergency rooms and chief complaint are used to illustrate the linguistic approaches to information seeking and understanding.
Professor Greenberg discusses the importance of metadata and classification for information access. Trends such as the semantic web and standards and tools such as the Dublin Core, XML, MARC, thesauri, and ontologies are considered.
Anne Klinefelter, Director of UNC Law Library and Deborah Gerhardt, Director of its Intellectual Property Initative and Adjunct Professor of Law, discuss changes in modern law libraries, the importance of online resources, and issues related to intellectual property.
In order to remain important to society without being minimized libraries must innovate. But what exactly is innovation? Is any new product innovative? Can we recognize innovation when we see it?
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