On Wednesday, November 2 at noon, join us in the Faculty House of Columbia University's Morningside Campus for an exploration of the uses of semantic technologies in scholarly research. The discussion, "Harnessing the Semantic Web for Scholarship," will introduce the Semantic Web and look at scholarly projects employing semantic technologies.
Our speakers are all involved in innovative initiatives using the Semantic Web. Micki McGee is an assistant professor of Sociology at Fordham University and is project director of the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Compatible Data Initiative, a project aiming to generate standards for shared, interoperable data sets for humanities‑based network analysis projects. Benno Blumenthal is Data Library Manager at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University. He is currently interested in using semantic technologies to facilitate the distribution of Earth science data for public use, and he is the author of the IRI/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Climate Data Library, which offers freely accessible climate data via the Web. Cristina Pattuelli is an assistant professor at the Pratt School of Library and Information Science. Her research focuses on information organization and the knowledge representation methods and tools applied to information systems, with a current emphasis on using semantic technologies in cultural heritage resources. The discussion will be moderated by Columbia Department of English and Comparative Literature doctoral candidate Graham Sack.
If you can't attend the discussion, follow it on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/ScholarlyComm/. See the Past Events page for videos of other Research Without Borders events.
