\n| \n Brenda O’Neill:<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>The Mike Cooley Story: A Human-Centered Approach to the Curation of a Special Collection.
<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| 15:30 – 16:00<\/td>\n | Panel Q&A<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Speakers” _builder_version=”4.0.3″ custom_padding=”11px|||||”]<\/p>\n Speakers<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″][et_pb_team_member name=”Dr Andrew Cox” position=”Information School, University of Sheffield” image_url=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/andrew-cox.jpg” admin_label=”Andrew Cox” _builder_version=”4.0.3″ border_radii_image=”on|100%|100%|100%|100%”]<\/p>\n The intelligent library<\/strong><\/p>\nThe presentation explores the meaning of artificial intelligence for libraries\u00a0and within the wider HE context. Some applications are already familiar, some remain futuristic. It considers the different roles that libraries might play in applying AI and the knowledge, skills and attitudes that library staff would need to develop.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″][et_pb_team_member name=”Dr Tony Russell-Rose” position=”Goldsmiths, Univ. of London; Director, UXLabs” image_url=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tony-russell-rose.jpg” admin_label=”Tony Russell-Rose” _builder_version=”4.0.1″ border_radii_image=”on|100%|100%|100%|100%”]<\/p>\n Searching for Meaning in Text: Natural Language Processing<\/b><\/p>\n Tony’s talk will be a lively guide to the how and why of natural language processing (NLP). The primary objective of NLP is to disambiguate language and search for meaning in text<\/g><\/g>. It is a significant growth area, a multi-faceted field of research including basic text processing, text mining, the human-computer interface, language modelling and semantics.<\/p>\nNLP faces monumentally complex obstacles confronted with linguistic ambiguity, but Tony will show how AI can help cut through these challenges.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″][et_pb_team_member name=”Michael Upshall” position=”Head of Business Development, UNSILO” image_url=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/michael-upshall.png” admin_label=”Michael Upshall” _builder_version=”4.0.1″ border_radii_image=”on|100%|100%|100%|100%”]<\/p>\n What role for information professionals in the age of AI?<\/strong><\/p>\nRecent advances in AI and machine learning have had a transformation effect on the creation and discovery of scholarly content. Traditional approaches, such as building large-scale classification systems, are today being evaluated alongside more automated tools that can identify core concepts and entities from journal articles and book chapters. In this presentation, Michael Upshall shows some examples of how these tools are being used in the scholarly workflow, from finding peer reviewers, to checking article content for appropriacy and relevance, to identifying related content in a repository. The presentation includes some suggestions for an enhanced role for the information professional in this new environment.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″][et_pb_team_member name=”Dr Bernard Butler” position=”Research Fellow, TSSG, Waterford” image_url=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bernard-Butler.jpg” admin_label=”Bernard Butler” _builder_version=”4.0.1″ border_radii_image=”on|100%|100%|100%|100%” border_color_all_image=”rgba(0,0,0,0)”]<\/p>\n AI and Machine Learning – their impact on research and knowledge<\/strong><\/p>\nAI and Machine Learning have become the source of many articles and discussions. For some, they offer the potential to solve the significant problems of our age: climate change, antibiotic resistance and human augmentation. Others take a more dystopian view, citing concerns such as human displacement and biased decisions. This talk looks behind the hype, explains where AI and Machine Learning came from and where they are going. It also outlines some ways in which the world of research, and of knowledge more generally, is undergoing a fundamental change in response to advances in AI and Machine Learning.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″][et_pb_team_member name=”Adrian Vaughan, Michael Costello” position=”CIT Library Assistant, CIT Deputy Librarian” image_url=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/vaughn-costelloe.jpg” admin_label=”Vaughn_Costello” _builder_version=”4.0.3″ border_radii_image=”on|100%|100%|100%|100%”]<\/p>\n Deployment of an AI powered Virtual Librarian in CIT Library<\/strong><\/p>\nCIT library has implemented Watson Assistant; IBM\u2019s AI product \u201cthat lets you build, train, and deploy conversational interactions into any application, device, or channel\u201d. In the guise of Berkeley the virtual librarian, this has enabled CIT library to provide immediate responses to the most frequently asked library queries, regardless of time and user location. Adrian Vaughan (CIT Library Assistant) & Michael Costello (CIT Deputy Librarian) will explain why and how Berkeley was created, how it continues to learn, explore findings to date and discuss future developments for Berkeley within CIT library.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″][et_pb_team_member name=”Brenda O’Neill” position=” Insyte-Cooley Research Lab, Department of Computing and Mathematics, WIT” image_url=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brenda_web.jpg” admin_label=”Brenda_ONeill” _builder_version=”4.0.6″ border_radii_image=”on|100%|100%|100%|100%”]<\/p>\n The Mike Cooley Story: A Human-Centered Approach to the Curation of a Special Collection.<\/strong><\/p>\nBrenda O’Neill presents a human-centred AI systems architecture that incorporates OWL\/RDF as a basis for inference. This technology is centred around the librarian as curator. It valorises the librarians’ tacit knowledge and is designed to augment, rather than replace, the work of the librarian through a human-machine symbiosis.<\/p>\n This approach is consonant with the philosophy of Mike Cooley, an Irish engineer, and union leader, best known for his work on the social effects of technology and on human-centred systems. Cooley’s books, papers, correspondence, and other ephemera were donated to the Waterford Institute of Technology Library by his family, in 2017.<\/p>\n An interdisciplinary team consisting of librarians, technologists and students are working together on the digitisation of this collection as part of a newly formed research group, the Insyte-Cooley Research Lab (I-CRL).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_fullwidth_map address=”The Clock Tower, Grangegorman Lower, Arran Quay, Dublin 7, D07 XT95, Ireland” zoom_level=”13″ address_lat=”51.89866284282″ address_lng=”-8.4523449175383″ mouse_wheel=”off” mobile_dragging=”off” _builder_version=”3.29.3″][et_pb_map_pin title=”CIT Cork School of Music” pin_address=”Union Quay, Ballintemple, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland” zoom_level=”15″ pin_address_lat=”51.8962404″ pin_address_lng=”-8.4682826000001″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″][\/et_pb_map_pin][\/et_pb_fullwidth_map][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″ background_color=”#d2edf9″ box_shadow_style=”preset6″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″]<\/p>\n Expressions of Interest:<\/h2>\nExpressions of interest and proposals for short presentations (20 minutes)\u00a0 should be forwarded to LIRCTTE@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE<\/a>. Proposals for presentations should be limited to 200 words.<\/p>\n\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.29.3″ custom_padding=”0px|||||”]<\/p>\n About the Venue, CIT Cork School of Music<\/h2>\nThe CIT Cork School of Music is located in the centre of Cork City, Ireland. The college was founded in 1878 and became a school of Cork Institute of Technology in 1993. The school currently operates from a five-floor purpose-built conservatory which was built on the site of the former premises. It opened in 2007 and was designed by Murray O\u2019Laoire and Buro Happold.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gallery-459-705×400.jpg” align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.29.3″ border_radii=”on|200px|200px|200px|200px” box_shadow_style=”preset6″] <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″ background_image=”https:\/\/lirgroup.heanet.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/yves-alarie-Nc0BZAOF-10-unsplash-1.jpg” background_position=”center_left” locked=”off”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.1″]<\/p>\n Registration is Now Open!<\/h1>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code admin_label=”Cognito Form” _builder_version=”4.0.1″]<\/p>\n | |