content curation

Prep it, Scan it, and Describe it: Production Tools and Techniques for Description and Rapid Digitization of Manuscripts and Texts

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Paul Deschner and Stephen Chapman of the Harvard Law School Library Lab will report on the tools and techniques that project teams have been using to describe and rapidly and cheaply digitize collections. Through digitization, we aim to deliver research collections to the classroom—and freely via the web—to faculty, students, and scholars not only interested in accessing historic materials, but also enriching them by using tools for tagging.

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Time slot: 
19 June 14:30 - 15:30
Room: 
180
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Explanatory Parentheticals (Consistently Ubiquitous, Easily Harvested, and Grossly Underutilized)

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Lawyers and judges alike rely on explanatory parentheticals to concisely convey the substance of a decision.  Indeed, the common law is infested with these case-summarizing parentheticals. 
Because these parentheticals follow a common format, including the use of an introductory gerund - (holding, (distinguishing, (rejecting, etc. - they are amenable to automated extraction.  During an ongoing fellowship project at Stanford CodeX, the speaker extracted hundreds of thousands of explanatory parentheticals from federal case law.   

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Time slot: 
19 June 14:30 - 15:30
Room: 
190
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I'm Not A Librarian, I'm A Curator: Raise Your Profile With Social Content Curation

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A curator collects, organizes, and shares information. Librarians have always been curators. In the ever changing information environment we now need to acknowledge our inner curator and bring those skills to the social media efforts of our institutions. Social content curation is about collecting, organizing, and sharing information in new ways that aid our patrons; they want to follow trusted “filters” of information to save them time. Effective and useful curation can highlight the value of the library, the librarians, and our legal resources, in a new way.

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