[Eril-l] Core Webinar: Past to the Future: Intersections of Digitization, AI, and the Digital Humanities

Tue Jul 2 05:00:00 PDT 2024

*Cross posted to multiple lists*

Core Webinar: Past to the Future: Intersections of Digitization, AI, and
the Digital Humanities

Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.

Description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) would not exist without
digitization. Machine Learning requires massive amounts of training
material with more data creating higher intelligence. Digital Humanities
has reenergized historical research. Decades-long digitization programs
continue to build a vast and forever growing digital corpus. Materials
collected and digitized by libraries are the core of these new technologies
and disciplines.

Bryan Benilous, Chief Consultant, Paperboy Digital Consulting, will discuss
how digitization of material collected by libraries, feed AI and how AI is
being used to improve digitization. He will explore challenges with the
existing ecosystem (silos, paywalls, biases, copyright, etc.) and dig
deeper into how Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is utilized and how it
is being improved by AI. Various digital humanities resources, both open
access and commercial, will be highlighted. Attendees will better
understand their role in the Digital Humanities and learn about resources
to participate. They will be inspired to consider how their content might
contribute to the broader digital corpus in support of the Digital
Humanities.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this webinar, the attendees will:

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   Understand the digitization landscape.
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   Understand the impact of digitization strategies on the digital
   humanities.
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   Understand how AI has developed using digitized collections.
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   Be inspired to contribute to the broad digital corpus.

Who should attend?

Librarians and archivists interested in digitization. Also, academic
librarians and researchers.

Presenter:

Bryan Benilous is an award-winning publishing leader supporting research
and education for over 25 years. He is core innovator of noted programs
including East View Global Press Archive, ProQuest Historical Newspapers,
SIRS Issues Researcher, and more. Bryan has an M.A. in History from Florida
Atlantic University and was named a 2021 Library Journal Mover and Shaker –
Digital Developer. He is a certified PMP (Project Management Professional),
certified in Pragmatic Marketing and trained in Design Thinking, Agile, and
other business processes. He designs groundbreaking programs that aim to
diversify content and broaden access, making for a more equitable research
environment. Bryan is an advocate for Open Access initiatives and works to
diversify the breadth of digital research content.

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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1260

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*

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