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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Register Now for this NISO Webinar -- Just <u>One Week from
Today</u>!<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/webinars/jun7_webinar/"><b>Enabling
Discovery and Retrieval of Nontraditional and Granular Output</b></a><b><span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Wednesday, June 7, 2017<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern)<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Featured Speakers:
Nicole Johnson</b>, <i>Product Manager, Digital Commons, bepress</i>; <b>Ruth
Pickering</b>, Co-<i>Founder and Chief Business Development Officer, Yewno</i>; <b>Gerald
Benoit</b>, <i>Associate Professor, Simmons School of Library and
Information Science, Simmons College</i>.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Speaker presentations will cover:<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Expanding the Spectrum of Scholarship: Metadata and
Search Options for Nontraditional Content</b><br>
<b>Nicole Johnson</b>, <i>Product Manager, Digital Commons, bepress</i><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Libraries are increasingly being asked to provide technical
solutions for everything their institutions produce. The influx of content
types, including patents, grant-funded projects, and research datasets, means
the library needs to keep up with evolving needs. <span></span></p>
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Drawing on a community of over 500 institutions with unique content
requirements, bepress has developed flexible and customizable metadata and
search tools that allow the library and other groups on campus to manage,
search, and report on materials from all points along the research life cycle.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nicole Johnson, Product Manager for Digital Commons, will
share:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* examples of how custom metadata fields can be used to
search for and report on nontraditional content;<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* the benefits and challenges of bepress's upcoming switch
from SOLR to Elastic search;<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* and ways that full-text search that includes snippet text
and thumbnails can enhance the user experience.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Transforming Information into Knowledge</b><br>
<b>Ruth Pickering</b>, <i>Co-Founder and Chief Business Development
Officer, Yewno</i><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In today's world, the ever increasing volume and
fragmentation of information makes it difficult for researchers to find what
they need and for content providers to know at a high level of granularity
what's contained in their catalogues. Using AI technology, Yewno provides a
solution to these problems with its products, which provide conceptual search
and a topical hierarchy. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ruth Pickering, Co-Founder of Yewno, will share: <span></span></p>
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demonstration of Yewno's conceptual search product Discover<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">A
demonstration of Yewno's topical hierarchy product Unearth<span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">A
summary of the key benefits<span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Trends in Image-only Retrieval</b><br>
<b>Gerald Benoit</b>, <i>Associate Professor, Simmons School of Library
and Information Science, Simmons College</i>.<b><span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The usual technique for searching for images is through keywords
and metadata—text approaches to creating image retrieval sets. This webinar briefly
reviews text-oriented retrieval, then discusses the use of image metadata for
more complex queries and "image-only" retrieval projects.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To register online, use <a href="https://www.regonline.com/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1917994">this
form</a>. Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members automatically receive access
to this virtual event. If you’re not sure if you’re a member of the LSA, check <a href="http://www.niso.org/about/roster/">here</a>. Not a member? NISO offers a
variety of registration options. For information about those options, visit the
<a href="http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/2017_virtconf/jun14_virtconf/">NISO
event page</a>.<span></span></p>
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