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DIS Research Open Day - keynote from Professor Elizabeth Shepherd
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The UCL Department of Information Studies (DIS) is a leader in interdisciplinary and innovative research across Library, Archives and Record Management, Publishing, Information Science, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities. At this event, in June 2024, we discussed with our unique coalition of scholars their recent achievements and projects, the recent advancements in the DIS areas of...
The Imitation Game: Advancing guidance on AI ethics and governance in practice (by Ann Borda)
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Description: AI is having a significant impact on public policies and services around the world, but government use of AI has a steep learning curve, and the purpose of AI within government and public sector contexts present numerous challenges. To help UK civil servants learn about and explore AI in an effective and ethical way, the Alan Turing Institute’s Public Policy Programme developed a s...
Conversation Machines, Missing Secretaries, Bad Readers (by Rebecca Roach)
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‘Giant electronic brains’: it was an early model for understanding computers, one that has been enormously generative, spurring advances in cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence across the decades. In this talk I want to tell a different story. There is another metaphor about computers that is just as prevalent in our culture, but much less commented upon: computers as talking machines. Conce...
Sloane Lab presentation: Looking back to build future shared collections
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Sloane Lab presentation: Looking back to build future shared collections
Research talk by Abul Hasan
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Incorporating Dictionaries into a Neural Network Architecture to Extract COVID-19 Medical Concepts From Social Media
(Re)Shaping Digital Humanities through Environmental Justice
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As a field in constant transformation and expansion, Digital Humanities takes a broad shape to accommodate interdisciplinarity yet be grounded in the Humanities. This interdisciplinarity allows us the space to question some of the practices and processes we often consider fixed in academia. In this talk I will refer to a dual shift in DH as a call to shape and reshape the field vis-à-vis enviro...
Towards Computational Persuasion for Behaviour Change Applications.
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The aim of behaviour change is to help people to change aspects of their behaviour for the better (e.g., to decrease calorie intake, to drink in moderation, to take more exercise, to complete a course of antibiotics once started, etc.). Recent developments in computational modelling of argument (a subfield of AI) are leading to technology for persuasion that can potentially be harnessed in beha...
Sociocultural approaches to information literacy: Space races, wish-cycling and squabbling siblings
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Information Literacy talk by Alison Hicks, "Sociocultural approaches to information literacy: Space races, wish-cycling and squabbling siblings" Sociocultural approaches to information literacy, which recognise that information literacy is shaped through dialogue and debate, have not always been welcomed within LIS, being variously critiqued as ‘fashionable,’ of no interest to practitioners or ...
Research Talk by Charles Inskip, "The impact of the pandemic on musicologists' use of technology"
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Research Talk by Charles Inskip, "The impact of the pandemic on musicologists' use of technology" This talk was delivered as part of the DIS lunchtime research seminar series on 18 October 2023. This talk will explore two key findings from a global survey of musicologists’ use of technology in their research during the pandemic. The impact of the technology on community-building was raised thro...
Research Talk by Richard Charkin, "My Back Pages: A undeniably personal history of publishing"
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Publishing Research Talk by Richard Charkin, "My Back Pages: A undeniably personal history of publishing" This talk was delivered as part of the DIS lunchtime research seminar series on 11 October 2023. Richard Charkin’s experience as a publisher is unique among his generation. Over the past half century he has been a scientific and medical publisher, a journal publisher, a digital publisher an...
Examining the digital humanities as a site and ‘peoplescape’ of collecting.
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Julianne Nyhan is Professor of Humanities Data Science and Methodology at the Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. She remains a part-time Professor of Digital Humanities at UCL, where she leads the Towards a National Collection AHRC-funded project ‚The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections‘. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she was ...
Records and Information Management and Nation Building
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Professor Elizabeth Shepherd gave a public lecture to launch the Government of Jamaica Archives and Records Department records and information management (RIM) Month, April 2023. The whole Records and Information Management (RIM) Month 2023 Launch and Public Lecture is also available: ua-cam.com/video/QelWzwFKSns/v-deo.html
Librarians for critical digital justice
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Academic Librarians have been silent for too long about the inequalities embedded within the digital technologies that are used within their academic institutions. This webinar departs from the Global North Higher Education's techno-deterministic narratives. A selection of Critical Librarians will deliver 15 minute ‘provocations’ of truth-telling to promote the accountability that is needed if ...
BSc Information in Society (September 2024)
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More information and register your interest here: www.ucl.ac.uk/information-studies/study/undergraduate-study/bsc-information-society Interdisciplinary by design, UCL’s BSc Information in Society is a degree that will equip you with practical knowledge from both the humanities and technology along with a thorough understanding of the role of information, data, and evidence in society. The BSc I...
Head of Department's introductory video 2022
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Head of Department's introductory video 2022
Hidden in the bookshelves: Una Dillon and the ‘formidable’ women booksellers of London, 1930s-1960s.
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Hidden in the bookshelves: Una Dillon and the ‘formidable’ women booksellers of London, 1930s-1960s.
Unlocking Narratives: The Roots of Decolonising Work in UK Libraries and Archives.
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Unlocking Narratives: The Roots of Decolonising Work in UK Libraries and Archives.
ED&I workshop 9th June 2022
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ED&I workshop 9th June 2022
UCL Information Studies - MSc Knowledge, Information & Data Science
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UCL Information Studies - MSc Knowledge, Information & Data Science
UCL Information Studies - Meet our Alumni
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UCL Information Studies - Meet our Alumni
MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: MIRRA report
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MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: MIRRA report
MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: The wider use and importance of care records
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MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: The wider use and importance of care records
MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: Resources to enable records access
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MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: Resources to enable records access
MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: Individual care leaver story
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MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: Individual care leaver story
MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: Introduction and individual care leaver stories
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MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: Introduction and individual care leaver stories
MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: Information professionals’ perspective:
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MIRRA Symposium, Day Two: Information professionals’ perspective:
MIRRA Symposium, Day One: MIRRA report
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MIRRA Symposium, Day One: MIRRA report
MIRRA Symposium, Day One: Participatory system design
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MIRRA Symposium, Day One: Participatory system design
MIRRA Symposium, Day One: Introductions and care-leaver perspective
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MIRRA Symposium, Day One: Introductions and care-leaver perspective

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @fionabillal2680
    @fionabillal2680 3 роки тому

    Very informative and great to hear the care leavers views -records are vital for people who have been in care

  • @luzie1354
    @luzie1354 3 роки тому

    This was a very helpful overview, thank you! :)

  • @annaisabananallama
    @annaisabananallama 4 роки тому

    Why didn't you ask any questions about coronavirus implications?