Emerging Technologies
New technologies appear all the time, and sometimes these innovations take hold and begin to have an impact on the kinds of services, programs, and strategies some sectors of the CNI community choose to explore. In this space, we will feature content pertaining to developing technologies whose potential applications are beginning to take shape within higher education, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, preservation, archives, and other areas of interest to CNI. The topics included here are those we view as emerging at the time of the presentation or publication.
Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff
“Machine Learning, Archives and Special Collections” (October '19)Author: Clifford A. Lynch
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Advancements in Digital Preservation: Spectral 3-D Reconstruction of Impressionist Oil Paintings (March '20)
Yi Yang, Pennsylvania State University
Building and Using Collections as Data: Using Machine Learning to Identify Jim Crow Laws (March '20)
Amanda Henley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lorin Bruckner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kimber Thomas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Building Data Science Support Capacity through Graduate Fellowship Programs (March '20)
Jeffrey C. Oliver, University of Arizona
Jennifer Nichols, University of Arizona
Every Pixel on the Sunset Strip: Computer Vision and Photography (March '20)
Peter Leonard, Yale University
Damon Crockett, Yale University
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Recent Videos
Artificial Intelligence: Impacts and Roles for Libraries (January '20)Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University
Jason Griffey, National Information Standards Organization View more information
Can We Talk? Adding a Smart Assistant Interface to Library Services (January '20)
Greg Davis, Iowa State University
Lisa Smith, Iowa State University View more information
Ready or Not: Here Comes Voice Search (January '20)
Carl Grant, University of Oklahoma View more information
3D Scanning and Augmented Reality as a Method to Deliver and Promote Digital Collections in Libraries & Museums (April '19)
Chad Hutchens, University of Wyoming
Tyler Kerr, University of Wyoming View more information
A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual OCR (April '19)
Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University View more information
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