New videos from CNI’s April membership meeting are now available:
Expensive electronic licensed content promises easy access to vast quantities of digitized material, but its use is restricted by both copyright and licensing agreements. Text and Data-Mining on Licensed Collections includes a discussion and demonstration of Robots Reading Vogue, a project of the Yale University Library DHLab, which is an effort to build digital humanities tools on top of a restricted archive, allowing exploration and experimentation on 400,000 pages of Vogue magazine while still respecting copyright. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/166401139 YouTube: https://youtu.be/I5CjfMsKBM4
At a time when many libraries continue to experience low reference activity, the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries have seen a 489% increase in chat usage from 2013 (4,600 questions) to 2015 (27,000 questions), after implementing Zopim, a proactive, context-sensitive chat system. Transformational Online Reference with a Proactive, Context-sensitive Chat System: Using Triggers to Encourage Patrons to Ask Questions provides information about the configuration and management of the system and the changes in chat staffing to support the high-demand service. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/166403201 YouTube: https://youtu.be/P27-3z3cCA0
Previously-released videos from this meeting:
-Scaling Maker Spaces Across the Web: Weaving Maker Space Communities Together to Support Distributed, Networked Collaboration in Knowledge Creation
https://vimeo.com/166096019
Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the spring 2016 CNI meeting. To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo
Diane Goldenberg-Hart
Communications Coordinator
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20039
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