Program | Making Meaning

Program | Making Meaning
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Program
9am |
Welcome Vicki McDonald AM, State Librarian and Chief Executive Officer and Margaret Warren, Director, Content Management, State Library of Queensland |
9.20am |
Opening keynote – From food to buildings and beyond: what happens when a library opens its digital collections to human-computer collaboration Mauricio Giraldo, Colombia |
10am |
Plans, potentials and pitfalls of collections as data Panel discussion with Dr Sara King, AARNet; Duncan Loxton, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Data Archive; Alison Dellit, National Library of Australia and Mauricio Giraldo |
10.30am |
Morning tea sponsored by OCLC |
11am |
Lightning talks: transparency and trust Technology, ethics, culture and collaboration when working with collections as data. Presenting speakers: Amanda Healy, Ex Libris – Data is All Around Us In an era of innovation and technology, data is created and collected in every possible way. During the lightning talk session, Ex Libris will explore how different technology and solutions can leverage data to innovate and to integrate it into our day-to-day work. Professor Michael Haugh, University of Queensland – Cultural and social data analytics Michael will outline work on cultural and social data analytics being developed in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland, with a particular focus on efforts to enable researchers to gain new skills in data transformation, data mining and data visualisation. Dr Sara King, AARNet – Electric boots and mohair suits: AARNet and GLAM GLAM collections have long held our physical cultural objects for access and preservation, but increasingly these objects are digital. AARNet supports cultural heritage institutions in the digital era and is participating in a range of innovative and groundbreaking projects across the sector. |
11.30am |
More than digital: working with Indigenous research data and Indigenous knowledge at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Archive Duncan Loxton, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Data Archive |
12 noon |
Curator’s tour of Spoken: celebrating Queensland languages exhibition Des Crump, Coordinator, Indigenous Languages, State Library of Queensland |
12.30pm |
Lunch |
1.15pm |
Lightning talks: from data to meaning Presenting speakers: Dr Geoff Hinchcliffe and Assoc. Prof. Mitchell Whitelaw – The Corley collection explorer Ashley Dennis-Henderson – Not all data is created equal: analysing Australia's WW1 diaries Des Crump – Reviving Indigenous languages through data Dr Kerry Raymond – Machine generating Wikipedia content Kirsten Wright – Find & Connect map of children’s homes Seth Ellis – Cataloguing historical sound Rachel Merrick – Stewarding data-rich collections for use and re-use |
2.20pm |
Closing Keynote – The forest and the trees: insights discovered while creating We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa Chris McDowall, New Zealand |
3.15pm |
End of symposium |

Making Meaning: Collections as Data Symposium
Join us on Friday 6 March 2020 at State Library.