Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Sampson, Robert J. 2012. Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 9780226734569. pp. 552, $27.50 cloth. Robert J. Sampson’s ...

Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect

Keywords: Crisis Informatics ; Social Media Collection ; Social Media Analysis Reference EPFL-CONF-203561 Record created on 2014-11-26, modified on 2017-05-12

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CrisisLex: A Lexicon for Collecting and Filtering Microblogged Communications in Crises

The article reviews the book "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert.

The sixth extinction: an unnatural history.

Advances in the biological sciences have led to an ongoing paradigm shift in toxicity testing based on expanded application of high-throughput in vitro screening and in silico methods to assess potential health risks of environmental agents. This review examines progress on the vision for toxicity testing elaborated by the US National Research Council (NRC) during the decade that has passed since the 2007 NRC report on Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century (TT21C). Concomitant advances in exposure assessment, including computational approaches and high-throughput exposomics, are also documented. A vision for the next generation of risk science, incorporating risk assessment methodologies suitable for the analysis of new toxicological and exposure data, resulting in human exposure guidelines is described. Case study prototypes indicating how these new approaches to toxicity testing, exposure measurement, and risk assessment are beginning to be applied in practice are presented. Overall, progress on the 20-year transition plan laid out by the US NRC in 2007 has been substantial. Importantly, government agencies within the United States and internationally are beginning to incorporate the new approach methodologies envisaged in the original TT21C vision into regulatory practice. Future perspectives on the continued evolution of toxicity testing to strengthen regulatory risk assessment are provided.

Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: Progress in the Past Decade and Future Perspectives

Still relatively new at many educational institutions, Digital Scholarship and Data Services Librarian positions frequently require the appointees to find novel ways of expanding current services and exploring new initiatives. To better understand the needs of our institution, we initiated two information gathering processes involving faculty, our key stakeholders. We will share what we learned as we developed and conducted our 2017 digital scholarship needs assessment survey, which preceded 24 in-depth interviews with faculty members, and the larger trends that emerged from the survey as well as the themes uncovered by the interview process. Each of these research strategies made a distinct contribution to our understanding of the services needed, and proved to be useful tools as we tried to simultaneously develop a network and understand the faculty culture at DePaul. Although every institution’s context is unique, both methods of collecting information provided insights which should be helpful in a variety of contexts. The Digital Scholarship and Data Services Librarian positions were established in 2015 in response to several new initiatives at DePaul, including the formation of Studio χ, a new center for faculty whose research lies at the intersection of humanities and computer science; the formation of a cross-college collaboration task force, and a number of new programs exploring the use of “big data.” Externally, the need for positions supporting data and digital humanities was also highlighted in the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committees April 2013 Environmental Scan, which noted, “an explosion of DH centers, an increase of grant funding available for DH work, and an increase in the number of conference sessions focusing on DH,” as well as the likelihood of a “substantial role for librarians in curating, managing and preserving data.”1 Data curation was also noted as a top trend in the 2012 Top Trends in Academic Libraries: a review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries and higher education.2 The 2014 report reiterated the potential for collaborative opportunities in data management and also described the possibilities for growth in the support of digital humanities.3 Jaguszewski and Williams also discussed the emerging role of a hybrid model of liaison librarianship and “functional specialists” in their 2013 ARL report.4 Indeed these new positions were conceived as functional specialists, situated within the library’s reference, instruction and academic engagement department where, in addition to having liaison responsibilities to specific departments, they would also provide functional support across disciplines. In order for the librarians in these new positions to be successful, we understood that we would not only need to integrate these new roles into the library’s culture, but also understand the digital scholarship and data management landscape at DePaul. We began this process early, inviting faculty already teaching in the areas of data journalism and digital humanities to serve on the search committees for these positions. Once hired, the librarians in these new positions developed a series of professional development workshops for existing library staff, introducing participants to the text mining capabilities offered through the HathiTrust Research Center, as well the data cleaning capabilities afforded by OpenRefine software. Beyond the library, the titles of these newly

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From Survey to Social Network: Building New Services through Connections

The University of Illinois’ Graduate School of Library and Information Science (uiucGSLIS) participated in TREC’s knowledge base acceleration (KBA) track in 2013. Specifically, we submitted runs for the cumulative citation recommendation (CCR) task. CCR is a type of document filtering. The use-case is that our user U is an editor of a node T in a knowledge base such as Wikipedia (for example, the entry for blogger Jamie Parsley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie Parsley). Given an incoming stream of documents D,the system must emit a binary route/not-route decision for each document Di in real time. In this case, the binary decision signals whether we should recommend Di to U as a source of information for editing the entity T ’s page. In other words, our goal is to monitor D, signaling to U when we find a document that contains “edit-worthy” information regarding the entity T .

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The University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science at TREC 2013.

: The University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science (uiucGSLIS) participated in TREC's microblog and knowledge base acceleration (KBA) tracks in 2012. Our high-level goals were two-fold: *Microblog: Test a novel method for document ranking during real-time search. *KBA: Compare methods of topic representation-particularly longitudinal adaptation of topic representation-for the KBA task.

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The University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science at TREC 2012

 Abstract Introduction; Background  Introduction Research Design and Methods; Materials and Methods, Methods  Method Preliminary Results; Early Results; Results; Result  Result Conclusion; Summary  Conclusion Table 13: Mapping of section names in scholarly articles Although section name variants in Table 13 may not be exhaustive and may not include every variation under which a particular section name appears, this mapping strategy provided a relatively good coverage for a large number of articles in the TREC Genomics collection. Table 14 indicates the results of the mapping process on the three TREC 2006 Genomics

Automatically identifying facet roles from comparative structures to support biomedical text summarization

For centuries, library and information science professionals have been responsible for curating and preserving access to information resources. The last few decades have seen an unprecedented change in how new knowledge is created, disseminated and reused both within academe and industry, which provides new opportunities to intervene within the data lifecycle. This paper documents efforts to create a graduate educational program that produces alum who understand both the social and technical aspects of data analytics and who can effectively employ data to address questions in academe and industry. We share perspectives gained from initial interviews with project partners who have data needs, and report on how those needs directly informed curricula development of the Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) program at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. We also provide a formative student evaluation of the program that was conducted to identify aspects that are successful, and those where further work is needed in order to help other schools who are developing similar programs that prepare a workforce who can effectively reuse data.

https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301075

Ana Lucic

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From Survey to Social Network: Building New Services through Connections

The University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science at TREC 2013.

The University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science at TREC 2012

Automatically identifying facet roles from comparative structures to support biomedical text summarization

Preparing a workforce to effectively reuse data