For librarians & archivists: web archiving analytics workshop @ Washington, DC on Oct 28 open for registration. 15 travel grants available. Details at cedwarc.github.io

Not an April Fool's Day prank: achieve up to 2 orders of magnitude speedup by converting WARCs to more performant formats: postprint of our jcdl2020 paper "The Case For Alternative Web Archival Formats To Expedite The Data-To-Insight Cycle". arxiv.org/abs/2003.14046

Anyone can share TBs of COVID-19 archives? We'll see if and how we can do much better re: reuse performance.

As part of jcdl2020 WADL2020 cfp now opens! 2-page proposal due June 6 for a virtual workshop on web archiving & digital libraries, to be held Aug 4-5. Details: fox.cs.vt.edu/wadl2020.html

The 2022 summer funding round call for proposals is NOW OPEN for the University Libraries Collaborative Research Grant & is extended to all VT academic disciplines! ➡️$5K or $10K for ea. project ➡️Postdocs are now eligible ➡️Deadline: 5/5 ➡️Awards: 5/11 ➡️sites.google.com/vt.edu/lib-col…

Deadline extended to Apr 17: 2016 Web Archiving and Digital Libraries workshop at JCDL 2016 Newark, NJ. fox.cs.vt.edu/wadl2016.html

We (Tyler Walters edwardafox Pablo Tarazaga Jiangping Chen) will research on library cyberinfrastructure strategies. imls.gov/grants/awarded…

Xie: Are Repositories Impeding Big Data Reuse? Not enough to just have storage need processing too for reuse #OR2016

Xie: The Bridge Pattern, data explicitly stored in a different facility #OR2016 #BigData

I'm Zhiwu Xie, PI of NDP "Developing Library Cyberinfrastructure Strategy for Big Data Sharing and Reuse" lci.lib.vt.edu #ndpthree

Hope to see NDP do more to help defining and shaping the grand challenges for libraries, and fund high-risk high-reward projects #ndpthree

A round of applaud for the IMLS 2-pager prelim proposal stage. #NDPthree

Would also want to applaud IMLS for making public all funded proposals. #NDPthree

"we need to let go of an obsession with quick wins and shift to the grand challenges" - Chris Bourg #NDPthree

#NDPthree A grand challenge does not have to be hardware to tech, but a clearly impactful outcome with doable means to achieve it.

#NDPthree grand challenge examples: low cost book scaning; libraries mass challenging fair use legal scare; ebook fair use clauses, etc.

#NDPthree grand challenge exanples: lobbying policy changes on academic incentives?