Upcoming Webinars and Events
ASIS&T Webinars, your source for online live and on-demand content created by the Association for Information Science & Technology, are free to ASIS&T members. Our webinars connect you with experts and global thought leaders in information science, management, and business on relevant professional issues.
Webinar: The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive
March 27. 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for future generations. Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic document the development and adoption of JPEG 2000, FFV1, MXF, and Matroska while investigating the social and material aspects of their design and the forces driving their journeys from niche to ubiquity.
Drawing on interviews with archivists and developers, Jones and Jancovic reveal the archive as a dynamic space where deeply entrenched social practices produce disagreements but also resourceful collaborations. They contrast the unprecedented rise of archivist-driven standardization and controversies around non-standard technology with the historical dominance of the film and broadcast industries. Throughout, the authors clarify the role of tech companies, software developers, film pirates, hackers, and other players with poorly understood roles in the process.
A timely look at the state of audiovisual preservation, The Future of Memory provides a history of recent innovations alongside a snapshot of a field in the midst of profound technological change.
Jimi Jones will provide a snapshot of his co-authored book during this webinar.
April 1, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Theme: Voices Through Data: Integrating Information Science, Storytelling, and Digital Literacy
This year’s conference highlights the critical role of data in shaping stories and making information more accessible. We’ll focus on the importance of digital literacy, developing critical thinking skills, navigating ethical challenges in data storytelling, and empowering individuals to use data for informed decision-making.
https://www.asist.org/chapters/neasist/
This event will run from 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM.
Welcome Wednesday - April 2025
April 2, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Come learn about ASIS&T and how to access your many benefits and services.
If you are not yet a member of ASIS&T and wish to learn more about the organization, please contact membership@asist.org.
ASIS&T Europe Chapter & SIG-III Information Science Pub Quiz
April 3, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
The ASIST Europe Chapter & SIG-III warmly invite all interested information scholars, educators, and students to an exciting Information Science Pub Quiz, a brain-teasing event designed to challenge and entertain via Zoom on 3 April 2025 at 3pm BST / 4pm CET (see in your time zone here).
The Chapter & SIG have together created a fun-filled session of trivia questions and challenges to test your knowledge of international information science; the quiz will unfold in engaging rounds to puzzle and entertain attendees before winners are announced at the end of the event.
Registration is free for ASIST Members, 10 USD for non-members, and 5 USD for student non-members.
April 10, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Are you interested in starting an ASIS&T Student Chapter at your university? Join us on April 10th for an orientation on how to start a chapter and the benefits of membership.
April 17, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Are you interested in starting an ASIS&T Student Chapter at your university? Join us on April 17th for an orientation on how to start a chapter and the benefits of membership.
Webinar: Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia
April 24, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
This talk describes the ways that Cambodian new media creators commemorate lost artists and an imagined better way of life through finding, repairing, and disseminating historical film, photography and cinema artifacts from before the Khmer Rouge period, often using digital tools. Reconstructing such media artifacts through a process of infrastructural restitution is a mode of healing from decades of national conflict and a form of subtle political action in an increasingly authoritarian Phnom Penh. Building on theory at the intersection of infrastructure studies (Star and Ruhleder, 1996; Larkin, 2013) and media’s relationship to memory (Gordon, 2008; Larkin, 2008; Richards, 1994), the concept of infrastructural restitution allows us to (re)integrate the importance of memory, the affective, and the spiritual into scholarship of infrastructure. This case gives new insight into the tension in transnational technology use between creative appropriation and the problematic political economy of mainstream platforms. The empirical sections of this talk are based on the author's historical and ethnographic research in Phnom Penh beginning in January 2014, including 20 months of full-time research from June 2017-January 2019. In addition, she will expound in the discussion about how this case informs our understanding of the relationships between technology and future-building social movements in 2025.
Considering Cultural and Linguistic Diversity AI Applications: A Hybrid (In-Person/Virtual) Workshop
May 6, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM
AI has tremendous potential to improve all different aspects of our lives – leading to changes in many facets of life, including making our day-to-day lives easier, allowing for more personalized healthcare, and generating insights as we live and learn. There are also challenges and potential issues that we should consider, such as:
- How are people affected differently by AI?
- How might aspects of one’s culture, background, and other characteristics or traits affect how we might respond to AI?
- How might these considerations inform how we regard or develop applications involving AI?
- How do we collaboratively work towards integrating the values and preferences of communities of interest in AI tools?
This workshop seeks to bring together researchers, practitioners, and others who work with (or are interested in working with) culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations. All levels of technical expertise welcome!
Dublin Core Academy: BIBFRAME Part 2
May 8, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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