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Travel Stipends Available for RDAP Summit 2018!

Travel Stipends Available for RDAP Summit 2018! About the Stipends: The Association for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NEASIS&T) is pleased to announce three stipends to offset some costs of participation in the Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Summit.  Our goals are to support scholarship and connect research and practice, bringing new…

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Understanding and Using APIs NEASIS&T Winter Conference Schedule

Understanding and Using APIs NEASIS&T Winter Conference Schedule Looking forward to seeing so many of you at our conference on Monday, January 8, 2018! If you haven’t had a chance to register, go to our Eventbrite! Here is the schedule of events: Understanding and Using APIs Finding ways to connect information is one of our…

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RDAP Summit: Judy Spak

RDAP Summit: Judy Spak Note: Meet our board members and award winners at our summer meet-up! RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/neasist-327359588! This year we were able to use the proceeds from our annual conference to help three professionals attend the Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Summit. Held in conjunction with the Information Architecture (IA) Summit, RDAP explores themes…

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NISO RESTful Scholarly APIs Workshop Review and Summary

NISO RESTful Scholarly APIs Workshop Review and Summary By Catherine Dixon Boston, MA This fall I participated in a NISO workshop on scholarly RESTful APIs and given the upcoming API conference NEASIS&T is holding (January 8th, 2018, details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-and-using-apis-tickets-39730351551) I thought I would share my experience with my fellow metadata and technology enthusiasts. The…

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API Uses — Looking forward to our winter conference on APIs!

API Uses — Looking forward to our winter conference on APIs! I’m looking forward to our conference on January 8th on APIs in libraries! You can sign up for the event here: On Eventbrite Because of this excitement, I feel like I’m seeing API information everywhere! Here is the recording of a session called Trends and…

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Meet Your Board Members for 2017/2018!

Meet Your Board Members for 2017/2018! We have a wonderful new group of folks on the NEASIS&T board and they are all looking forward to working with you, our members, to create great programming, explore new topics in information science, and learn from each other in this vibrant network of curious information technology enthusiasts. They…

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Chapter Service Award Winners: Announcement and Interview

Chapter Service Award Winners: Announcement and Interview Louisa Choy and Kate Nyhan have been selected as our inaugural co-recipients of the ASIST New England Chapter Service Award for 2017 and will each receive $750 as a travel award.  Together, Louisa and Kate have worked tirelessly as our Programming Committee Chairs after years of active membership…

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Library Carpentry – May 15 @ MIT

Library Carpentry – May 15 @ MIT This Library Carpentry, one-day, hands-on workshop will cover jargon busting, data structures, using regular expressions for pattern matching, use of the Bash shell (aka the command line) to speed up and automate tasks, and using OpenRefine for data cleanup. We welcome groups enrolling as this helps with post-workshop…

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May Program Committee Meeting — In Person!

May Program Committee Meeting — In Person! Our next Program Committee meeting will be the 2nd Monday of May – May 8th from 5:30pm-7:30pm at Thornton’s Fenway Grille at 100 Peterborough St, Boston, MA 02215.    This is a completely open Program Committee meeting.  You don’t have to be in the Program Committee to join.  Nor…

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