*Register Now for this NISO Webinar -- Just One Week from Today!*



*Enabling Discovery and Retrieval of Nontraditional and Granular Output*
<http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/webinars/jun7_webinar/>

*Wednesday, June 7, 2017*

*1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern)*



*Featured Speakers:  Nicole Johnson*, *Product Manager, Digital Commons,
bepress*; *Ruth Pickering*, Co-*Founder and Chief Business Development
Officer, Yewno*; *Gerald Benoit*, *Associate Professor, Simmons School of
Library and Information Science, Simmons College*.

Speaker presentations will cover:



*Expanding the Spectrum of Scholarship: Metadata and Search Options for
Nontraditional Content*
*Nicole Johnson*, *Product Manager, Digital Commons, bepress*



Libraries are increasingly being asked to provide technical solutions for
everything their institutions produce. The influx of content types,
including patents, grant-funded projects, and research datasets, means the
library needs to keep up with evolving needs.


Drawing on a community of over 500 institutions with unique content
requirements, bepress has developed flexible and customizable metadata and
search tools that allow the library and other groups on campus to manage,
search, and report on materials from all points along the research life
cycle.



Nicole Johnson, Product Manager for Digital Commons, will share:

* examples of how custom metadata fields can be used to search for and
report on nontraditional content;

* the benefits and challenges of bepress's upcoming switch from SOLR to
Elastic search;

* and ways that full-text search that includes snippet text and thumbnails
can enhance the user experience.



*Transforming Information into Knowledge*
*Ruth Pickering*, *Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer, Yewno*



In today's world, the ever increasing volume and fragmentation of
information makes it difficult for researchers to find what they need and
for content providers to know at a high level of granularity what's
contained in their catalogues. Using AI technology, Yewno provides a
solution to these problems with its products, which provide conceptual
search and a topical hierarchy.



Ruth Pickering, Co-Founder of Yewno, will share:

   - A demonstration of Yewno's conceptual search product Discover
   - A demonstration of Yewno's topical hierarchy product Unearth
   - A summary of the key benefits



*Trends in Image-only Retrieval*
*Gerald Benoit*, *Associate Professor, Simmons School of Library and
Information Science, Simmons College*.



The usual technique for searching for images is through keywords and
metadata—text approaches to creating image retrieval sets. This webinar
briefly reviews text-oriented retrieval, then discusses the use of image
metadata for more complex queries and "image-only" retrieval projects.



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variety of registration options. For information about those options, visit
the NISO event page
<http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/2017_virtconf/jun14_virtconf/>.



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