2020 General Notes Speakers may only participate in two sessions during the AMIA Conference. When asking speakers to participate, it is important that you are aware if they are part of other proposals. If more than two sessions are accepted with the same speaker, that speaker will be asked to withdraw from one or more sessions. If your session is not viable without a particular speaker, please note that in your session description. AMIA...
Read More Seagate Powered by Tape Ark Zettabytes of the world’s data sits trapped on legacy tapes, stuck in offsite vault storage. Today, this data may be more useful than ever; with the power of AI and deep data analytics, it can provide greater intelligence than ever to solve problems. Older data can also be valuable, or even necessary, for maintaining regulatory compliance. Yet this data is disconnected, hard to access, and sits deteriorating...
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Poster: Oral History Metadata: Lessons from a Wildfire Oral History Drew Edwards, University of Tennessee Libraries Transcription work can take six or more hours for each single hour of recording. By planning what metadata should be created, access points for an oral history can still be maintained even when there is neither time or budget for transcriptions. Dividing the history into chapters that are five to ten...
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5:00 PM (Pacific) Introduction & Screening: Detour (1945, d. Edgar G. Ulmer) From the gutters of Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run—a waking nightmare that goes from bad...
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4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (Pacific) AMIA 2020 Virtual Student Mixer Share a virtual drink with current students, prospective students, and recent grads and chat about the conference, classes, the job market, and any other questions you have! Join us on the AMIA Student Discord (in the Lounge voice/video channel) 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM (Pacific) Trivia Throwdown: Virtual Style Test your skills, win prizes, and...
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