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Zhiwu Xie

@zxie

Librarian @ Virginia Tech

 Blacksburg, VA
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Joined February 2008
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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-…
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As part of @jcdl20201 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
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Anyone can share TBs of COVID-19 archives? We'll see if and how we can do much better re: reuse performance.
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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 @jcdl20201 paper "The Case For Alternative Web Archival Formats To Expedite The Data-To-Insight Cycle". arxiv.org/abs/2003.14046
The Case For Alternative Web Archival Formats To Expedite The...

The Case For Alternative Web Archival Formats To Expedite The...

The WARC file format is widely used by web archives to preserve collected web content for future use. With the rapid growth of web archives and the increasing interest to reuse these archives as...

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For librarians & archivists: web archiving analytics workshop @ Washington, DC on Oct 28 open for registration. 15 travel grants available. Details at cedwarc.github.io/
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#NDPthree grand challenge exanples: lobbying policy changes on academic incentives?
#NDPthree grand challenge examples: low cost book scaning; libraries mass challenging fair use legal scare; ebook fair use clauses, etc.
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#NDPthree A grand challenge does not have to be hardware to tech, but a clearly impactful outcome with doable means to achieve it.
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"we need to let go of an obsession with quick wins and shift to the grand challenges" - @mchris4duke #NDPthree
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Would also want to applaud IMLS for making public all funded proposals. #NDPthree
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A round of applaud for the IMLS 2-pager prelim proposal stage. #NDPthree
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Hope to see NDP do more to help defining and shaping the grand challenges for libraries, and fund high-risk high-reward projects #ndpthree
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I'm Zhiwu Xie, PI of NDP "Developing Library Cyberinfrastructure Strategy for Big Data Sharing and Reuse" lci.lib.vt.edu #ndpthree
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Xie: The Bridge Pattern, data explicitly stored in a different facility #OR2016 #BigData
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Xie: Are Repositories Impeding Big Data Reuse? Not enough to just have storage need processing too for reuse #OR2016
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We (@tywalters1 @edwardafox Pablo Tarazaga @JiangpingChen) will research on library cyberinfrastructure strategies. imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-7…
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Deadline extended to Apr 17: 2016 Web Archiving and Digital Libraries workshop at @jcdl2016 Newark, NJ. fox.cs.vt.edu/wadl2016.html
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