The rise of automated assistants such as Alexa, Siri, and Cortana raise the prospects for compelling, new forms of information discovery. Underlying the heart of these systems are information graphs in the form of linked data. As computational techniques and processing power grows, it becomes possible to imagine a world of where one could simply ask questions relating to complex topics or queries that go beyond purchasing items or asking about the weather. Companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon and publishers such as Elsevier have invested significant resources into the development and analysis of information graphs. Have libraries and non-profit publishers developed similar capabilities?
What is the role of metadata in this type of environment? Is there a role for metadata in such a scenario? This keynote presentation offers a glimpse of possible future scenarios based on the usage of information graphs and poses questions regarding the role of metadata and the organizations that produce, manage, and preserve metadata.
G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Research Data Management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He is a President Obama appointee to the National Museum and Library Services Board.
Choudhury is a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. He is also a member of the Board of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and a member of the Advisory Board for OpenAIRE2020. He has been a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, the ICPSR Council, the DuraSpace Board, Digital Library Federation advisory committee, Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance Coordinating Committee, Federation of Earth Scientists Information Partnership (ESIP) Executive Committee and the Project MUSE Advisory Board. He has been a Senior Presidential Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources, a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins and a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the recipient of the 2012 OCLC/LITA Kilgour Award. He has testified for the Research Subcommittee of the Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Choudhury has served as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library of Congress' NDIIPP, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Microsoft Research, and a Maryland based venture capital group.
He is the Product Owner for the Data Conservancy which focuses on the development of data curation infrastructure. He has oversight for data curation research and development and data archive implementation at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has published articles in journals such as the International Journal of Digital Curation, D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, First Monday, and Library Trends. He has served on committees for the Digital Curation Conference, Open Repositories, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and Web-Wise. He has presented at various conferences including Educause, CNI, JISC-CNI, DLF, ALA, ACRL, and international venues including IFLA, the Kanazawa Information Technology Roundtable, eResearch Australasia, the North America-China Conference, eResearch New Zealand and the Arabian-Gulf Chapter of the Special Libraries Conference. — EDUCAUSE
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