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Courses
Courses
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University Life
University Life
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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
Since 1845, University of Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
University of Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni & Friends
Alumni & Friends
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At University of Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Accessibility & LanguageConference Programme
Pre-conference tour – Wednesday 20th July
Our team of Student Ambassadors will guide a small group of visitors in a walking tour around the grounds of NUI Galway to view the campus facilities, locations of academic buildings and student services and to experience what it would be like to work or study at our beautiful riverside campus.
Campus tour will take approximately 40 minutes, with an additional 20 minutes at the end for you to chat to our student ambassadors and ask any questions you may have.
The tour takes place at 2pm. Booking is required in advance and costs €2.00.
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Walking tour of NUI Galway |
14:00 |
Day 1 – Thursday 21st July
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NUI Galway Welcome and conference logistics – Emma Goode, NUI Galway |
08:45 |
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Welcome and opening remarks – Dr Edmund Balnaves (Chair, IT Section) |
08:50 |
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Introduction: John Cox, University Librarian, NUI Galway |
09:00 |
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Keynote Speaker, Dr Paul Buitelaar, Deputy Director Data Science Institute, NUI Galway and Co-PI of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics: AI in the Library: A Short Introduction to AI |
09:20 |
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Stream 1: AI In Practice |
Stream 2: AI Implementation |
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Emmanuelle Bermès, Neil Fitzgerald: AI4LAM |
Dr Ray Uzwyshyn: Steps Towards Building Library AI Infrastructures: Research Data Repositories, Scholarly Research Ecosystems and AI Scaffolding |
10:30 |
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Tea break |
11:15 |
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Dr Mojca Rupar Korošec: Artificial intelligence is already in libraries, let's master it |
Dr Edmund Balnaves: Libraries and AI - practical examples of AI in use and design considerations |
11:30 |
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Dr Lynn Kleinveldt: The use of AI to assist IL integration across subjects and levels to support students acquiring 21st century skills for the world of work |
Itai Veltzman: The Ex Libris journey for Artificial Intelligence in Libraries |
12:15 |
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Lunch |
13:00 |
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Jean-Philippe Moreux: AI and image analysis at the BnF: experience feedback |
14:00 |
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Panel discussion |
14:45 |
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Tea break |
15:15 |
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Workshops |
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Ethics and AI - Dr Andrew Cox, University of Sheffield |
15:30 - 17:30 |
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Reception & Dinner (welcome from Ex Libris) |
19:00 |
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Day 2 – Friday 22nd July
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Library tour |
08:30 |
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Welcome – May Chang, University of Cincinnati |
09:10 |
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Keynote Speaker, Dr Andrew Cox, University of Sheffield: Artificial Intelligence: what's our story? |
09:20 |
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Stream 1: Ethics and AI in context |
Stream 2: Machine Learning |
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Josette Riep; Dr Annu Prabhakar: Toward Bias Conscious Artificial Intelligence for Student Success in Higher Education |
Thomas Zaragoza;Aline Le Provost;Yann Nicolas: From text to data inside bibliographic records. Entity recognition and entity linking of contributors and their roles from statements of responsibility |
10:30 |
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Tea break |
11:15 |
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Karolina Andersdotter: The AI and Libraries Study Circle: how 100 library professionals increased their AI literacy |
Anna Kasprzik: Get everybody on board and get going – the automatization of subject indexing at ZBW |
11:30 |
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Céline Leclaire and Lucie Termignon: For an ethics of personalised recommendation at the French National Library |
Martin Malmsten: Without heading? - fully automated linked subject systems creation |
12:15 |
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Lunch |
13:00 |
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Florian Engel: Automatic indexing using AI methods – a project insight at the German National Library |
14:00 | |
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Panel discussion |
14:45 |
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Tea break |
15:15 |
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Workshops |
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Building Open source Chatbots – Dr Edmund Balnaves |
15:30 |
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Closing remarks – Dr Edmund Balnaves & Emma Goode |
16:30 |
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