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2013 Code4Lib Midwest Conference

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Call for Presenters
*Name, Title, Topic
* Eric Lease Morgan (Digital Projects Librarian, University of Notre Dame) and "[Text Mining in 'Discovery Systems http://zoia.library.nd.edu/sandbox/textmining4libraries/Text Mining in 'Discovery Systems]'" - This short presentation will describe what text mining is, and then it will demonstrate how text mining can be integrated into library "discovery systems". The goal of the presentation is to increase the awareness of digital humanities computing techniques and to encourage the library profession to embrace them as a way of making collections more useful.
* Peter Schlumpf (Avanti Library Systems) and "Avanti Nova: A Semantic Mapping System" - This presentation will introduce and demonstrate the latest work on Avanti Nova, a semantic mapping software. Nova provides a new and useful way of doing some things. The basic concepts, principles and how it works will be explained, and there will be a demonstration of the software implementing a library catalogue.