Opening Keynote: Grand Challenges Summit on Information Science and Scholarly Communication
Kate Zwaard, March 19, 2018, 9am EDT
Kate Zwaard
Kate Zwaard is the chief of National Digital Initiatives at the Library of Congress, where she leads a new group focused on digital innovation and expanding the use of the digital collections. She previously managed the Digital Repository Development team, contributing leadership, code and a passion for the mission of the agency. Under her technical direction, the Library of Congress ingested three petabytes (equivalent to 3 million gigabytes) of digital collections, including web archives, the first born-digital manuscript collections, 10 million Chronicling America newspaper pages and three-fourths of a trillion tweets.
Location: Bartos Theater, E15 Weisner Building
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- Date:
- Monday, March 19, 2018
- Time:
- 9:00am - 10:30am
- Location:
- TBD
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