ATGthePodcast 327 - A Conversation with Ben Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School

Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Ben Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School. Ben initially trained as an astrophysicist with a PhD in Human Computer Interaction, but he isn't out there looking for asteroids these days. He is currently an editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly and teaches an MLIS course. He says moving from telescope pipelines and understanding all the questions around how astronomers make catalogs of stars and celestial objects out of images isn't too dissimilar from questions around OCRing large-scale document collections.  Ben also talks with Michael about how his grandmother survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and the time he spent after college in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and in their archive, and digital questions led him to apply for a computer science program. He also talks with Michael about creating Newspaper Magazine, an archive of documentation of hundreds of millions of pages pertaining to survivors and victims of the Holocaust. Michael presented at the CNI Fall Conference on AI and Libraries, and says he believes fully open sciences is the best way forward and really our only way forward if we are to do this right. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/sDOn4MMuVOk Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ Keyword #KnowledgePreservation #ProblemSolver #Access #Research #ResearchTools #LearningResources #EdTechTools #LibraryResources #InformationProfessionals #AcademicLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts