SIM is hiring a part-time academic to teach the following course in the summer 2022 term:
Please apply through PeopleAdmin, via the links above.
Questions? Email sim@dal.ca
2022 SIM Research Day (April 7th)
Please join us for (virtual) SIM Research Day to hear about the exciting research projects our graduate students and colleagues are working on. Featuring virtual lightning talks from graduate students, alumni, and professionals. All presentations will be 3 minutes + 2 minutes for questions. This event is free and open to all. No need to RSVP. Simply click the link below to join.
Feel free to share. This event will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel.
Via Microsoft Teams (<–click link at above date/time to join. If you already have Teams, it will open. If you do not have Teams, you can watch in your browser – move the Teams download request window and click the option to open in browser. Note: Safari is NOT recommended due to issues with video and audio. Instructions for downloading Teams are attached if needed).
Click here for the full event schedule
Click here to learn more about research in the School of Information Management.
You’re invited: Virtual MI Meet & Greet (March 28th)
Attention IM professionals/employers:
Dear colleagues,
You’re invited to the Master of Information (MI) Program Meet and Greet event, on Monday March 28, from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (AT) / 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm (ET).
This event is to provide an opportunity for students to meet employers in the library and information management field and for a chance for employers to meet the graduating class, as well as the first year students, looking for summer employment. It is also a chance for you to network with your colleagues and give back to the profession. Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues.
The event will be held on the Wonder Virtual Event platform. (More information about this platform can be found below.)
Please RSVP by March 25 to: https://forms.office.com/r/9zNfdiKdPx
(We like to have a sense of who is coming so students can be better prepared with their questions for you.)
A link to the Wonder platform will be sent to you closer to the event date.
I hope to see you there!
Thanks for your support of our students,
Sincerely,
Sandra
Using Wonder
Wonder is an event platform that allows you to navigate a virtual room and engage in individual or group conversations as you would in a physical room.
You can try it out in a test room we have created: https://app.wonder.me?spaceId=3d2be8bb-36a5-4241-9aa8-8e18f2398796
Read more about using Wonder at https://help.wonder.me/en/articles/5627532-a-guest-s-guide-everything-you-need-to-know
A few additional notes about Wonder:
- Supported Devices & Browsers
- Wonder is designed for use on desktop and laptop computers and is supported with Google Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge.
- Wonder is not currently supported by tablets (including Ipads) or mobile devices.
- Privacy and GDPR: https://wonder.me/gdpr
Sandra Toze, PhD (she/her)
Director, School of Information Management (SIM)
Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University
Provenance in Place: A Symposium
Provenance in Place: A symposium
12pm – 5pm Eastern Time
Monday March 7, 2022
Globally, the archival legacies of colonialism look much the same today as they did sixty years ago. Records displaced to Europe have rarely been repatriated, and in still colonised countries, the record-making and -keeping practices of the colonizer continue to attempt to inscribe settler power over Indigenous sovereignty. How to imagine a future in which the archival legacies of colonialism are redressed?
Powerfully articulating a new conceptualization of provenance as “provenance in place”, JJ Ghaddar offers “an understanding of provenance that embraces the commitment to undo the colonial occupation of one people’s land by another today, and the archival legacies of such occupations in the past”. Against the globalization of western European archival tenets “established at a time when the vast majority of people within and beyond Europe were not at the table”, Ghaddar offers a vision of provenance that is grounded in the Third World project and its anticolonial aspirations.
The Archival Technologies Lab at the City University of New York, together with the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, is holding a virtual symposium to discuss provenance-in-place and its possibilities.
Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvduqvrDwqG9OT3RqKgZYnoB644SA_yyO6
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the symposium. This event will not be recorded.
Program
All times in Eastern Time:
12:00 Welcome
12:10 Keynote: “Provenance in Place” JJ Ghaddar (Dalhousie University)
13:00 Respondents: TL Cowan (University of Toronto), Michelle Caswell (University of California, Los Angeles), Tonia Sutherland (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
13:50 Break
14:00 Places as Provenance
Moderator: Nadia Caidi (University of Toronto)
Maria Montenegro (University of California, Irvine)
Forget Chaterera-Zambuko (Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi)
Raymond Frogner (University of Manitoba)
James Lowry (Queens College, CUNY)
15:00 Break
15:10 Imagining Provenance Otherwise
Moderator: Jamie A. Lee (University of Arizona)
Gracen Brilmyer (McGill University)
Riah Lee Kinsey (Queens College, CUNY)
Jessica Lapp (University of Toronto)
Jess Guijarro (Queens College, CUNY)
16:10 Break
16:20 Roundtable Discussion
17:00 Close
Speaker biographies available on the event page.
Contact: james.lowry@qc.cuny.edu
Dr. James Lowry
Assistant Professor
Information Studies, Queens College
City University of New York
IM Public Lecture: Copyright Law and Text and Data Mining: Does the Canadian Copyright Act Need to be Amended? (Lucie Guibault)
The Information Management Public Lectures give attention to exciting advances in research and professional practice. The topics are diverse reflecting the importance and global extent of Information Management in today’s society. The lectures are free of charge and open to all, unless otherwise stated.
All 2021-2022 lectures will be held virtually on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the full schedule. Lecture will be recorded and posted on our YouTube channel.
Dr. Lucie Guibault
Schulich School of Law
Dalhousie University
Lecture Details
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
5:30 to 6:30pm
Microsoft Teams (click link at above date/time to join)
Abstract: Text and Data Mining (TDM) represents an increasingly important research method across a range of scholarly disciplines, as well as in journalism, education, civil society, and a range of commercial research. Text analysis is used in the humanities and social sciences to examine corpi of books, newspapers, social media, transcripts, web sites, historical and government documents, and other data to analyze and document historical events, places, media coverage, topics or themes, and language. Copyright can be a barrier to such initiatives and can have a chilling effect on research, journalism, and civil society projects. Recent empirical research shows that strict or unclear copyright rules have a negative impact on the use of TDM techniques for research purposes. This presentation discusses the status of TDM activities under the Canadian copyright law regime, including the limits of licensing solutions, the applicability and limits of the fair dealing doctrine, before delving into the question of whether a specific copyright exception would provide greater legal certainty for the stakeholders.
Bio: Lucie Guibault is professor of intellectual property law and Director of the Law and Technology Institute at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She joined the Schulich School of Law in July 2017, after spending twenty years at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam. She studied civil law at the Université de Montréal (LLB and LLM) and received in 2002 her doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. Lucie is specialized in international and comparative intellectual property law. Over the years, she has carried out research for numerous European, Canadian and international organizations. Her general research interests revolve around the critical and normative analysis of the copyright system, primarily looking at the impact of technological change on the balance of interests between rights owners and users. She has countless publications on topics relating to copyright and related rights in the information society, open content licensing, collective rights management, limitations and exceptions in copyright, and author’s contract law.