*We are pleased to announce a new BitCurator Consortium webinar on the
BitCurator NLP <https://bitcurator.net/bitcurator-nlp/> project! The
webinar is free and open to the public and will be held on April 20, 2018
at 12pm ET. Please register for the webinar here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bcc-webinar-bitcurator-nlp-project-registration-44407401734
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bcc-webinar-bitcurator-nlp-project-registration-44407401734>The
BitCurator NLP project has been developing software for collecting
institutions to extract, analyze, and produce reports on features of
interest in text extracted from born-digital materials. The project is
adapting existing natural language processing (NLP) software to identify
and report on items likely to be relevant to ongoing preservation,
information organization, and access, including entities (e.g. persons,
places, and organizations), potential relationships among entities, and
topic models to provide insight into how concepts are naturally clustered
within the documents. In this webinar current versions of BCA Webtools and
the BitCurator NLP tools will be demonstrated. The webinar will conclude
with a discussion of future directions.The webinar will be led by Cal Lee
and Kam Woods from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School
of Information and Library Science.There are no prerequisites for this
webinar. However, it is designed for users already familiar with the basic
operations of the BitCurator environment. The webinar will be roughly one
hour, including at least 10 minutes for Q&A at the end. The webinar will be
recorded and made available publicly on the BitCurator Consortium website.*

Sam Meister
Preservation Communities Manager, Educopia Institute
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