News Updates Jian Qin presents at Science of Science Summer School, August 5, 2021 On August 5th, Jian Qin presented at the Science of Science Summer School (S4) webinar events. S4 is a Syracuse University collaborative initiative featuring a wide range of mentors and speakers. Dr. Jian Qin offered her presentation on Evaluating The Impact of Collaboration Enablers Through Metadata analytics in early august.August 9, 2021 Jian Qin presents at JDIS conference, June 21-23, 2021 As per the invitation on behalf of the Journal of Information and Data Science (JDIS), Jian Qin has given a presentation on metadata analytics at the 3rd International Conference on Data-driven Knowledge Discovery.July 20, 2021 Metadata lab announces MetaFAIR application profile 1.0 The MetaFAIR application profile (AP) was developed by the Metadata Lab team with the intent of reinforcing research data management (RDM) while making research data abide by the FAIR data principles.July 10, 2021 Two papers accepted for ASIST 2021 Two papers written by members of the Metadata Lab have been accepted for the ASIST 2021 conference. The first paper, Named Entity Disambiguation for Archival Collections: Metadata Wikidata, and Linked Data, is concerned with detailing the team’s “experimentation with one entity linking system called OpenTapioca… June 29, 2021 Metadata Lab presents poster on linking mechanisms in data repositories The Metadata Lab team has presented a poster reporting on various linking mechanisms in the NCBI BioSample database. The team applied the FAIR data principles to examine link types and their functionality. Ultimately, the authors gained insight into the role of linking mechanisms in biomedical research and discovery. June 17, 2021