This year's SWIB will start in 19 days. If you haven't yet, please register: https://swib.org/swib24/registration.html
There will be a lineup of seven hands-on workshops on Monday, 25th November, spread over three time slots (see screenshot). Make sure to register for participation via the SWIB forum: https://forum.swib.org/t/workshops-at-swib24/134 #swib24
Let's follow-up with a thread introducing each #swib24 workshop separately. Find the overview of all SWIB24 workshops at https://forum.swib.org/t/workshops-at-swib24/134
"Getting started with local LLMs", the only #SWIB24 workshop in the early East Asia/Australia time slot (04:00–08:00 UTC on 25 November), facilitated by Nishad Thalhath. From the workshop description: "Local large language models (LLMs) are becoming popular due to their privacy-first approach, security, and cost-effectiveness. This workshop introduces participants to the basics of setting up and running local LLMs using open-source tools". Sign up at https://forum.swib.org/t/workshop-getting-started-with-local-llms/135
"Introduction to property graphs", a #SWIB24 in the Europe/Africa timeslot (08:00-12:00 UTC on 25 November), facilitated by @nichtich. From the workshop description: "Property Graphs are a powerful and flexible data structure used to represent relationships and properties based on graphs. The tutorial will give an introduction to property graphs including a comparision with RDF and how to map between both data structuring languages." Sign up at https://forum.swib.org/t/workshop-introduction-to-property-graphs/136
"Introduction to #Annif automated indexing tool", a #SWIB24 workshop in the Europe/Africa timeslot (08:00-12:00 UTC on 25 November), facilitated by @osma et al. From the workshop description: "This workshop offers an introduction to the multilingual automated indexing tool, Annif. Participants will gain hands-on experience with Annif by setting it up, training its algorithms with sample data, and generating subject suggestions for new documents." Sign up at https://forum.swib.org/t/workshop-introduction-to-annif-automated-indexing-tool/139
"Leveraging Zurich Zentralbibliothek’s Jupyter Notebooks for metadata retrieval and analysis from Alma", a #SWIB24 workshop in the Europe/Africa timeslot (08:00-12:00 UTC on 25 November), facilitated by Linda Samsinger. From the workshop description: "Zurich Zentralbibliothek (ZB) has developed a powerful, versatile and user-friendly series of seven Jupyter Notebooks to search, download and analyze library data from the Alma-based SLSP catalog" Sign up at https://forum.swib.org/t/workshop-leveraging-zurich-zentralbibliothek-s-jupyter-notebooks-for-metadata-retrieval-and-analysis-from-alma/140
"The Open Research Knowledge Graph – a lighthouse in the publication flood", a #SWIB24 workshop in the Europe/Africa timeslot (08:00-12:00 UTC on 25 November), facilitated by Anna-Lena Lorenz. From the workshop description: The Open Research Knowledge Graph (#ORKG) aims to provide a solution to the challenge of an ever growing flood of publications.The workshop will give a brief introduction to ORKG’s vision, followed by instructions on using the platform. Sign up at https://forum.swib.org/t/workshop-the-open-research-knowledge-graph-a-lighthouse-in-the-publication-flood/141
"Fail4Lib @ SWIB24", a #SWIB24 workshop in the Americas timeslot (17:00-21:00 UTC on 25 November), facilitated by Andreas Orphanides. From the workshop description: "Fail4Lib is a workshop dedicated to discussing and coming to terms with the failures that we all encounter in our work as information professionals. Fail4Lib is a safe space for us to explore failure, to talk about our own experiences with failure, and to encourage enlightened risk taking." Sign up at https://forum.swib.org/t/workshop-fail4lib-swib24/137
"Publish & reconcile against #SKOS vocabularies with #SkoHub", a #SWIB24 workshop in the Americas timeslot (17:00-21:00 UTC on 25 November), facilitated by @steffenr42, @tobiasnx & @Maipet. From the workshop description: "This hands-on workshop will guide participants through the process of publishing controlled vocabularies encoded in SKOS using SkoHub Pages. After that we will see how to use these vocabularies in reconciliation tasks with SkoHub Reconcile." Sign up at https://forum.swib.org/t/workshop-publish-reconcile-against-skos-vocabularies-with-skohub/138/1