Charleston Conference 2024
The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, in November, to discuss issues of importance to the library and scholarly publishing landscape. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a non-threatening, friendly, and highly informal environment. Presidents of companies discuss and debate with library directors, acquisitions librarians, reference librarians, serials librarians, collection development librarians, and many, many others. Begun in 1980, the Charleston Conference has grown from 20 participants in 1980 to almost 2,500 in 2023.
Digital Science is proud to be a Gold Sponsor for this year’s conference and is also taking part in the Vendor Showcase. We will be hosting a sponsored luncheon on Wednesday, November 13th from 12:00pm – 1:00pm at the Share House.
Sponsored Luncheon
Title: Getting Practical with AI
Generative AI-tools are all around us from Grammarly and Writefull integrating into who we write, to Gamma AI to help us write slides and Perplexity AI and Dimensions GPT to help us answer our questions. We explore the practical side of AI: What should you know about the tools that are available? What are the downsides and where can they be used with confidence? What are the environmental implications of using these technologies and what are the implications for research, for learning, for teaching and for libraries? We don’t have all the answers but we look forward to a lively discussion with those of you who come to learn and to share their experiences.
Daniel Hook
CEO of Digital Science
Daniel Hook
CEO of Digital Science
Daniel Hook has served as CEO of Digital Science since 2015. From 2003-2013, he was a co-founder and CEO of Symplectic, a research information management provider. Daniel has been a co-chair at the Research on Research Institute and a board member at ORCID. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and maintains visiting positions at Imperial College London and Washington University in St Louis, where he continues to pursue his research interests in his spare time.