Registration Deadline for Joint Upper Midwest Digital Collections / CONTENTdm Meeting is Friday, July 29
July 28, 2016
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(via Margaret Chambers, CARLI, on behalf of UMDCC)
Registration ends Friday, July 29, for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting, taking place on August 9-11 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Don’t miss out on this regional opportunity to connect with your digital collections colleagues. Register now!
The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC16) features the following events.
- keynote speaker Trevor Owens on IMLS’s national digital platform priority
- workshops on metadata for oral history collections, copyright, and managing born-digital content (seats available)
- presentations on a range of topics from A/V digitization to web archiving to community engagement
- tours of local museums and archives
The CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting includes the following activities.
- keynote panel with Bruce Washburn and Jeff Mixter of OCLC Research and the Strategic Advisory Group for Digital Collections: “CONTENTdm Data Refinery: A Linked Data Pilot Study”
- a CONTENTdm product update and Q&A with Product Manager Shane Huddleston
- a preview of the next phase of CONTENTdm development
- presentations from CONTENTdm users
Registration fees
- $55 for Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (August 9)
- $35 for workshops (August 10)
- $0 for CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting (August 10-11)
The conference is organized by Minitex, WiLS, and RAILS (Reaching Across Illinois Library System), along with a regional planning committee. The UMDCC sponsors include Holder Printworks, Minitex, and St. Ambrose University Library. The CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting is sponsored by OCLC; their support means that this portion of the conference is free to current and potential CONTENTdm users.
For more information, visit the conference website.
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