In this DPLA Network Coffee Chat, representatives from the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), Ohio Digital Network, and DPLA will discuss their recent collaboration to share over 350,000 images from CML’s digital collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia in July. In the first two months, these...
Are you “hungry” for resources that will inspire rich discussion in your classes? Join the DPLA Outreach & Assessment Working Group and Joanna to explore the Primary Source Sets from DPLA, including this example – “Feeding the Hungry with Food Stamp Programs.” In this session,...
Call for Papers The Digital Humanities Utah Executive Committee invites proposals for presentations at DHU8 (February 23–24, 2024). DHU8 will take place in person only at Marriott Library, University of Utah. Proposals are due by November 1, 2023. Submit a Proposal General CFP DHU invites submissions for...
The MWDL Governing Body (current roster) will meet virtually on Friday, November 3 at 10 AM Mountain/9 AM Pacific. The meeting agenda includes: Welcome new members (Emily, All) New Governing Body Guidelines review (Emily) Director update on activities (Teresa) GB decides which folks will roll...
The DLF Forum, Learn@DLF, and NDSA’s Digital Preservation are multi-day experiences for learning, networking, and skill-building seeking to inspire and connect a community of digital library, museum, archives, and cultural heritage practitioners. Conference program now available. Early bird registration ends August 15.
In 2022-2023, the DPLA Metadata Working Group analyzed metadata guidelines and best practices across hubs, summarizing them in the Metadata Best Practices Report. The Report included a list of recommendations, which was then distributed to the hubs network for their input to help inform the...
Introduction Join us to learn more about D-CRAFT (Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit)! Anyone working with digital collections at galleries, libraries, archives, museums, or repositories may find this session useful. Three members of the D-CRAFT project team will share project history and introduce the...
Join the DPLA Metadata and Outreach & Assessment Working Groups on Wednesday, February 7 for a 1-hour session on everyone's favorite metadata tool: OpenRefine! Helen Baer (Digital Projects Librarian, Colorado State University Libraries) will present and attendees will: understand how OpenRefine works, including technical setup...
The 8th Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU8) will be held on February 23 & 24, 2024 at The University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. DHU8 welcomes humanities scholars from across the Intermountain West and beyond. We especially invite early career scholars, graduate students, newcomers to the digital humanities (DH),...
In this presentation, National Archives Catalog Community Managers Nancy Sullivan and Suzanne Isaacs will introduce the National Archives’ Citizen Archivist program. They will demonstrate how volunteers can transcribe, tag, and comment on records in the National Archives Catalog. Nancy and Suzanne will highlight the Revolutionary...
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) and Utah Historical Society (UHS) will hold their joint conference April 11-13, 2024! This year's theme is Historical Urgency. The preliminary program is available and early-bird registration runs through February 28, 2024.
This webinar is hosted by DPLA's Metadata Working Group: Capturing information about gender and sexuality in descriptive metadata often surfaces questions and unique considerations about how to effectively maximize exposure of diverse collections without mislabeling or putting members of vulnerable communities at increased risk. At...
