In this final workshop of the series, presenters will share how they approached description projects for special collections at their universities. Projects include: reparative description for Nazi publications identified in the collection, expanding access to electronic agricultural extension reports through non-English language subject headings, and...
The MWDL Governing Body will hold its semi-annual meeting on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 from 10:30-12 (Mountain).
Curious about standardized rights statements? Standardized rights statements help increase access and reuse of your items. By providing rights in the form of a machine-readable URI, users can facet on rights in the DPLA interface and open access items can be shared by DPLA to...
The 2024 Annual Conference will be held from May 29 to June 1, 2024 in Reno, Nevada, at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. MWDL is a CIMA 2024 Conference sponsor! Registration Schedule: March 18, 2024: Registration opens (in-person and...
Does your metadata contain values that don’t align with controlled vocabularies commonly used in the GLAM sector? Learn how to reconcile metadata with OpenRefine, a popular data cleaning tool that can help you with metadata prep for DPLA. The Outreach & Assessment and Metadata Working...
Engage in inquiry using the C3 Framework and the Library of Congress’ digital primary sources at the Boise State University in Boise, ID from June 10-12, 2024. National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) is proud to invite methods professors, doctoral students, and classroom teachers...
Join us for our first event in the Resourcefully Assessing — Critical Approaches to Assessment series, hosted by the Outreach & Assessment working group. This series will explore a variety of assessment strategies for different resource and collection types. In this coffee chat, Joanna Schimizzi will discuss...
Join DPLA on Monday, July 8, for the next Open Board + Community Meeting to hear all the latest from DPLA and more about what’s coming next. Please register here. More on DPLA's Board Members.
Please join the DPLA Wikimedia Working Group (WWG) for an overview of metrics and tracking tools across Wikimedia Platforms. Together we will look at metrics and tools from across Wikimedia while offering advice for institutions currently involved in, or looking to get involved in the...
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 toolkit. Presenters are: Ranti...
MWDL, it's been way too long! Please join us on Friday, August 9, 2024 for a much-overdue, in-person member meeting! We'll get reacquainted, welcome new faces, and get caught up with all the latest around the network. Our preliminary agenda includes: Updates on MWDL &...
MWDL will have its quarterly metadata harvest by DPLA in the final week of August. Harvests occur regularly in February, May, August and November. Please let us know if you would like any collections added by submitting this form.
