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...
Join DPLA on Monday, April 22, for their next Open Board + Community Meeting to hear all the latest from DPLA and more about what’s coming next.
Every Indigenous community has cultural and biological knowledge within educational systems, archives, libraries, and museums that they do not own, do not control, and cannot govern circulation over. Local Contexts is a global nonprofit organization that was founded to address the needs of Indigenous communities and local...
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...
