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!
At a recent webinar, Lizzy Baus summarized new information about BIBFRAME and library linked data projects gleaned from sessions at the 2016 American Library Association Annual Conference and a recent NISO virtual conference. You can watch the recording for free here.
New this year! We added half day workshops to the program for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, taking place at St. Ambrose University, Davenport Iowa, August 9-11, 2016. Topics include copyright and related issues in digital content, making oral histories more discoverable, and useful tools for managing born-digital content. Visit the registration webpage for the full conference program details. Registration ends July 29.
Register now for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (UMDCC) & CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting, taking place August 9-11, at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa. We've just added more information about the keynote speakers on the conference website. Registration is open through July 29, 2016.
Minitex is offering a free webinar called "New and next: A review of BIBFRAME update sessions from NISO and ALA" on July 12, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Register on the Minitex website.
During the NISO virtual conference on BIBFRAME & Real World Applications of Linked Data, Carolyn Hansen gave a clear and informative presentation on BIBFRAME, giving a general overview as well as addressing some challenges and recent developments.
At the June 15 NISO virtual conference "BIBFRAME & Real World Applications of Linked Data" Tim Thompson from Princeton University Library discussed how they plan to represent handwritten annotations from Jacques Derrida's personal library using RDF vocabularies and ontologies.
Registration is now open for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting, August 9-11 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Join your digital collections colleagues in the Quad Cities for three days of networking, sharing of best practices, and hands-on learning.
ALCTS (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of ALA) is offering a series of two webinars on LC Classification (LCC). Hosted by Minnesota's own Bobby Bothmann in September, the Introduction level webinar will "briefly introduce the history of LC Classification (LCC) and the general principles of classification," while the Intermediate level "will focus on the selection and construction of LC Classification (LCC) call numbers."
The 2nd Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC16) will be held on August 9-11th at St. Ambrose University campus, Davenport, Iowa (Quad Cities). The conference will be held jointly with the 2016 CONTENTdm User Group Meeting, sponsored by OCLC, on August 10-11th. Registration opens in June, but group hotel rate options are now up on the conference website.
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