Digital Collections
Minitex News articles tagged with "Digital Collections" (117):
Recap: Minitex Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference
Over 130 people attended the 2018 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference on November 8-9 at St. Catherine University. The conference included 3 pre-conference workshops, a keynote by Abigail Potter from the Library of Congress Digital Labs, and 18 breakout sessions. The majority of attendees were from academic libraries and archives, but also from historical society and museum communities.
DPLAfest 2019 Call for Proposals now open
DPLA is seeking proposals for DPLAfest, a gathering that will explore how libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural organizations across the country leverage technology to serve, inform, and empower communities. They invite proposals that showcase projects, ideas, and solutions designed to help the field meet the technological, social, and civic demands of the 21st century and that highlight the critical role of libraries—and the DPLA network—in shaping the future of access to digital knowledge. The deadline to submit a session proposal is Friday, January 11, 2019.
Registration ends soon for Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference
Registration ends November 1st for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC18) at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. View the full conference schedule or register now.
Pre-conference workshops filling up for 2018 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference
Pre-conference workshop seats are filling up for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC18) at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. View the full conference schedule or register now.
Registration open for 2018 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference
Registration is now open for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC18) at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Registration opening soon for 2018 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference
The 2018 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC18) will be held on November 8-9th at St. Catherine University campus, St. Paul, Minnesota. The planning committee is working hard to finalize a great program and plans to open registration after Labor Day. In the meantime, here is more information about the program and cost to attend.
MDL staff member teaches at Summer Educational Institute
During the first week of June, I headed to Albuquerque, New Mexico to teach at the 2018 Summer Educational Institute (SEI). SEI is an annual, residential workshop co-sponsored by the Visual Resources Association Foundation and the Art Libraries Society of North America. SEI provides new and emerging information professionals with a substantive educational and professional development opportunity focused on digital collections, project management, digital preservation, intellectual property, digital humanities, and metadata for digital collections.
University Libraries Creates New Platform for Newspaper Card Index Collection
University of Minnesota Libraries has unveiled a new platform for the Historic Minneapolis Newspaper Card Index.
Deadline approaching: Submit proposals now for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference
The Wednesday, June 13th deadline is fast approaching to submit a program proposal for the 2018 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC18), taking place November 8th-9th, at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota. You can help make this a great conference! Consider sharing your experience and expertise by submitting a program proposal for a session, workshop, or lightning presentation. The planning committee has created a list of potential topics of interest, but proposals on all relevant topics are welcome.
NDSA publishes new report on file monitoring practices
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Fixity Survey Working Group announced the publication of the 2017 Fixity Survey Report. A common practice in digital preservation management, fixity checking is the act of reviewing digital content to make sure that it has not changed over time. Though an abundance of tools and methods for fixity checking exist, up to this point, there have been no established best practices. To better understand the common practices and challenges that exist for fixity checking, the NDSA Fixity Working Group published a survey in fall of 2017.