Digital Collections
Minitex News articles tagged with "Digital Collections" (116):
Minitex introduction to digital preservation virtual course offered
While many of the traditional resources found in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions--books, photographs, objects--can survive for years with no intervention, digital content is much more fragile. Managing it requires ongoing care and preservation activities to ensure continued access far into the future. This online training series--based on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program curriculum--introduces fundamental concepts for managing your digital content over time through a series of six modules delivered in three sessions.
New Library of Congress crowdsourcing platform launches
The Library of Congress recently launched a new crowdsourcing platform, crowd.loc.gov. The platform will improve discovery and access to LC's digital collections, with help from volunteers. The most recent project, Letters to Lincoln Challenge, challenged volunteers to transcribe 28,000 digitized pages written by or to Abraham Lincoln by the end of 2018. Transcribing the handwritten letters makes the text machine readable and searchable to historians and other researchers.
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.