Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference – August 18-19

Join us in Minneapolis for the first-ever Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, August 18-19 at the University of St. Thomas. WiLS is thrilled to be jointly organizing this conference with Minitex. OCLC is providing sponsorship, as the conference will include a Northern CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting on August 18 followed by a more general “all things digital” day on August 19.

Dates & Location
Monday, August 18, 2014
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Tuesday, August 19, 2014
8:30 AM – 4:15 PM

University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus
Schulze Hall, 1000 LaSalle Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Day 1 Cost: No registration fee
Day 2 Cost: $45.00

Twitter hashtag: #allthingsdigital14

Day One: Northern CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting

• Keynote from Matthew Butler of the University of Iowa’s DIY History crowdsourcing initiative

• CONTENTdm update and Q&A with Christian Sarason, CONTENTdm Product Manager

• Six breakout sessions from CONTENTdm users on website customizations, legacy metadata, tab-delimited spreadsheets and providing access to maps and postcards in CONTENTdm

• Subject-specific “birds of a feather” dinners with like-minded colleagues at downtown Minneapolis restaurants

Day Two:  All Things Digital

• Keynote from the New York Public Library Labs’ Matthew Miller

• Twelve breakout sessions from digital content practitioners, including:

  • Building and marketing institutional repositories

  • Understanding linked data

  • The Linked Jazz Project from NYPL Labs

  • Creating interactive timelines

  • Managing research data and born-digital content

  • Digitizing maps, music and local history collections

  • A Digital Public Library of America update

For a full agenda, hotel information and more, visit the conference website.