Digital Directions: Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference

[Kristen Whitson]

Hello, digital stewardship colleagues:

The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference is taking place in St. Paul, MN next May, and the call for proposals is currently open. This is a friendly and supportive conference for folks working with digital collections of all shapes and sizes.

From the call for proposals: "In your work, what have you learned along the way? What would you share with other practitioners if they were to do a similar project? Have you recently completed a project or are you planning a new one?  Whether you're fine-tuning existing collections or embarking on new initiatives, come join us to discuss the future of digital collections work together." 

Suggested Topics

• Inclusive metadata projects (e.g. traditional knowledge labels and notices) and other DEIA practices in digital collections
• Digital genealogy work
• Growth and management of audiovisual collections
• Artificial intelligence in digital collections work
• Working with community-centered collections/archives
• Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) issues and initiatives
• Initiatives in digital cultural heritage storytelling
• Re-evaluating/auditing digital collections (remediation projects and other best practices for reviewing content)
• Open source digital content management systems/migrating to new systems
• America 250 initiatives
• Crowdsourcing digital projects
• Changing landscape for national and other large-scale digital collections
• Future directions in digital collections work

Please consider submitting a proposal on any of your digital collections initiatives you think would be of benefit to your colleagues!

Thanks,

Kristen

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Kristen Whitson (she/her) Digital Specialist and Consortia Manager WiLS & Recollection Wisconsin kri...@wils.org  |  608.571.3941  |  wils.org ________________________________________ Join us on Friday, December 13th at 1:00 pm CT to discuss the occasionally overlooked benefits of the WiLS Cooperative Purchasing Program that can save your organization time and money.