ACURIL IT SIG and dLOC related news!

[Laurie N. Taylor]

Dear all,

It was great seeing so many folks at ACURIL this past week! I am writing now to share several updates.

Thanks to all of our presenters and translators for the presentations and workshops at ACURIL! Slides from the workshops are available in dLOC:

• Dutch Caribbean Digital Platform, ACURIL 2016; June 9, 2016: http://dloc.com/l/AA00040760/00003
  
• What Are the Digital Humanities (DH)? DH is What We Do With It!: http://dloc.com/l/AA00040760/00002
  
• Digital Humanities at the University of Kansas: A Libraries / Academic Partnership: http://dloc.com/l/AA00040760/00005
  
• The Importance of Being Meta Metadata): http://www.dloc.com/AA00040902/00001
  
• Tonya St. Julien's slides will be forthcoming. Please reply-all to share other slides and materials with the list!
  

The report on the ACURIL IT SIG activities at ACURIL is here: http://dloc.com/l/AA00002027/00009

Please note our thanks to: Chelsea Dinsmore for delivering a workshop on Metadata (and Chocolate); and to Johnny Saintelus (National Archives of Haiti), Luc Steve Honore (National Library of Haiti), and Marie-France Guillaume (Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Frères de l'Instruction Chrètienne) for their translation and discussion support; dLOC Partners for presenting and sharing their excellent work; Tonya St. Julien for presenting and sharing her research; Lianne Leonara for delivering a workshop on the Digital Humanities; and Brian Rosenblum for delivering a workshop presentation on the Digital Humanities at the University of Kansas.

Related news of interests includes dLOC being nominated for the DLF Community Capacity Award (See the full list of nominees on the DLF website.) and collaboration on  the award-winning webinar series: Diversity Award from the Society of American Archivists to the Latin American & Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable's Webinar Series (LACCHA Webinars, co-sponsored by dLOC and ACURIL): The Latin American & Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives (LACCHA) Roundtable webinar series, co-sponsored by dLOC and ACURIL, “Desmantelando Fronteras/Breaking Down Borders,” is the 2016 recipient of the Society of American Archivists' Diversity Award. This award recognizes an individual, group, or institution for outstanding contributions in advancing diversity within the archives profession, SAA, or the archival record. (Full announcement)

dLOC is also cited as a leader that supported and enabled the new #sxarchipelagos: http://smallaxe.net/sxarchipelagos/about.html

As a reminder, this is the email list for ACURIL’s Information Technology- Special Interest Group (ITSIG), it is used to: Send announcements on webinars; Discuss and plan community digital library and digital scholarship activities, including the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC); Discuss formal activities for the group, and conduct informal discussions on various concerns. Please share ideas and interests in topics for future webinars, and for other activities of the ACURIL IT SIG.

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Kindest regards,

ACURIL ITSIG Chair:  
Laurie N. Taylor, University of Florida, lau...@ufl.edu
(prior chair and co-chairs:  Judith Rogers, University of the Virgin Islands, jro...@uvi.edu; Mark V. Sullivan, University of Florida and now SobekDigital, mark.v....@gmail.com)