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Ethical Data Curation in Libraries and Archives: The Dana A. Dorsey Collection (May '25)Jamie Rogers, Florida International University
Rhia Rae, Florida International University
Re-Envisioning the Digital Repository: Showcasing Our Exciting Islandora Solution (January '25)
Chulin Meng, Lehigh University
Joe Corall, Lehigh University
Ontario Universities’ Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Task Force Moves Ahead (August '24)
Jacqueline Whyte Appleby, Scholars Portal
Catherine Steeves, Western University
Strategic Plan 2.0: A Digitally-Infused Strategic Plan for the Library of Congress (February '24)
Leah Weinryb Grohsgal, Library of Congress
Natalie Buda Smith, Library of Congress
Carly Morse, Library of Congress
ArchivesSpace at 10: Reflections on Developing a Sustainable Open-Source Content Management System (November '23)
Jessica Crouch, ArchivesSpace
Christine Di Bella, ArchivesSpace
COVID Information Commons—An Open Portal and Community for Research Collaboration (August '23)
Florence Hudson, Columbia University and Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
View more informationHeld In Trust: Digital Technology in the Context of Cultural Heritage Preservation (August '23)
Pamela Hatchfield, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Foundation for the Advancement of Conservation
Linda Tadic, Digital Bedrock
Paul Messier, Yale University
Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project (August '23)
Chela Scott Weber, OCLC
View more informationExploring Interoperability in Digital Migrations for Special Collections (May '23)
Michael Herrick, San Francisco State University
View more informationExposing Hidden Collections Through Photogrammetry (May '23)
Bill Winston, Washington University in St. Louis
Jennifer Moore, Washington University in St. Louis
Skye Lacerte, Washington University in St. Louis
Robert Morgan, Washington University in St. Louis
Forging the Future by Correcting the Past: Returning Nazi Looted Material from an Academic Library (May '23)
Diane Mizrahchi, University of California, Los Angeles
View more informationHow to Provide Access . . . When Access is Changing (March '23)
Tracy Tolliver, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth Klingenstein, Internet2
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) + Coherent Digital: A New Not-for-Profit and Corporate Partnership (November '22)
Charles Henry, CLIR
Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Coherent Digital
Wayne Graham, CLIR
Carol Mandel, New York University; CLIR
Christian Dupont, Boston College
Data Loss and Recovery: Strategies for Organizational Change (November '22)
Bradley Daigle, University of Virginia
Jill Sexton, North Carolina State University
The LibNFT Project: Leveraging Blockchain-Based Digital Asset Technology to Sustainably Preserve Distinctive Collections and Archives (November '22)
K. Matthew Dames, University of Notre Dame & Association of Research Libraries
Meredith Evans, Society of American Archivists
Michael Meth, San Jose State University
The Preservation to Access Pipeline for the EMI Music Canada Audiovisual Collection (November '22)
Kathryn Ruddock, University of Calgary
Annie Murray, University of Calgary
Reactive and Proactive Archiving of Crisis (November '22)
Sawood Alam, Internet Archive
Quinn Dombrowski, Stanford University
The Robotics Project: Insights on Collecting Complex Multimodal Materials in a Research Ecosystem (November '22)
Brian Mathews, Carnegie Mellon University
Katherine Barbera, Carnegie Mellon University
Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University
The American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project (April '22)
Danielle Emerling, West Virginia University
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“The Public Debut of a Dream”: Doug Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” 60 Years On (April '22)
Gardner Campbell, Virginia Commonwealth University
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AMPlifying AV: Next Steps for the Audiovisual Metadata Platform (March '22)
Jon Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington
Shawn Averkamp, AVP
Collections as Data: Part to Whole — Lessons Learned and Next Steps (March '22)
Thomas Padilla, Center for Research Libraries
Yasmeen Shorish, James Madison University
Digital Archiving for a Volatile Planet: An Update on the Modern Endangered Archives Program (March '22)
Rachel Deblinger, University of California, Los Angeles
Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon Farb, University of California, Los Angeles
Gloria Chacon, University of California, San Diego
Digital Borderlands: Integrating Library Services into Research Workflows through Data-Intensive Humanities Scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (March '22)
Shan Sutton, University of Arizona
Megan Senseney, University of Arizona
Veronica Reyes-Escudero, University of Arizona
Alana Varner, University of Arizona
Experimenting with JSTOR as Open Infrastructure for Primary Source Collections (March '22)
Bruce Heterick, ITHAKA
Clifford Anderson, Vanderbilt University
SNAC Cooperative: Community and Technology Update (March '22)
Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia
Joseph Glass, University of Virginia
Automated Rights Determination to Unlock Public Domain Treasures in Library Collections (December '21)
Stephen Abrams, Harvard University
Suzanne Wones, Harvard University
Kyle Courtney, Harvard University
Mingtao Zhao, Harvard University
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Connecticut Digital Archive in Context: Addressing Systemic Bias in Cultural Heritage Repository Programs (December '21)
Gregory Colati, University of Connecticut
Michael Kemezis, University of Connecticut
Heather Owen, Syracuse University
Rachael Nutt, Syracuse University
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DRAS-TIC Linked Data Platforms for Digital Asset Management (December '21)
Gregory Jansen, University of Maryland
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Endangered But Not Too Late: The State of Digital News Preservation (December '21)
Edward McCain, University of Missouri
Neil Mara, Reynolds Journalism Institute
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From Monolith to a Modern System, and the First-Ever Florida Digital Newspaper Library Portal (December '21)
Todd Digby, University of Florida
Judith Russell, University of Florida
Laurie Taylor, University of Florida
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Is it Time to Give the Digital Public Library of America our Digital Objects? (December '21)
Kenning Arlitsch, Montana State University
Michael Della Bitta, Digital Public Library of America
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Leveraging the Power of Wikimedia to Increase Discovery and Use of Archival Collections (December '21)
Michael Della Bitta, Digital Public Library of America
Leigh Jeremias, Colorado State Library
Giovanna Fontenelle, Wikimedia Foundation
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Machine Learning for Geographic Information Systems: Striving for Scalable Processing of Scanned Map Images (December '21)
Michael Shensky, University of Texas at Austin
Aaron Choate, University of Texas at Austin
Danna Gurari, University of Colorado Boulder
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Moving Email Archives from Theory to Practice (December '21)
Ruby Martinez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Abrams, Harvard University
Matt Teichman, University of Chicago
Chris Prom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Using Machine Learning to Extract WWII Japanese American Incarceree Data (December '21)
Marissa Friedman, University of California, Berkeley
Mary Elings, University of California, Berkeley
Vijay Singh, Doxie.AI
Tracey Tan, Doxie.AI
Cameron Ford, Doxie.AI
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Remote Access to Archives and Special Collections and the Sourcery Project (April '21)
Speakers: Dan Cohen, Greg Colati, Barbara Rockenbach, and Tom Scheinfeldt
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*Aligning Past and Present: The Migration of the Voices of the Holocaust Project (March '21)
Adam Strohm, Illinois Institute of Technology
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*Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community (March '21)
Ruby Martinez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthew Connelly, Columbia University
Gregory Wiedeman, University at Albany, SUNY
Michelle Gallinger, Council of State Archivists
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*Navigating Risk in Post-Custodial Digitization (March '21)
Lindsey Memory, Brigham Young University
Ryan Lee, Brigham Young University
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*Project Update for Celebrating Cuba! Collaborative Collections of Cuban Patrimony (March '21)
Judith Russell, University of Florida
Todd Digby, University of Florida
Laurie Taylor, University of Florida
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*Supporting Multidisciplinary International Research through Collaborative Development (March '21)
Rachel Di Cresce, University of Toronto
Jessica Lockhart, University of Toronto
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Emulation In Action: Applying EaaSI for Research and Study (December '20)
Seth Anderson, Yale University
Ethan Gates, Yale University
Jessica Meyerson, Educopia Institute
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Sourcery: Remote Access to Archives During the Pandemic (December '20)
Wes Hamrick, University of Connecticut
Garrett McComas, University of Connecticut
Sustaining International Partnerships and Building Open Access Collections during COVID-19: Two case studies from the UCLA Library (December '20)
Rachel Deblinger, University of California Los Angeles
Todd Grappone, University of California Los Angeles
Advancements in Digital Preservation: Spectral 3-D Reconstruction of Impressionist Oil Paintings (March '20)
Yi Yang, Pennsylvania State University
View more informationAMP Project Update: Leveraging Machine Learning and Human Expertise for AV Collections Access (March '20)
Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University
Shawn Averkamp, AVP
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Building and Using Collections as Data: Using Machine Learning to Identify Jim Crow Laws (March '20)
Amanda Henley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lorin Bruckner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kimber Thomas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Designing an Inclusive Digital Exhibition Experience (March '20)
Rebecca Yvonne Bayeck, New York Public LIbrary
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Event 201. Why Weren’t We Paying Attention? (March '20)
Toby Green, Coherent Digital
View more informationFlows of Water, Flows of Work: Strategizing Workflows for Data Discovery in the Digitized Southern California Water Documents (March '20)
Jessica Davila Greene, The Claremont Colleges
Jeanine Finn, The Claremont Colleges
Yeisi Ileczko, The Claremont Colleges
Mark Buchholz, The Claremont Colleges
Navigating Communal Rights for Digital Preservation and Open Access (March '20)
Rachel Deblinger, University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon Farb, University of California, Los Angeles
Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
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Review, Appraisal and Triage of Email (RATOM) (March '20)
Christopher (Cal) Lee, University of North Carolina
Kam Woods, University of North Carolina
Sizing Up Archives and Special Collections: Evaluating and Sustaining Our Operations at Scale (March '20)
Chela Scott Weber, OCLC
Gordon Daines, Brigham Young University
Adrian Turner, University of California
Web-Based Digital Maps and the Challenge of Sustainability (March '20)
Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen, Columbia University
Nancy Maron, BlueSky to BluePrint, LLC
A Farewell to Joan Lippincott, and “A Fragmented Landscape, Collaborations Refreshed, and CNI’s 2019-20 Program” (December '19)
Speaker: Clifford Lynch
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3D Scanning and Augmented Reality as a Method to Deliver and Promote Digital Collections in Libraries & Museums (April '19)
Chad Hutchens, University of Wyoming
Tyler Kerr, University of Wyoming
From Talking to Action: Fostering Deep Collaboration Between University Libraries, Museums, and IT (December '18)
Susan Gibbons, Yale University
Louis King, Yale University
Michael Appleby, Yale University
Dale Hendrickson, Yale University
The Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts: New Directions in Scholarship (March '18)
Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel, Johns Hopkins University
View more informationHeard of DevOps? Find Out How this Methodology Can Accelerate Your Ability to Launch New and More Engaging Library/Museum Exhibitions (March '18)
Carl Grant, University of Oklahoma
Twila Camp, University of Oklahoma
Neural Networks: Machine Vision for the Visual Archive (March '18)
Peter Leonard, Yale University
View more informationData Capsule Appliance for Research Analysis of Restricted and Sensitive Data in Academic Libraries (December '17)
Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University
Erik Mitchell, University of California, Berkeley
John Unsworth, University of Virginia
Inna Kouper, Indiana University
Open Educational Resources and the Black Press in America Project (December '17)
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University
Greg Britton, Johns Hopkins University Press
Wendy Queen, Johns Hopkins University/Project MUSE
These Beautiful Things: K-State Libraries Collaborates with Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art to Create an Online Collection Application (November '17)
Jason Bengtson, Kansas State University
View more informationA Linked Data Approach for Humanities Data (March '17)
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University
Jaap Geraerts, University College London
Online Scientific Reference Sample Collections and Shared Linked Data for Heritage Science and Related Disciplines (March '17)
Fenella France, Library of Congress
View more informationAfter the Harvest: Preservation, Access, and Research Services for the 2016 End of Term Web Archive (November '16)
Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive
Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress
Mark Phillips, University of North Texas
Digitized Manuscripts (November '16)
Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University
Sheila Rabun, International Image Interoperability Framework
Alexandra Bolintineanu, University of Toronto
Sian Meikle, University of Toronto
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Preserving Federal Electronic Records: Implementing a New Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration (November '16)
Leslie Johnston, National Archives and Records Administration
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Yours, Mine, or Ours? The Freedom of Information Act Archive: Making the Transition from Faculty Project to Community Resource (November '16)
Barbara Rockenbach, Columbia University
Nancy Maron, BlueSky to BluePrint
Matthew Connelly, Columbia University
Robert Cartolano, Columbia University
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Activist Stewardship: The Imperative of Risk in Collecting Cultural Heritage (April '16)
Speakers: Todd Grappone, Lisa McAuly, and Heather Briston
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Digital Curation in Art Museums: Promising Practices and Opportunities for Education and Research (March '16)
Joyce Ray, Johns Hopkins University
View more informationThe Archaeology of Infrastructure (November '15)
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University
Jaap Geraerts, University College London
New Tools for Providing Access to Digital Image Collections: Mirador and Spotlight (November '15)
Stuart Snydman, Stanford University
View more informationSocial Networks and Archival Context: From R&D to Cooperative Program (April '15)
Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia
Brian Tingle, University of California
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Archives and Digital Humanities (December '14)
Charlotte Nunes, Southwestern University
Mary W. Elings, University of California at Berkeley
Jen Wolfe, University of Iowa
Tom Keegan, University of Iowa
Extending the Lifecycle of Scientific Field Notes: Making Hidden Collections Reusable (December '14)
Riccardo Ferrante, Smithsonian Institution
Rusty Russell, Smithsonian Institution
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Falling Though the Cracks: Digital Preservation and Institutional Failures (December '14)
Jerome McDonough, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Smithsonian X Digitization: Rapid Capture for Vast Collections, 3D Digitization for Iconic Objects (December '14)
Günter Waibel, Smithsonian Institution
Vincent Rossi, Smithsonian Institution
Stewarding New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future (December '14)
Ann Thornton, New York Public Library
Evelyn Frangakis, New York Public Library
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Stewarding New York Public Library’s Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future (December '14)
Ann Thornton, New York Public Library
Evelyn Frangakis, New York Public Library
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HyperCities: Using Social Media and GIS to Archive and Map Time Layers in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tehran, Rome, and Cairo (April '11)
Speaker: Todd Presner
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Cliff Lynch, Summary of “Special Collections Transformed by Technology” @ JISC/CNI ’10 (July '10)
Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch
View more informationWeb 2.0 and the Study of History Through a Living Learning Community (April '10)
Andrew Bonamici, University of Oregon
Heather Briston Corrigan-Solari, University of Oregon
Kevin Hatfield, University of Oregon
Matthew Villeneuve, University of Oregon
Closing Plenary Fall 2009: Beyond Illustration: New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments (April '09)
Speaker: Bernard Frischer
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 17th, 2011