Digitization Conference 2016

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PLAN’s Digitization Conference 2016 was held August 18-19, 2016. A full day pre-conference entitled Digitization 101 was also offered on August 17.  The conference theme was Digitization: Preserving the Past for the Future.

The location was Florida State University’s Panama City, Florida campus. The conference was open to any library or organization involved with digitization, or planning the digitization of historical records, photos, audios, or moving images. The conference provided both basic and advanced learning opportunities. All types of libraries and historical organizations benefited.

Who should attend:  Staff from libraries of all types, plus staff from historical & cultural heritage organizations.

Program: The conference provided both an introduction to digitization for those new to the topic and more in depth topics for those with experience in digitization. See the lineup of sessions and speakers at the following links:

Keynote and Breakout Sessions          Speaker Bios         Program (.PDF)

Pre-Conference: The full-day pre-conference, Digitization 101, provided an introductory workshop on the use of open/free software to create, validate, index, search, display and maintain a digital archive of various materials including photographs, oral histories, newspapers and books. View a full description of the pre-conference.

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Keynote Speakers

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Lee Rainie

Director, Internet Science and Technology
Pew Research

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Robert Miller

Chief Executive Officer
LYRASIS

Where We’re Headed, We Don’t Need Roads

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Presenters:

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Florida International University

We Work for the Users: User-centric Digitization in Digital Libraries

What Collaboration Can Do! Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC): Governance and Building Communities of Practice[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2737″][vc_column_text]Tom Clareson
LYRASIS

Grants and Grant Writing for Digital Projects

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University of Florida Libraries

We Work for the Users: User-centric Digitization in Digital Libraries

What Collaboration Can Do! Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC): Governance and Building Communities of Practice[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2129″][vc_column_text]Amy Hunsaker
University of Nevada, Reno

Support Your Local Rural Library! Utilizing Digital Resources in Small or Remote Communities[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2132″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Aisha Johnson-Jones, Ph.D.
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Florida State University Libraries

You’re Digitizing Everything, Right? : Developing Selection Criteria and Workflows for Digital Collections[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2744″][vc_column_text]Michael Meth
Florida State University Libraries

How to Successfully Leverage Collections, (Very) Limited Resources, and the Internet to Get Things Done: Digitizing a Small Special Collection at the University of Toronto[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2723″][vc_column_text]Melissa Minds VandeBurgt
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History Miami Museum

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The ResCarta Foundation

Digitization 101 (Preconference)

Digitization Basics: Capture/Conversion – Creating /Applying Metadata – Formats and Storage – Validation:

Presentation
Handout

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Dominican University

Get to Know MODS:

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MODS Metadata
MODS Activity XML Template
MODS Activity XML Template Answers

Crash Course in Dublin Core:

PowerPoint
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
Dublin Core Qualifiers
Simple Dublin Core Exercise Template

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2648″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Laurie Taylor, Ph.D.
University of Florida

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Florida State University Libraries

Well Planned is Half Done: Planning Projects in the Digitization World[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#76c04f”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Registration Fees: (includes breakfast & lunch each day, plus the Thursday evening reception) Pre-conference program is FULL.

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Pre-conference only $               75 $           100
2 days conference only $             150 $           175
1 day conference $             100 $           125
Pre-conference & conference $             200 $           225

Hotels, Airport, and Panama City Beach: Travel & Accommodations 

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Platinum Sponsor

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Silver Sponsor

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Bronze Sponsors

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