DPLA is seeking session proposals for DPLAfest 2017, an annual conference that brings together librarians, archivists, and museum professionals, developers and technologists, publishers and authors, educators, and many others to celebrate DPLA and its community of creative professionals. It will be held in Chicago, IL April 20-21, 2017.
DPLAfest 2017—the fourth major gathering of the Digital Public Library of America’s broad community—will take place on April 20-21, 2017 in Chicago at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center. The hosts for DPLAfest 2017 include Chicago Public Library, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Chicago Collections, and the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS). Taking place in downtown Chicago, DPLAfest 2017 will bring together hundreds of people from DPLA’s large and growing community over two days for interactive workshops, hackathons and other collaborative activities, engaging discussions with community leaders and practitioners, fun events, and more.
The deadline to submit a session proposal is Tuesday, January 17, 2017.
Proposals should be related to digital libraries, broadly defined. This year, we are particularly interested in proposals at the intersection of digital libraries and:
- Social justice
- Copyright and rights management
- Public engagement
- Analytics, assessment, and impact
- Metadata/data quality
- Collaboration across types of institutions and sectors
- Training, professional development, and technical literacy
- Open educational resources
- Open access content, including use and reuse
- Technical infrastructure of interoperability including
- International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) integration
- ResourceSync
- Linked Open Data
- Repository systems
- Aggregation technologies
- Search and discovery
We also encourage proposals that highlight digital library work being done in and/or focusing on our host city – Chicago!
Check the DPLA proposal page for more information https://dp.la/
