Call for Case Studies: Building Digital Repositories with Limited Resources

Call for Case Studies: Building Digital Repositories with Limited Resources

I am writing a book, Building Digital Repositories with Limited Resources, which is scheduled to be published by Chandos Publications in 2010. I am planning to include a section of case studies and best practices to give readers ideas they can easily and inexpensively adopt. If you have developed a tool, technique, method, project, or program that you would like to have considered to be included in the book, please fill out this questionnaire: http://bit.ly/bdrlr-survey01


I am particularly interested in examples from institutions outside of the United States and case studies that would be applicable to academic libraries.

Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to): integrating web2.0 technologies into digital libraries; strategies for outreach and assessment; cost-effective digital preservation strategies; tools to automate metadata production; metadata production and repository workflow tools; and scalable methods for working with faculty to deposit their publications in open access repositories.

For further information about the book, please visit its page on the Woodhead Publishing web site: http://bit.ly/chandos-clobridge.

If you have any questions, please contact me at abby_clobridge@hks.harvard.edu.

Thank you.

Abby Clobridge
Associate Director, Research & Knowledge Services
Harvard Kennedy School Library
Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-1772
abby_clobridge@hks.harvard.edu

CFP: Western CONTENTdm Users Group - 3rd Annual Meeting

CFP: Western CONTENTdm Users Group - 3rd Annual Meeting
University of Nevada, Reno
June 4 & 5th
Pre-Conference workshops June 3rd
Hosted by
University of Nevada Reno
Reno, Nevada

Call for Proposals

Please consider participating in 2009 as part of a panel discussion, as a speaker or as a lightning session presenter. Proposals are needed by March 13th, 2009.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

* Audio and video projects
* Publicizing your collection
* Funding your collection
* Metadata practices
* Workflow models
* Campus wide or multi-institution collaborations
* Web templates and interface customization8
* Non-newspaper text projects (including OCR extension, compound object documents/monographs, PDFs)
* Collections Management & configuration
* Cool customizations of your collections
* File-wrangling; JPEG2000, audio, video, VR
* Digital archiving and preservation of digital collections
* Licensing, intellectual property and digital rights management
* Institutional repositories / organizational archives
* Programming & Application building (APIs, widgets, add-ons)
* Reports and statistics (generation and use)

Proposals may be submitted for a 40-min presentation; a 30-minute breakout session; 5-minute lightning round participant, or a presentation as a member of a panel discussion.

Please submit proposals to Megan Peacock at MeganP@BBHC.org
Deadline for submissions is March 13th, 2009.
Questions, please contact Angie Beiriger at Beiriger@reed.edu

To submit proposal(s) please provide the following information:

Name
Institution
Address
City/State/Zip
Phone
Fax
Email

Program Title
Target Level of Audience (user): Beginner or Intermediate/Advances
Type of program (40 minute presentation, 30 minute breakout session, Panel Presentation - topic (proposal submitter will coordinate the panel); Panelist (will participate as a panelist, preparing a 10 minute presentation), or Lighting-Round participant (will present 5-minutes on topic of choice))