education
Past conferences
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Digital Directions:
Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections
A project supported by
the National Endowment for the Humanities
Digital Directions is a three-day conference presenting
the essential of digitization. A faculty of national experts introduced
participants to the range of activities and issues associated
with digitizing collection material, from file formats to fund
raising, from digital printing to digital asset management. The
conference is an updated version of NEDCC’s popular School
for Scanning, which was first presented in 1995. The conference
has kept up with evolving standards and practices over the years,
and was renamed to reflect its expanded content, which now encompasses
the full life-cycle of digital objects from planning to creation
to sustainability.
Digital Directions - May 2009 - San Diego, California
Digital
Directions - June 2008 - Jacksonville, Florida
The Tectonics of Digital Curation:
A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation
and Access Landscape
The two-day Tectonics of Digital Curation Symposium
explores the sustainability of curated cultural collections created
for and maintained on the web. A diverse faculty of national experts
discuss the forces at play in our increasingly networked society
and the challenges they present for sustaining our digital collections.
The symposium’s first presentation took place in May, 2010
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Persistence of Memory:
Sustaining Digital Collections
A project supported by the Institute of Museum and Library
Services
The Persistence of Memory conference, taught by a faculty
of national experts, addressed the question of digital longevity.
The two-day conference highlighted evolving best practices for
digital preservation to help institutions with the life-cycle
management of their collections. The conference was geared toward
librarians, archivists, museum professionals, information technology
specialists, chief information officers, and administrators responsible
for managing and preserving digital resources, and was presented
four times in four locations across the country from 2005 to 2008.
Persistence
of Memory - December 2008 - Chicago, Illinois
Persistence of Memory - November 2007 - Seattle, Washington
Persistence of Memory - December 2006 - Tucson, Arizona
Persistence
of Memory - November 2005 - Boston, Massachusetts
Stewardship of Digital Assets
A project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Stewardship of Digital Assets was a two-day workshop on sustaining
digital collections. A faculty of digital experts taught the interactive,
hands-on workshop at four locations across the country from Fall
2007 to Fall 2008. The workshop was created in partnership with
PALINET, SOLINET, Amigos Library Services, and OCLC
Western Service Center. Funding was provided by the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
A toolkit was created as part of this project that consists of
a number of tools to help you gauge and plan for digital preservation
readiness at your institution: a questionnaire that will assist
in planning, a digital preservation policy template, and numerous
links to online resources. Click
here to view this toolkit.