[Mdl] Call for Proposals - Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting

[Sara Ring]

Please forward this message on to staff at your institution who may be using
OCLC CONTENTdm to manage your institution's digital collections.

 

Call for Proposals  - 2nd Annual Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting
Oct. 29-30, 2009
The Pyle Center, Madison, WI

Please consider participating.  Proposals are needed by Friday, May 1.  

To submit a proposal, please go here:
<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bJ8L_2fjs4iXCApGkoDWRyww_3d_3d>
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bJ8L_2fjs4iXCApGkoDWRyww_3d_3d

 

if you have an idea that you want to talk over with someone, help develop,
or if you want to find a co-presenter please note that on the proposal and
we can work with you.  Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

*	Audio and video projects
*	Learning Management Systems and CONTENTdm
*	Marketing your collection
*	Funding your project
*	Planning and implementing a digital project
*	Metadata practices
*	How individual institutions (or small consortia) are working with
larger consortia
*	Working with 3D objects (artifacts, museum objects)
*	Generation and use of reports and statistics
*	CONTENTdm server management
*	Programming and application building (widgets, CONTENTdm API, other
add ons)
*	Workflow models
*	Collections management and configuration
*	Institutional Repositories and organizational archives
*	Digital archiving and preservation of digital collections
*	Non-newspaper text projects such as OCR extension, compound object
documents, monographs, PDFs
*	Licensing, intellectual property and digital rights management
*	Project Client (CONTENTdm 5's Acquisition Station) tips and tricks
*	Creating and using metadata controlled vocabulary
*	Web templates and interface customizations
*	Talk about and show your institution's CONTENTdm collections  

WiLS, Minitex, and OCLC will sponsor the 2nd Annual Upper Midwest CONTENTdm
User Group Meeting.  There are over 40 institutions in the region (MN, SD,
ND, WI) currently using CONTENTdm to build their digital collections.  More
than eighty people attended the first meeting, which was held in St. Paul
last year ( <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/highlights/2008/contentDm>
http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/highlights/2008/contentDm ). 
This second meeting will continue to provide the opportunity for networking
and sharing of CONTENTdm best practices among colleagues, as well as a
CONTENTdm product update and a preconference. 

 

 

Sara Ring

Coordinator, Bibliographic and Technical Services

Minitex

15 Andersen Library

University of Minnesota

222 21st Ave. So.

Minneapolis, MN  55455

612-624-4002   Fax:  612-624-4508

ring0089 at umn.edu

 

 

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