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2017 Digital Commonwealth Annual Conference

Posted March 24, 2017

2017 Digital Commonwealth Annual Conference “Charting the Digital Future”
April 4, 2017, at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Early Registration Deadline March 28, 2017

This year’s keynote addresses are:

Fake News Literacy: What Is the Role of Libraries and Other Cultural Heritage Institutions? with Mary Minow.
Sham sites, misleading news, highly partisan manipulations, clickbait, satire and just plain disfavored facts. What role do librarians, archivists, and curators play in helping users discern the probability of truth? Is information literacy the same as “fake news” literacy? What responsive activities are cultural heritage institutions undertaking today, and what might or should they do going forward? What is the responsibility of digital repositories in harvesting and making accessible information that is accurate and dependable? How can political neutrality be maintained given the landscape of 2017 and beyond?

Digital Commonwealth Repository System Update: Year in Review & Future Directions
with Eben English
This talk will provide a review of the features and collections added to the Digital Commonwealth system over the past year, such as the new administrative interface and ability to download source files. Plans for additional features and future system updates will be discussed, including a report on efforts to make the source code behind the site more extensible and shareable, as well as ongoing efforts around migrating metadata to Linked Data RDF. In addition, this session will also revisit usage statistics and user behavior patterns for the Digital Commonwealth site in an attempt to further explore user behavior, site traffic sources, popular content, and the impact of metadata quality on discoverability.

Some of this year’s breakout sessions include:

  • Creative Commons Crash Course
  • Social Life of Digital Collections
  • Building Primary Source Sets for Students and Teachers
  • Evaluating photographic images for copyright infringement
  • Update from the DPLA
  • Building a Digital Humanities Community at Salem State University
  • Collaborating with the Digital Commonwealth: how to prepare your materials for digitization (step-by-step)
  • Metadata mysteries: unraveling the magic and the myths behind the data that drives Digital Commonwealth