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<b><span style="color:black">Best Practices Exchange 2020: Sustaining and Maintaining Digital Initiatives</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="color:black">Call For Proposals</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Best Practices Exchange (BPE) 2020
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bpe2020?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash">#BPE2020</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">March 23-25, 2020</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Raleigh, North Carolina</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzhpm1K_CrqvT3I1HlpWMGNKKVnuN9RU0F0_9lU92KERnHew/viewform?usp=sf_link"><span style="color:#1155CC">Call for Proposals form</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The Best Practices Exchange (BPE) Program Committee invites submissions of session proposals for the 2020 conference to be held Monday, March 23, 2020 - Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at the
</span><a href="https://mckimmoncenter.ncsu.edu/mctc/"><span style="color:#1155CC">McKimmon Conference and Training Center</span></a><span style="color:black"> in Raleigh, North Carolina.
<b>Deadline for proposals is Friday, January 3, 2020 (midnight).</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">BPE is an unconference that focuses on the management and the preservation of digital information and brings together practitioners to discuss their real-world experiences, including best practices and lessons
learned. These informal, conversational sessions give presenters and attendees alike a unique opportunity to meet, experience, and cooperate with other practitioners, educators, and researchers seeking to address a wide array of digital challenges.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Each session will feature short presentations, with at least half of each session devoted to discussion, from one or more presenters. Attendees and presenters should be prepared to share their own experiences,
successes, failures, and lessons learned. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We encourage topics about sustaining, maintaining, and growing digital programs, but
<i>all topics are welcome</i>.<i> </i>Noted topics of interest in relation to digital data and collections include, but are not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
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Digital preservation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Email archiving<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Web and social media archiving<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Workflow analysis<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Digitization management<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Linked data<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Data archiving<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Labor and skill development<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Administration, finance, and/or making a case for projects<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:.25in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<b><span style="color:black">Submission Information</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">BPE is open to all, but particularly practitioners in government and university archives and libraries; educators and researchers in the fields of library science, information science, technology, archives, and
records management; and product developers working to create systems for managing and preserving digital assets.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Proposals may be submitted individually for shorter presentations or for a full session with multiple speakers. Shorter proposed presentations may be combined with others by the Program Committee. For your convenience
we are providing an <b>unmonitored brainstorming session spreadsheet: </b></span><b><a href="http://bit.ly/2MwjFWy"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://bit.ly/2MwjFWy</span></a></b><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">A BPE session may feature a single presenter, two or three presenters addressing a common topic, or many presenters delivering lightning talks. Proposals for roundtable, facilitated discussions, or mini-workshops
are also welcome. Sessions can range in length depending on amount content but most will be 60 minutes. During the first day of the conference, additional Birds of a Feather and Pop-Up session proposals will be solicited and approved.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Proposals should include a session abstract of 100 words or less and the name, title, email, and organization for each presenter. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For more information, see the <a href="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/">
BPE website</a>, and the <b>proposal submission </b></span><b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzhpm1K_CrqvT3I1HlpWMGNKKVnuN9RU0F0_9lU92KERnHew/viewform?usp=sf_link"><span style="color:#1155CC">form</span></a></b><span style="color:black">.
Please send any questions to </span><a href="mailto:bestpracticesexchange@gmail.com"><span style="color:#1155CC">bestpracticesexchange@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">Thank you!</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">The BPE Program Committee:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Krista Sorenson (co-chair), State Library of North Carolina; Bernadette Bartlett, (co-chair), Library of Michigan; Janet Carleton, Ohio University;
Sangeeta Desai, State Archives of North Carolina; Adriane Hanson, University of Georgia Libraries; Veronica Martzahl, Massachusetts Archive; Claire Radcliffe, Library of Virginia; Suzanne Stasiulatis, Pennsylvania State Archives; Heidi Steed, Utah Division
of Archives and Records Service; Amanda Stone, South Carolina State Library</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Best Practices Exchange</span></b><span style="color:black">,
<i>since 2006</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Website</span></a><span style="color:black"> |</span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/best-practices-exchange-discussion-group"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">Google Group</span></a><span style="color:black"> |</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bpexchange/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">Facebook</span></a><span style="color:black"> |</span><a href="https://twitter.com/ExchangeBest"><span style="color:#1155CC">Twitter</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">______________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OHIO University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Janet Carleton | Digital Initiatives Coordinator | Preservation and Digital Initiatives | University Libraries | 1 Ohio University | Alden 333 | Athens, Ohio | 740.597.2527 |
<a href="mailto:carleton@ohio.edu"><span style="color:windowtext">carleton@ohio.edu</span></a> | Pronouns: she, her, hers |
<a href="https://media.library.ohio.edu/"><span style="color:windowtext">https://media.library.ohio.edu/</span></a> |
<a href="https://twitter.com/jcarletonoh"><span style="color:windowtext">@jcarletonoh</span></a> |
<a href="https://twitter.com/AldenLibDigital"><span style="color:windowtext">@AldenLibDigital
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