[OPLINLIST] CONTENTdm user group Call for Proposals

[Marsha McDevitt-Stredney]

Please excuse multiple postings..

Call for proposals for CONTENTdm Midwest Users Group May 3-4, 2012

 

Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group

Hosted by OCLC, Dublin, Ohio

May 3-4, 2012

 

Do you have a new project, tip, or best practice to share with your
fellow CONTENTdm users? The seventh annual Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group
meeting needs you! Please consider participating in the 2012 meeting
with a presentation, poster, or panel discussion. We need your help to
make our 2012 meeting a great one! 

 

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS MONDAY, MARCH 26

 

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

 

* Planning and implementing a digital project (workflows, staffing, best
practices)

* Collaboration between institutions on projects

* Working with 3D objects such as museum artifacts

* User statistics and assessment, production statistics

* Server management, hosted vs. non-hosted sites

* Programming and application building (widgets, API, other add ons)

* Digital archiving and preservation of digital collections

* Building text collections (institutional repositories, EAD,
newspapers, multi-page documents)

* Fun with CONTENTdm  (v.6 tricks and tips, innovative adaptations or
uses)

* Creating and using controlled vocabularies

* Funding projects

* Collection customizations

* Metadata migrating, harvesting, repurposing

* Video, audio or other multimedia projects

* Photographic projects, image editing

* Oral histories and other historical documentation projects

* Rights management

* System integration and interoperability (digital collections in the
institutional landscape, linking to collections via RSS feed,
meta-searches, API)

 

The online proposal submission form is available at this URL: 

http://bit.ly/CDM-MUG12-proposals

 

 

*** REGISTRATION IS FREE! ***

(meeting website & registration form coming soon!)

 

User Group meetings provide great opportunities to network, share best
practices, and hear about the latest CONTENTdm product updates.  Now in
its seventh year, the Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group welcomes all
CONTENTdm users, from beginner to advanced, from any type of library or
historical = or cultural institution. Please come join us!

 

Questions?          Contact Diana Nichols  |  nicholsd at ohio.edu

 

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