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Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference

The 2nd Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC16) will take place August 9-11th, 2016 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa (Quad Cities). The UMDCC provides opportunities for digital collections creators and curators in the region and beyond to network, share best practices, participate in hands-on workshops, and learn from leaders in digital cultural heritage. The conference will be held jointly with the 2016 CONTENTdm User Group Meeting, sponsored by OCLC, on August 10-11th.

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8:15am CDT

8:30am CDT

Registration and light breakfast Rogalski Center Atrium

9:15am CDT

Welcome and Keynote Trevor Owens: Next Steps for IMLS’s National Digital Platform Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

10:30am CDT

Break Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

10:45am CDT

Deep Dive Into Digital Content: Minnesota Reflections Primary Source Sets Rogalski Center Ballroom 2 Glen Ellyn Public Library's Digital Yearbook Collection Rogalski Center Ballroom 3 We've Decided to Establish a Web Archiving Program. Now What? Rogalski Center Ballroom 4

11:45am CDT

Lunch provided Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

1:00pm CDT

Digitizing Mount Hope Cemetery Rogalski Center Ballroom 2 Digitizing Sheet Music Scores using Optical Musical Recognition Rogalski Center Ballroom 3 Umbra: Search African American History Rogalski Center Ballroom 4

2:00pm CDT

Break Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

2:15pm CDT

Audiovisual Digitization and Quality Control: How Do People Really Do This? Rogalski Center Ballroom 2 Building Collections, Building Community: Collaborative Community Digitization Projects Rogalski Center Ballroom 3 Providing Access through Digital Projects: The Digitization of Increase Allen Lapham Papers Rogalski Center Ballroom 4

3:15pm CDT

Break Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

3:45pm CDT

DPLA Service Hubs in the Midwest Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

5:00pm CDT

Opening Reception St. Ambrose University Library

8:00am CDT

8:30am CDT

Workshop: Copyright and Related Issues in Digital ContentLIMITED Rogalski Center Ballroom 2 Workshop: Expanding Your Toolkit: Useful Tools for Managing Born-Digital ContentLIMITED McMullen Hall, Rm. 102 Workshop: The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer at Scale: Implementing an OHMS WorkflowLIMITED McMullen Hall, Rm. 101

10:00am CDT

Tour: Davenport Public Library Richard-Sloane Special CollectionsLIMITED Davenport Public Library Tour: Figge Art MuseumLIMITED Figge Art Museum Tour: German American Heritage CenterLIMITED German American Heritage Center Tour: Putnam MuseumLIMITED Putnam Museum

12:00pm CDT

Lunch on your own Area Restaurants

1:00pm CDT

Registration - CONTENTdm Users Group Rogalski Center Atrium

1:30pm CDT

Welcome and Keynote: OCLC Research/Linked Data Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

2:45pm CDT

Break Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

3:00pm CDT

OCLC Research/Linked Data Discussion Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

4:00pm CDT

Break Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

4:15pm CDT

Lightning Round: Five in 75 Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

6:00pm CDT

Birds of a Feather Dinners Area Restaurants

8:15am CDT

8:30am CDT

Registration and light breakfast Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

9:00am CDT

Welcome and Keynote: CONTENTdm Product Update Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

10:30am CDT

Break Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

10:45am CDT

A New Look for Minnesota Reflections: An Enhanced User Experience Rogalski Center Ballroom 2 Collaborating for Access: Metadata Template Creation at Wichita State University Libraries Rogalski Center Ballroom 3 Collections Interacting for a Sixties Exhibit and Map Rogalski Center Ballroom 4

11:45am CDT

Lunch provided Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

1:00pm CDT

Collaboration for Access to Legal Material Rogalski Center Ballroom 2 Using CONTENTdm’s APIs to Customize Your Site Rogalski Center Ballroom 4

2:00pm CDT

Break Rogalski Center Ballroom 1

2:15pm CDT

Moving your CONTENTdm Collections to the OCLC Data Center Rogalski Center Ballroom 1