Call for Proposals
Eastern CONTENTdm User Group Meeting
2012
Dates: Monday – Tuesday,
August 20-21, 2012
Host: The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Proposal due date:
Friday, May 25, 2012
Regional
CONTENTdm User Group meetings provide attendees with the opportunity to network
with the local CONTENTdm user community to share experiences, learn best
practices, and get inspiration for creative CONTENTdm projects.
With
this in mind, the Planning Committee invites proposals for conference talks,
panel discussions, and/or lightning talks.
Topics
are open to anything related to using CONTENTdm, including but not limited
to:
- Audio and video projects
- Newspaper collections
- Text projects (working with the OCR extension, compound object documents, monographs, PDFs, finding aids)
- Thesis and Dissertation projects
- Metadata practices
- Consortia collaboration/participatory archives
- Working with 3D objects (artifacts, museum objects)
- Generation and use of reports and statistics
- Programming and applications (widgets, CONTENTdm API, other add-on features)
- Collection management and configuration
- Digital archiving and preservation of digital collections
- Creative and/or unconventional uses of CONTENTdm
- Customizations with v6
Please
submit proposals or questions to Karen Schwentner at kes100 at psu.edu. The
proposal deadline is May 25, 2012.
To
submit proposal(s) please provide the following information:
Contact
information:
Name
Institution
Address
City/State/Zip
Phone
Fax
Email
Program
Information:
Title
Type
of program (Talk, Panel Discussion, Lightning Talk)
Expected
Outcomes
Target
Level of Audience (user): Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
All
conference attendees are also invited to bring handouts, promotional materials,
and/or simple poster to share some aspect of their local CONTENTdm collections.
