Call for Proposals: Eastern CONTENTdm User Group Meeting 2012

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.