[MCN-L] DigCCurr Professional Institute - Earlybird Registration Ends April 15th

[Tibbo, Helen R]

Please excuse cross postings

Last Week for Earlybird Registration!

DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object 
Lifecycle

May 12-17, 2013 & January 6-7, 2014 (One price for two sessions) University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Visit http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute2013.html for more information.

REGISTRATION LINK: 
https://apps.research.unc.edu/events/index.cfm?event=events.eventDetails&event_key=EA75600789AECD0C6DA596F2DE05CF954728F89B.

The Institute consists of one five-day session in May 2013 and a two-day 
follow-up session in January 2014. Each day of the summer session will include 
lectures, discussion and hands-on "lab" components. A course pack and a 
private, online discussion space will be provided to supplement learning and 
application of the material. An opening reception dinner on Sunday, Continental 
breakfast, break time snacks and coffee, and a dinner on Tuesday will also be 
included.

This institute is designed to foster skills, knowledge and community-building 
among professionals responsible for the curation of digital materials.

Registration:

* Regular registration : $1,150
* Late registration (after April 15, 2012): $1,300

If you are a grant recipient working on a digital project, we recommend that 
you check with your program officer to request approval to use available grant 
funds to attend the institute.

Institute Instructors Include:

* From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Dr. Cal Lee, Dr. Helen 
Tibbo, and Dr. Kam Woods.
* Dr. Nancy McGovern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* Dr. Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee Knoxville.
* Lorraine Richards, Drexel University.

Institute Components: (may be subject to some revisions and reorganization)

* Overview of digital curation definition, scope and main functions
* Where you see yourself in the digital curation landscape
* Digital curation program development
* Engendering Trust: Processes, Procedures and Forms of Evidence
* LAB - DRAMBORA in action

* Strategies for engaging data communities
* Characterizing, analyzing and evaluating the producer information environment
* Submission and transfer scenarios - push and pull (illustrative examples)
* Defining submission agreements and policies
* Strategies for writing policies that can be expressed as rules and rules that 
can automatically executed
* LAB - Making requirements machine-actionable

* Importance of infrastructure independence
* Overview of digital preservation challenges and opportunities
* Managing in response to technological change
* Detaching Bits from their Physical Media: Considerations, Tools and Methods
* LAB - Curation of Unidentified Files

* Returning to First Principles: Core Professional Principles to Drive Digital 
Curation
* Characterization of digital objects
* LAB - Assessing File Format Robustness
* Access and use considerations
* Access and user interface examples
* How and why to conduct research on digital collection needs
* LAB - Analyzing server logs and developing strategies based on what you find

* Overview and characterization of existing tools
* LAB - Evaluating set of software options to support a given digital curation 
workflow
* Formulating your six-month action plan - task for each individual, with 
instructors available to provide guidance
* Summary of action plans
* Clarifying roles and expectations for the next six months


January 6-7, 2014
Participants in the May event will return to Chapel Hill in Jan. 2014 to 
discuss their experiences in implementing what they have learned in their own 
work environments.  Participants will compare experiences, lessons learned and 
strategies for continuing progress. Accommodations for January will be the 
responsibility of the attendee.

For more information, contact Dr. Helen Tibbo (tibbo @ 
email.unc.edu) for Institute questions or Kaitlyn Murphy (kaitlynm @ 
email.unc.edu) for payment or registration 
questions.

The Digital Professional Institute was initiated as part of the DigCCurr II 
project, supported by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (Grant 
Award #RE-05-08-0060-08) and is partially supported by the School of 
Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

We look forward to seeing you there!   -Helen


Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Tel: 919-962-8063
Fax: 919-962-8071
tibbo at ils.unc.edu

[MCN-L] Make-to-Learn Youth Challenge

[Claudia Caro Sullivan]

I wanted to share a great opportunity for your youth. Make-to-Learn
 , a new thematic initiative of the DML Research
Hub being led by Indiana University's Creativity Labs, is partnering with
Instructables.com  , one of the biggest online
DIY communities, to host the Make-to-Learn Youth Contest
 , where kids can share
their makes, talk about what they learned in the process, and check out lots
of other creative makes from across the country.

The contest is open until April 15th, and we invite all sorts of makes -
digital, physical, electronic, gastronomic, whatever! Just as long as a
youth made it. Details about submission can be found here:
http://www.instructables.com/contest/maketolearn

You can download a flyer here
  that can be posted
in your spaces, shared with youth and educators, posted to listservs, etc.
Definitely feel free to share widely! We'd love to give as many youth a
chance to participate as possible. (And also have a chance to win super cool
prizes like iPads, dream makers kits, and more!).

Best,

Claudia

Claudia Caro Sullivan

Assistant Director, Digital Media & Learning Research Hub
University of California Humanities Research Institute

4014 Humanities Gateway

Irvine CA 92697 

T.  949 824 5914 

F.  949 824 2115 

M. 949 378 4637

E.  ccaro at hri.uci.edu

[MCN-L] NISO/DCMI webinar: Deployment of RDA Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data

[DCMI Announce]

**Please excuse the cross postings**

Join NISO/DCMI for our joint April webinar

--Webinar: Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging
and its Expression as Linked Data
--Date: April 24, 2013
--Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock:
http://bit.ly/XySJt0)
--Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

A seminar at the British Library in April 2012 marked the fifth anniversary
of a 2007 meeting at which representatives of the Dublin Core, Semantic
Web, and RDA communities jointly recommended that the then-draft cataloging
standard RDA be provided in the form of vocabularies and application
profiles usable for Linked Data.

One year after this anniversary meeting and one year closer to the general
deployment of RDA in libraries, this webinar will take stock of progress
towards developing application profiles based on RDA and discuss the
practicalities of exposing RDA-based data in the Linked Data cloud.

SPEAKER:

Alan Danskin, Metadata Standards Manager at The British Library, where he
has worked in various capacities since 1987, including implementation of
MARC 21.  He currently represents the library on the Joint Steering
Committee for the Development of RDA (Resource Description and Access) for
which he until recently served as chair. He has served as chair of the
Cataloguing & Indexing Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals and is a member of the Book Industry
Communication Bibliographic Standards Group.

Registration closes one hour before the webinar begins.

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

[MCN-L] Create Mobile Experiences with TourML & TAP

[Kyle Jaebker]

Do you need an open-source way to create your museum's mobile tours and more?



Developed thanks to an IMLS grant, by a group of museum partners led by the 
Indianapolis Museum of Art, TourML & TAP are open-source tools that can be used 
by cultural institutions of all types and sizes to create and deploy mobile 
experiences.



TourML was created to serve as a simple and portable representation for mobile 
content. Having a common language for this content will enable the integration 
of content management systems, kiosks, and mobile applications. Version 1.0 of 
TourML is ready for institutions and vendors to work together on building 
content and tools that take advantage of its structure and flexibility. For 
more information on the TourML specification see here: 
https://github.com/IMAmuseum/tourml/wiki



In addition to the TourML specification the grant period has offered the IMA 
and its partners the ability to create a set of open-source tools for working 
with TourML. These tools called TAP include a set of Drupal modules for 
authoring content and creating Tourml 
(https://github.com/IMAmuseum/tap-cms/wiki), a web application for processing 
and displaying TourML (https://github.com/IMAmuseum/tap-web-app/wiki), and an 
iOS application (https://github.com/IMAmuseum/tap-ios/wiki).



The TourML & TAP grant partners have been hard at work developing tour content 
and tools to leverage TourML. From web-apps to native iOS applications many 
interesting tours have already been created using TourML. To see some examples 
of the experiences being created follow this 
linkhttp://tapintomuseums.org/case-studies

We are very excited to see where the TourML specification will be used next. 
Visit the TAP into Museums website for more information 
(http://tapintomuseums.org>).



Kyle Jaebker

Director IMA Lab

4000 Michigan Road

Indianapolis, IN 46208

t 317-923-1331 ext. 436

f 317-920-0399

kjaebker at imamuseum.org


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