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Registration is now open for the 2019 Digital Initiatives Symposium at the University of San Diego on April 29 &30, 2019!

Six Pre-conference Workshops: 

- Collections as Data: Digital Collections for Emerging Research Methods by Stewart Varner, University of Pennsylvania
- Two Peas in a Pod: On Information Literacy and Open Educational Resources by Michelle Reed, University of Texas at Arlington
- Text Mining with HathiTrust: Empowering Librarians to Support Digital Scholarship Research by Eleanor Dickson Koehl, HathiTrust

- Results-Driving OER Programs by Nicole Finkbeiner, Rice University
- Metadata for Digital Projects: An Overview of Practical Issues and Challenges by Murtha Baca, Getty Research Institute and UCLA

-Strategies and Tools for Digital Repository Selection and Migration by Todd Crocken and Anne Washington, University of Houston
 

Register at: https://2019-dis.eventbrite.com

Keynote speakers:

Virginia Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, UCLA
"Open, Equitable, Affordable, and Transparent: Progress on the Road to True Open Access"

Leslie Chan, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough

"Platform Capitalism and the Governance of Knowledge Infrastructure"

Featured speaker:

Yasmeen Shorish, Data Services Coordinator / Associate Professor, James Madison University
"Centering Humanity in Digital Scholarship"

10-Minute "Lightning Talks":

"Lever Press: A Game Changer for Scholarly Publishing" by Jennifer Nutefall, Santa Clara University

"Re/Mapping the Archives: Repository Content for the Digital Humanities and Cartographer" by Michael R. Howser, SDSU

"Can This Be Redacted? Developing an Institutional Repository and Addressing Privacy Issues" by Pamela Pierce, OHSU

"The Language Archive: Migrating to an Easier, Sustainable Open-Source Solution" by Jeroen Geerts, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen

"Pushing PCP and Dismissing Diversity: Platforms, Competition, and Profit" by Paige Mann, University of Redlands

Plus, Deans' Panel on digital infrastructure, 12 Concurrent Sessions, and 4 User Groups (Digital Commons, DSpace, Fedora and Islandora).

See the full program at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2019/

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