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Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management
Full-day Workshop @ DC-2014
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
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LOCATION: Austin, Texas, USA
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This DC 2014 special event will bring together experts and practitioners to explore archival description in the cultural heritage descriptive landscape, the emergence of authority files/identity description as an opportunity for cultural heritage cross-community collaboration, and provide attendees with the latest information on key metadata editing and management tools used by the working archivist.
Workshop Sponsors:
- Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (Host)
- ArchivesPortal Europe (APEx)
- ArchivesSpace
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- Europeana
- Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
- ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier)
- OCLC (Europe)
- University of Miami
Workshop Planning Committee:
- Daniel Pitti -- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
- Julianna Barrera-Gomez -- University of Texas at San Antonio
- Eric Childress -- OCLC Research
- Jen Schaffner -- OCLC Research
- Ryan Hildebrand -- Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
Don't procrastinate, register now! Workshop space is limited. The Workshop and DC-2014 Conference cap the second week of the Austin City Limits Music Festival (
http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as the Workshop date approaches.
Eric Childress, OCLC
DCMI Governing Board Chair-Elect