Digital Initiatives Symposium 2018
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Description
Join University of San Diego's Copley Library for the Fifth Annual Digital Initiative Symposium!
This day-and-a-half conference focuses on the digital elements of library ecosystems and features workshops and user group meetings for a variety of institutional repository platforms.
- $95 registration covers both the preconference (Monday, April 23) and full-day conference (Tuesday, April 24). Includes the Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception on Monday as well as breakfast and lunch on Tuesday.
- $85 registration covers the full-day conference (Tuesday, April 24, 2018). Includes the Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception on Monday as well as breakfast and lunch on Tuesday.
- $50 registration covers a preconference workshop (Monday, April 23, 2018). Includes the Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception on Monday.
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New This Year:
- The outdoor Wine and Cheese welcome reception will be held from 4:00-5:30 PM on Monday, April 23
- Fifteen-minute "TED-style" presentations on Tuesday, April 24
- FIVE workshop choices:
- To Encourage is to Organize: Moving Higher Education Towards Open
- How to Develop a Faculty Open Access Policy as a Multi-stakeholder, Multi-year Cooperative Project
- Web Archiving for Academic Institutions
- Metadata for Digital Projects: An Overview of Practical Issues and Challenges
- Learning, Understanding, and Using Linked Data
Keynote Speakers for 2018:
- Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director of COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
- Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University and Merinda Hensley, Digital Scholarship Liaison and Instruction Librarian, University of Illinois
View the full progam at: http://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2018/
Hotel, travel, and local attraction information: https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/hotel_and_travel.html
Registration closes on April 16, 2018.