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DPLAfest 2017—the fourth major gathering of the Digital Public Library of America’s broad community—will take place on April 20-21, 2017 in Chicago at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center. For more information, visit the DPLA website.

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Friday, April 21
 

8:30am PDT

Registration and Check In Harold Washington Library Center

9:00am PDT

Lightning Round 2 Pritzker Auditorium Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations in Digital Libraries in Partnership with NDSR Learners Chicago Authors Room Metadata: Preventing a Digital Junk Drawer Video Theater Partners in econtent discovery: libraries, publishers and vendors (oh my!) 8th Floor Meeting Room Social Justice and Digital Archives in the Volunteer State Multipurpose Room B Ebooks Discussion 3rd Floor Meeting Room

10:00am PDT

Break TBA

10:15am PDT

Hydra-in-a-Box Project Update Pritzker Auditorium Reimagining the Digital Monograph: Improving the Discovery and Use of Scholarly Ebooks (JSTOR Labs) Chicago Authors Room The New Digital Collections of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center: Rediscovering Old Maps through Engagement Multipurpose Room B Lost in Aggregation: Towards Inclusive Metadata and Descriptive Practices in Digital Collections Reception Room HathiTrust Research Center Lesson Plan Jam 3rd Floor Meeting Room Wikidata the Basics: how to use it and what it offers for Cultural Heritage 8th Floor Meeting Room

11:15am PDT

Break TBA

11:30am PDT

Annotation for Collaborative Engagement: Lessons for Library Publishing and the Classroom Chicago Authors Room Changing course in a technology project: The case of DPLA ingestion Pritzker Auditorium Cultural Heritage and Social Change: Libraries Measuring Social Impact Multipurpose Room B

12:30pm PDT

Community Reps Lunch Meetup South Hall Lunch Winter Garden

1:45pm PDT

Bridging the Centuries with Digital Social Justice Collections Multipurpose Room B Digital Publishing at the Art Institute of Chicago: Discoverability, Adaptability and Access Reception Room Hacking Hemingway Cracking the Code to the Vault Chicago Authors Room Harnessing Volunteer Power for Operational and Programmatic Success 8th Floor Meeting Room Improving Discovery and Patron Experience Through Data Mining Video Theater Managing Relationships, Managing Metadata: Digital Library Collaborations Between Institutions and Across Sectors Pritzker Auditorium DPLA Website Focus Group 3rd Floor Meeting Room

2:45pm PDT

Break TBA

3:00pm PDT

Closing Remarks Pritzker Auditorium
 
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