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DPLAfest 2017 has ended
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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Daniel Reid

Whiting Foundation
Executive Director
Brooklyn, NY
Websitewhiting.org
The Whiting Foundation supports the humanities, literature, and the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage. Happily, these are also the areas I am most personally passionate about.
Thursday, April 20
 

8:00am PDT

Registration and Check In Harold Washington Library Center

9:00am PDT

Welcome to DPLAfest 2017 Pritzker Auditorium

10:30am PDT

Break TBA

10:45am PDT

Lightning Round 1 Pritzker Auditorium The Impact of Digital Communication on Civic Engagement Reception Room

11:45am PDT

Lunch Winter Garden

1:00pm PDT

A Report on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Using computational tools and crowdsourcing games to increase metadata and discoverability of digital collections Pritzker Auditorium EuropeanaTech: Synergizing Europe's cultural heritage digital infrastructure Multipurpose Room B Retweets, Likes and Favorites, Oh My! Public Engagement with Digital Collections on Social Media Video Theater

2:00pm PDT

Break TBA

2:15pm PDT

Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries Pritzker Auditorium Curation at DPLA: Goals, Progress, and Plans for 2017-2018 Video Theater Omeka, Mirador and Viscoll: Developing modular, interoperable tools with IIIF Multipurpose Room B

3:15pm PDT

Break TBA

3:30pm PDT

Engaging Educators with Digital Collections: Digital Libraries and Resources in the K-12 Classroom Video Theater

6:00pm PDT

Reception Winter Garden
 
Friday, April 21
 

9:00am PDT

Metadata: Preventing a Digital Junk Drawer Video Theater

10:00am PDT

Break TBA

11:15am PDT

Break TBA

11:30am PDT

Changing course in a technology project: The case of DPLA ingestion Pritzker Auditorium

12:30pm PDT

Lunch Winter Garden

1:45pm PDT

Managing Relationships, Managing Metadata: Digital Library Collaborations Between Institutions and Across Sectors Pritzker Auditorium

2:45pm PDT

Break TBA

3:00pm PDT

Closing Remarks Pritzker Auditorium