Digital Directions 2015 - fundamentals of creating & managing digital collections

Date: 
3 Aug 2015 to 5 Aug 2015
Location: 
Raleigh, NC, USA

New to managing digital collections? Need a refresher? Or are you well into a digital project and want to confirm you are on the right track? We welcome administrators and staff from libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations, as well as corporate archivists and government records managers - anyone eager to learn about the basics of digitization. Student rates are available.

Topics will include:
Assessing Risks to Digital Collections
Understanding Rights & Responsibilities
Digital Project Planning
Selection for Digitization
Creating Useful Digital Objects
Metadata for Digital Projects
Digital Storage
Working with Born-Digital Collections