The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce
that registration is now live for *Tips, Tools, and Workflows for Managing
Digital Content*, to be held on April 28, 2017. This workshop is co-hosted
by the Boatwright Memorial Library at the University of Richmond and the
Library of Virginia, and will be held at the University of
Richmond—Downtown, with the option to tour the nearby Library of Virginia
as well. This opportunity is open to cultural heritage professionals, the
information and educational communities, and to anyone interested in
launching or improving their own digital project. *Tips, Tools, and
Workflows for Managing Digital Content* is one of four workshops being
offered in the second year of the VRAF Regional Workshop Program. The VRAF
is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued support
of this exciting opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and
educational institutions.
Whether you’re just starting to envision a digital project, or are
experiencing challenges with an existing one, a thorough understanding of
best practices is essential to a successful outcome. This day-long workshop
will provide you with the background and tools to effectively organize,
catalogue, and distribute your institution’s digital assets by introducing
you to the core concepts of managing digital content. Participants will
receive an overview of metadata standards, as well as how to manage, share,
and publish digital content.
Topics covered will include:
· Best practices for metadata cataloging, crosswalks and controlled
vocabularies; Linked Open Data (LOD), Resource Description Format (RDF),
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and other
preservation metadata and authoritative taxonomies; data migration; and the
importance of metadata for search and discovery.
· Workflows for successfully managing collaborative digital projects,
including intellectual property and rights assessments, content
distribution, and long-term archival storage.
· Content distribution and digital delivery platforms.
· Standards for digital capture, including images, audio, video and
other ISO formats.
· Leveraging collaboration tools.
· The pros and cons of crowdsourcing.
· Assessing rights and reproductions, and other copyright
considerations that may impact digital distribution.
*Tips, Tools, and Workflows for Managing Digital Content *will be taught by
Shyam Oberoi. Shyam is the Director of Technology and Digital Media at the
Dallas Museum of Art, and oversees the museum's IT, website, multimedia
production and application development, including the museum’s first mobile
app. He is currently managing a multi-year project to comprehensively
digitize every object in the DMA’s collection, and publish the entire
collection online with extended scholarly content. Before joining the DMA,
Shyam worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as the General
Manager of Collections Information Systems, where he oversaw a team
responsible for the archiving, cataloging, licensing and digital content
distribution for the museum’s 2 million works of art. Notable projects
there included the creation of *Open Access for Scholarly Content* (OASC),
a platform for providing over 400,000 high-resolution digital images of
public domain works. Shyam is a frequent presenter at museum and
technology conferences, including SXSW, American Alliance of Museums, and
Museums and the Web, and has led a number of cross-institutional
collaborative technology projects, most recently *Building for Engagement:
Participation at Scale in Art Museums* funded by a National Leadership
Grant from the IMLS. He has a B.A. in Computer Science from Manhattan
College, and an M.A. in English from New York University.
To register for *Tips, Tools, and Workflows for Managing Digital Content *and
to learn more about the workshop, visit https://tinyurl.com/zkpzntz. The
fee for this day-long workshop is $125. If you have questions about
registration, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director,
[log in to unmask] For questions about the venue, please contact Jeannine
Keefer, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond at
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Curator of Visual Resources
Washington University in Saint Louis
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314.935.5256
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