2014 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
1900 University Avenue
Austin, TX 78705
Dates: April 28 – 29, 2014
Theme: Engaging Outliers: Context, Collections & Community
This year’s conference focuses on the theme Engaging Outliers: Context, Collections & Community, and will explore the full range of projects, workflows, use cases and ideas-in-the-making related to digital library work — with a special emphasis on those projects that lie outside of the ordinary.
The conference will address such questions as:
- How are you using digital collections or materials in ways that are outside of their original context?
- What are you doing that no one else is doing?
- What would you like seen done that no one else is doing?
Keynote Speakers: Dan Cohen & Karen Coyle
Dan Cohen
Dan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the DPLA, where he works to further the DPLA’s mission to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all. Prior to his tenure, Dan was the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. At the Center, Dan oversaw projects ranging from new publishing ventures (PressForward) to online collections (September 11 Digital Archive) to software for scholarship (the popular Zotero research tool). His books include Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (with Roy Rosenzweig) and Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Dan was an inaugural recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship. In 2011 he received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award from the American Library Association for his work in digital humanities, and in 2012 he was named one of the top “tech innovators” in academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education. (Bio source)
Opening Keynote Session on April 28, 2014
“Inside the Digital Public Library of America”
DPLA Executive Director Dan Cohen goes behind the scenes to discuss how the DPLA was created, how it functions as a portal and platform, what the staff is currently working on, and what’s to come for the young project and organization.
Karen Coyle
Karen Coyle is a librarian with over thirty years of experience with library technology. She now consults in a variety of areas relating to digital libraries. Karen has published dozens of articles and reports, most available on her web site, kcoyle.net. She has served on standards committees including the MARC standards group (MARBI), NISO committee AX for the OpenURL standard, and was an ALA representative to the e-book standards development that led to the ePub standard. She follows, writes, and speaks on a wide range policy areas, including intellectual property, privacy, and public access to information. As a consultant she works primarily on metadata development and technology planning. She is currently investigating the possibilities offered by the semantic web and linked data technology. (Bio source)
Closing Keynote Session on April 29, 2014
Library practices are based on a rich history covering centuries of expert knowledge. That’s the up-side. The down-side of that rich tradition is that there is so much of our practice that is based on “We’ve always done it that way.” This talk will challenge you to “think different” about common practices and begin to imagine a very different library.
Conference Proceedings
The 2014 TCDL Conference Proceedings are available in the Texas Digital Library (TDL) repository.
TCDL 2014 Announcements
Sponsors
Thank you to our 2014 TCDL sponsors!
– Linked Data Workshop Sponsors –
TCDL 2014 Planning Committee
Chair: Billie Peterson-Lugo, Baylor University
Vice-Chair: Elizabeth Gushee, University of Texas at Austin
Jim Brewer, Texas Tech University
Cameron Kainerstorfer, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Nerissa Lindsay, Texas A&M International University
Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library
Mark Phillips, University of North Texas
Rachel Vacek, University of Houston
About the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Since 2007, the Texas Digital Library has hosted the annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). TCDL covers topics relevant to the creation, promotion, dissemination, and preservation of research, scholarship, and cultural heritage digital materials. The goal of TCDL is to bring together those working on digital projects — including outreach librarians, repository managers, catalogers, faculty members, technical staff, and others — in order to build a practical, usable, and sustainable model for digital libraries.
TCDL encourages and welcomes participation from students, scholars, librarians, researchers, faculty, and users from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. All are welcome!
Read TCDL’s Code of Conduct and Land Acknowledgement.