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DPLAfest 2016

Taking place in the heart of Washington, DC, DPLAfest 2016 (April 14-15) will bring together hundreds from DPLA’s large and growing community for interactive workshops, hackathons and other collaborative activities, engaging discussions with community leaders and practitioners, fun events, and more. DPLAfest 2016 will appeal to anyone interested in libraries, technology, ebooks, education, creative reuse of cultural materials, law, open access, and genealogy/family research.

Area institutions serving as co-hosts include the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.

To view photographs, recordings, and social media from DPLAfest 2016, visit https://dp.la/info/get-involved/dplafest/april-2016/media/.

1:30pm EDT

DPLA Hands-on Cultural Heritage Hackathon Library of Congress (Madison Building): Mumford Room

8:30am EDT

Registration Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium

9:15am EDT

Welcome to DPLAfest 2016 Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium

10:15am EDT

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10:45am EDT

The Future of Libraries Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium ESDN Partners Present: A Look at New York’s DPLA Service Hub from the Ground Up Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 119 Reaching Educators, OR If You Build It, Will They Come? Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Whittall Pavilion Geovisualization: Visualize that on a Map Library of Congress (Madison Building): Pickford Theater Transcription Projects at the National Archives, Smithsonian, and Folger Shakespeare Library Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 113 DPLA Hands-on Cultural Heritage Hackathon Library of Congress (Madison Building): Dining Room A

11:30am EDT

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11:45am EDT

Authorship in the Digital Age Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium Primary Sources and Open Educational Resources (OER): A Model for K-12 Librarians to Co-Lead STEM Inquiry Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Whittall Pavilion Wide Open Spaces: Bringing the Rest of the West into DPLA Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 119

12:00pm EDT

Build your own tour of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building TBA

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Library of Congress (Jefferson and Madison Buildings): Great Hall and Madison Hall

1:45pm EDT

Technology Trends in Libraries Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium Ebook Research and Advocacy Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 119 Funding DPLA: Reflections and New Opportunities Library of Congress (Madison Building): Montpelier Room Hydra in a Box: Building A Next-Generation Platform for Digital Collections Library of Congress (Madison Building): Pickford Theater Inside the black box: Influencing public policy to advance DPLA interests Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Whittall Pavilion The GIF Element: Making, Finding, & Using GIFs to Great Effect Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 113

2:30pm EDT

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3:00pm EDT

Hubs Showcase #1 Library of Congress (Madison Building): Pickford Theater Library eBook Platforms: An Update Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium Do we need to worry? : Update on copyright matters affecting digital libraries Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Whittall Pavilion British Library – Clusters in a digital age Library of Congress (Madison Building): Montpelier Room Digital Collections in the K–12 Classroom: Connecting with Teachers and Students Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 119

3:45pm EDT

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4:15pm EDT

Hubs Showcase #2 Library of Congress (Madison Building): Pickford Theater Smithsonian, Library of Congress, and National Archives: Opportunities and Challenges for Working Together Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium Free for All: The Story of NYPL’s Public Domain Drop Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 119 Moving Ebooks out of Silos Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Whittall Pavilion Pond to Lake to Ocean: Partnerships for Moving Cultural Heritage Materials into the DPLA Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 113

6:30pm EDT

Reception National Archives and Records Administration: Rotunda Galleries

8:30am EDT

9:30am EDT

Digital Collection Showcase #1 National Archives and Records Administration: McGowan Theater Digitization in Three Strokes: Digital Commonwealth, Minnesota Digital Library, and The Portal to Texas History Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3037A Hacking Hemingway: Cracking the Code to the Vault & Virtual Creative Spaces Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3112 Historypin and the National Archives: APIs, Apps, and Audiences National Archives and Records Administration: Jefferson Room Is there something in the water? Community engagement and OS development EU vs US Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3037B Testing a Linked Data Fragments Server using DPLA Data & PCDM, IIIF, and Interoperability National Archives and Records Administration: Room G-25 The People’s Archives: Communities and Documentation Strategy Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3035 Digital Newspapers: DPLA Planning and Hub Activities National Archives and Records Administration: Washington Room FADGI for Still Imaging: Standards-Compliant Digitization for your Institution National Archives and Records Administration: Adams Room Introduction to Omeka S, Institutional Repositories, and DPLA National Archives and Records Administration: Madison Room DPLA Hands-on Cultural Heritage Hackathon National Archives and Records Administration: Innovation Hub Demo Space National Archives and Records Administration: McGowan Theater Lobbies

10:15am EDT

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10:45am EDT

Digital Collections Showcase #2 National Archives and Records Administration: McGowan Theater Desegregating collections: Paths to collaborative projects through the DPLA Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3035 Developing a Digitization Curriculum for New Partners: Combining Best Practices from Four Service Hubs Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3037A Engaging students and highlighting DPLA collections through Wikipedia Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3112 Go Far, Go Together: A Hydra-Based Aggregator For the Pennsylvania Service Hub National Archives and Records Administration: Jefferson Room Everything you ever wanted to know about IIIF but were too afraid to ask National Archives and Records Administration: Room G-25 Perspectives on Data and Quality Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3037B

11:30am EDT

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12:00pm EDT

Technology shorts National Archives and Records Administration: McGowan Theater How much does and should digitization cost? Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3037A Digitized Newspapers and Research National Archives and Records Administration: Washington Room DPLA Board Q&A National Archives and Records Administration: Adams Room Omeka, in the Library, with an Open Collection National Archives and Records Administration: Madison Room Report on the Primary Source Sets project from DPLA’s Education Advisory Committee National Archives and Records Administration: Jefferson Room The International Framework and the Reality of Copyright Determination: Copyright Developments in the US, the EU and WIPO and Briefing on the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3112 Wax Works in the Age of Digital Reproduction: The Futures of Sharing Native/First Nations Cultural Heritage Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3035

12:45pm EDT

Lunch TBA

2:00pm EDT

Building Tools with the DPLA API and Developer Showcase National Archives and Records Administration: McGowan Theater Creating compelling user interfaces National Archives and Records Administration: Madison Room Digital Resources in the Wild West: The DPLA and Rural American Libraries Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3037B DPLA's Archival Description Working Group Update Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3112 Making Access Happen: The Public Interest Declassification Board and the Case for Technology and Prioritization in Declassification National Archives and Records Administration: Adams Room The Preservation Puzzle: Integrating Digital Preservation and the DPLA Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3037A The Zine Union Catalog and Opportunities with the DPLA Community Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3035 Using the DPLA for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education National Archives and Records Administration: Jefferson Room

2:45pm EDT

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3:15pm EDT

Closing remarks National Archives and Records Administration: McGowan Theater