Category: Announcements

From Rachel Mattson, who’ll be visiting us in class in late November:

I’m getting in touch with an opportunity for the developers and software engineers among you: a chance to attend the annual conference of The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) with support from the Digital Library Federation.

The award, which includes up to $1,250 in travel funding as well as registration, will go to one software development professional from the DLF community. The ideal applicant:

• Seeks more exposure to trends in stewarding digital audiovisual collections.
• Would not typically attend the conference, but can envision and articulate a connection with their work.
• Sees great value in building a dynamic and diverse peer network.
• Is interested in participating in the AMIA+DLF Hack Day on November 28, 2018.
• Is enthusiastic about collaborating with preservation professionals who have varying levels of technical expertise.
• Is affiliated with a DLF member institution.

The Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference will take place in Portland, Oregon, November 28-December 1, 2018, and we are pleased to partner with them once again in sponsoring the fifth annual DLF/AMIA Hack Day, bringing together collections practitioners and managers with developers and engineers for a day of collaboration.

Please share with anyone who may be interested in this award! The deadline to apply is September 14th.

Every semester a few students have to miss our first class for any of a number of reasons — because of travel or visa complications, because they’ve added the class after our first meeting, etc. If you’re among those who’ll be joining us late, I encourage you to take a half-hour to look through all the pages on this website:

• You’ll find the course description and numbers and my contact info on the About the Class page.
• I describe all of our readings and other resources, and how to access them, on the Resources page.
• On the Requirements and Assignments page, I list all of your responsibilities: your expectations for attendance and engagement; your reading responses (which you should begin posting within the first three weeks of the semester); your application presentation (you’ll choose a date for your presentation in the next couple weeks), and your final, which can take the form of either a traditional paper, a non-traditionally-formatted paper, or a research-based and critically-informed creative project.
• Please review our Policies + Procedures, too.
• In the Schedule + Readings section, you’ll find a separate “block” for each day of our semester. All the texts listed under a particular date are to be read for that class. Again, for more context on how these texts were chosen, see the Resources page.
• You’ll also find that on each day’s page within the Schedule + Readings section, I’ll post my slides and any other learning materials we use in class each day. Since you will miss — or have missed — our first class, please review the slides and any other materials I post on our August 28 page. I’ll post each week’s materials before class begins — i.e., by 4pm on Tuesdays.

We look forward to meeting you on Week 2! Please come to class having read all the texts listed on our September 4 page!