Digital Heritage, Collective Impact: Navigating Digital Partnerships with Community Collaborators Kevin Hebert, Grayson Murphy, Kelly Schiff University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States of America
This presentation will outline strategy related to the management of community-focused digitization projects. We will discuss the challenges, the rewards, and everything in between as we dive into two of our ongoing projects in collaboration with the Birmingham Music Archive and the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
Challenges and Opportunities in Migrating to a Modern Digital Collection Platform Natalie Baur(1), Debbie Cornell(2), Paula Kiser(3), Akanksha Singh(4) 1: University of Iowa; 2: William & Mary; 3: Washington and Lee University; 4: Discovery Garden
Learn how three institutions—William & Mary, Washington and Lee University, and the University of Iowa—navigated digital asset management migrations to Islandora. Panelists will share insights on metadata remediation, image quality, staffing, content weeding, and more, offering practical strategies and lessons learned from projects of varying size and scope.
Nuclear Planning and Preparedness: Curating Documentary Production Collections on the Atomic West for the CU Digital Library Ashlyn Velte, Jamie Wagner University of Colorado Boulder, United States of America
CU Boulder Libraries’ archivists share their experiences selecting and preparing digital collections from original documentary production material about nuclear activity in the American west. They will present challenges in balancing the needs of activist stakeholders, approaches to legal and ethical considerations, and strategies for complex archival media production collections.
Why keep data science local? Case Studies from Two Universities Building Scholarly Indices with Open Data to Improve Institutional Data Literacy Katharine Teykl(1), Jordan Hemingway(1), Jason Clark(2), Chad Hutchens(1) 1: University of Wyoming Libraries, United States of America; 2: Montana State University Library, United States of America
Two mid-sized libraries created indices of institutional scholarship using open code and the OpenAlex dataset. This panel explores the implementation of these applications, examines the open data sources used, and offers a candid discussion on what is gained and lost when choosing to outsource data science research and development.
Between Archives and Advocacy: Navigating Collaborative Digital Projects in the Library Ishmael Ross Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA, United States of America
This presentation explores the technical and ethical complexities of collaborative digital projects involving carceral records. Grounded in ongoing archival work with LAPD files, it offers practical strategies for sustainable access, redaction, and metadata design—while reflecting on how interdisciplinary collaboration can foster transformative learning and long-term planning in community-centered digital initiatives. Originally developed under the Mellon Foundation-funded initiative Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration, this work continues with support from an Archival Grant awarded by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation (2025).
