DLF Forum 2025

DLF Forum 2025

8:00am MST

Learn@DLF Continental Breakfast TBA

9:00am MST

S01: Sunset Planning: Lessons and Tools for Responsible Stewardship of Community Digital Infrastructure and Projects TBA S02: OpenAlex Python Toolkit for Librarians TBA S03: Evolving Roles and Tools: Navigating the Future of Project Management in Digital Libraries TBA S04: TBD TBA S05: TBD TBA

10:30am MST

Learn@DLF Morning Break TBA

12:15pm MST

Learn@DLF Lunch TBA

1:45pm MST

S06: AVAnnotate: Open Source Application for Audiovisual Digital Exhibits and Editions TBA S07: Hands-On Digital Publishing Workshop with Quire TBA S08: Practicing Systems Leadership for Knowledge Equity: Building Coalitions, Navigating Governance, and Embracing Collective Power TBA S09: TBD TBA S10: TBD TBA

3:15pm MST

Learn@DLF Afternoon Break TBA

3:00pm MST

DLF Forum Opening Plenary Confluence Ballroom

4:30pm MST

DLF Forum Lightning Talks Confluence Ballroom

5:30pm MST

DLF Forum Reception Confluence Ballroom

8:00am MST

DLF Forum Continental Breakfast Confluence Ballroom

9:15am MST

T01: Recollection: Establishing Digital Workflows for a Legal Civil Rights Archive Platte River Room T02: DAM’ed if You Do, DAM’ed if You Don’t: Using Generative AI to Support a Digital Asset Manager Migration Lawrence AB T03: The Care and Feeding of the Carpentries: Cultivating Inclusive Software Development Communities in Libraries Tabor-Molly Brown T04: What’s in the Box?: LIS Students Use a Digital Humanities Toolkit to Explore Interdisciplinary Research Potential within Undiscovered Collections Elizabeth Piper Ensley A T05: Digitizing the New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins Photograph Collection Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

10:15am MST

T06: Clearing a Path for a Virtual Reading Room Program Platte River Room T07: Creating Text and Data Mining Collections for Small Institutions Lawrence AB T08: Steeling Time: How Small Language Models Strengthened AI-Assisted Archives Research Tabor-Molly Brown T09: Digital Preservation as a dependency Elizabeth Piper Ensley A T10: Introducing DadoCM: A New Conceptual Model for Describing Digital Archives with IIIF Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

11:00am MST

DLF Forum Morning Break Confluence Ballroom

11:30am MST

T11: Hire Learning: Reducing Accessibility Work Burnout with Newer Methodical Student Employee Hiring Platte River Room T12: “We Thought It Was One Tape, One Record”: Metadata Mayhem and Workflow Lessons from a Large-Scale A/V Digitization Project Lawrence AB T13: Planning What’s Next for the DLF Climate Justice Working Group Tabor-Molly Brown T14: Agile Documentation Development for Digital Preservation Systems Elizabeth Piper Ensley A T15: Stitching Stories: Bringing Material Culture into Digital Humanities Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

12:15pm MST

DLF Forum Lunch Confluence Ballroom

2:00pm MST

T16: Treasures and Trust: Expanding Access through the HBCU Digital Library Trust Initiative Platte River Room T17: Allmaps: Open Source Georeferencing for Historical Maps Lawrence AB T18: Here There be Dragons: Seeking Reparative Metadata Practices in Self-deposit Repositories Tabor-Molly Brown T19: Curating Digital Exhibits in Community Archives Elizabeth Piper Ensley A T20: DataWorks: Creating A Data Catalog From The Ground Up Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

3:00pm MST

T21: Inclusive description? In this political climate? Platte River Room T22: From Archives to Access: AI-Powered Transcription for Multimedia Collections Lawrence AB T23: We Are the [Project] Champions: Collaborative Project Management in a Digital Imaging Lab Tabor-Molly Brown T24: The Data Advocacy for All Toolkit: Critical Data Education for Social Change Elizabeth Piper Ensley A T25: From Paper Trails to Public Portals: Increasing Collection Visibility Through Digital Stewardship Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

3:45pm MST

DLF Forum Afternoon Break Confluence Ballroom

4:15pm MST

T26: Guided Play Meets Academic Makerspace: Instructional Design for 3D Digital Design and Fabrication Technology Platte River Room T27: Access in an Age of Censorship Lawrence AB T28: History on the Move: Digital Migration and Mass Digitization of the National Museum of the Pacific War Archives Tabor-Molly Brown T29: The Automation Paradox: Web Archiving and the Future of Humanistic Research Elizabeth Piper Ensley A T30: From Backlog to Access: Scalable Metadata with Generative AI Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

8:00am MST

DLF Forum Continental Breakfast Confluence Ballroom

9:15am MST

W01: Slowing Down to Move Forward: Reimagining Digital Services in Academic Libraries Platte River Room W02: Metadata Augmentation Using AI: an IMLS Grant Project Lawrence AB W03: Digital Heritage, Collective Impact: Navigating Digital Partnerships with Community Collaborators Tabor-Molly Brown W04: Values-driven AI in libraries and archives: Introducing the Viewfinder toolkit Elizabeth Piper Ensley A W05: Metadata in Practice: Building the ATE Impacts Photo Archive Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

10:15am MST

W06: Fostering Civic Engagement Through Digital Archives – The Revolutionary City Project Platte River Room W07: Measuring and Critiquing genAI tools for Geographic Metadata Creation Lawrence AB W08: Challenges and Opportunities in Migrating to a Modern Digital Collection Platform Tabor-Molly Brown W09: Digital Chronicles: Mastering the Digital Collections Workflow of a Student Newspaper Project Elizabeth Piper Ensley A W10: Cross-Institutional Approaches to Teaching Digital Libraries with Real Collections in a Simulated Real-World Practice Environment Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

11:00am MST

DLF Forum Morning Break Confluence Ballroom

11:30am MST

W11: Cultural Assessment Working Group (CAWG) Working Session: Inclusive Metadata Work in the Current Political Climate Platte River Room W12: Modernizing Access: Project Management Insights from the UCSF Industry Documents Library Website Redesign Lawrence AB W13: Nuclear Planning and Preparedness: Curating Documentary Production Collections on the Atomic West for the CU Digital Library Tabor-Molly Brown W14: How Do I find This?: Design Justice and User Testing of a Library Website Without a Search Box. Elizabeth Piper Ensley A W15: Lost in the Web: Safeguarding the Visibility and Integrity of Digital Collections Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

12:15pm MST

DLF Forum Lunch Confluence Ballroom

1:45pm MST

W16: Using AI to Unlock Access to Digitized Newspapers Platte River Room W17: Borderlands Storytelling: Archival Collections, Digital Approaches, and Library Engagement in Innovative Humanities Scholarship Lawrence AB W18: Why keep data science local? Case Studies from Two Universities Building Scholarly Indices with Open Data to Improve Institutional Data Literacy Tabor-Molly Brown W19: The Metadata Lifecycle: From Creation to Preservation Elizabeth Piper Ensley A W20: Experiences and Advice from the Institutional Perspective of a Consortium-Based Digital Collection Management System Migration Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

2:45pm MST

W21: Automate the Annoying Parts: A Case Study for Why Metadata Librarians Should Learn Programming Platte River Room W22: Circa: A Customizable, Web-based Request System for Special Collections Lawrence AB W23: Between Archives and Advocacy: Navigating Collaborative Digital Projects in the Library Tabor-Molly Brown W24: Mixed-Methods Approaches for Reformatting Projects at Scale: a Case-Study Elizabeth Piper Ensley A W25: Renaming Failure as “readme.files”: Lessons Learned from Early and Mid-career Archives Perspectives Elizabeth Piper Ensley B

3:30pm MST

DLF Forum Afternoon Break Confluence Ballroom

4:00pm MST

DLF Forum Closing Plenary Confluence Ballroom