The University of San Diego’s annual Digital Initiatives Symposium is back and accepting proposals. The symposium will be held in-person April 25-26, 2022, with half-day workshops taking place on the 25th. Proposals can either be for concurrent sessions featuring 1-2 speakers for 40 minutes or 10-minute lightning talks. Keynote speakers include Lorcan Demsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist of OCLC; Sarah Lamdan, SPARC Senior Fellow and Professor at CUNY School of Law; and Jennifer Ferretti, Senior Program Officer for the Digital Library Federation (DLF).
Invited topics for proposals include:
- collaborative and interdisciplinary digital initiatives
- copyright, licensing, and privacy issues
- curation of digital collections
- data management and sharing; open data
- DEIA in scholarly communications
- digital humanities
- digital initiatives in instruction and undergraduate research
- digital project management
- diverse repository platforms and functions
- future of open access
- linked data
- open educational resources
- Plan S
- roles for deans and directors in digital and institutional repository initiatives
- roles for disciplinary faculty in digital and institutional repository initiatives
- social justice and open access
- technical applications related to platforms or tools
- transformative agreements
- web annotation
- web archiving
Virtual presentations will not be accepted. Registration fees will be waived for speakers. Submissions are due by Friday, Dec. 10, 2021.
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