The last day to register for the second annual OCLC Western CONTENTdm Users Group meeting is Wednesday, May 28

The deadline to register for the second annual meeting of the OCLC Western CONTENTdm Users Group is May 28, so please don’t delay in making your reservation. This year’s meeting is taking place June 5-6 at the Claremont University Consortium in Claremont, California.

Highlights will include:

• Rights management: Allyson Mower from the University of Utah will discuss the system they built to manage copyright for digital collections and Alain Veylit from the Claremont University Consortium will talk about the process of implementing the system.
• Map collections: Alex Dolski from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will discuss a graphical/spatial search application for CONTENTdm map collections.
• Data wrangling: Lisa Crane from Claremont University Consortium will share her experiences importing legacy metadata along with Eric Luhrs from Lafayette College who will talk about MetaDB, a metadata creation tool for distributed environments
• Collection visibility: Allegra Gonzalez from the Claremont University Consortium will discuss making collections available to website registries and harvesters like Worldcat and OAI.
• Product updates: Geri Ingram from OCLC will share information on the current features and planned enhancements for CONTENTdm.
• Developers' Discussion Forum: Participants will be provided an opportunity to discuss the CONTENTdm API and other topics.

You are invited to attend the 2008 OCLC Western Digital Forum

OCLC Western is pleased to present the fourth annual OCLC Western Digital Forum on August 14-15, 2008, in Tacoma, Washington, at the Hotel Murano. This year’s forum will focus on Making Digitization Count: Assessment and Evaluation Practices. The forum will feature national experts from the archival, museum and library communities who will discuss current projects to create and automate evaluation and assessment tasks for digital collections. Three of these distinguished presenters include: