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DAIS will Emphasize Digital Curation in 2026
The DAIS series will examine scholarship and/or practice aroudn digital curation in the next year. Our focus will explore the history of digital preservation, digital community history, and search in multi-modal contexts.
Planned speakers:
- Amelia Acker (Rutgers University)
- Marika Cifor (University of Washington)
- Benjamin Lee (University of Washington)
DAIS to focus on Shared Stewardship in 2025
The DAIS series will examine scholarship and/or practice of shared responsibility for and collaboration around cultural collections. The initiative explores partnership models, collections stewardship across community archives, Indigenous knowledge systems, and data reuse contexts.
Key questions include: Who shares responsibilities? Which communities participate? How are resources distributed? What partnership forms prove authentic and effective?
Planned speakers:
- Thuy Vo Dang (UCLA)
- Trevor Owens (American Institute of Physics)
- Estevan Rael-Galvez (Native Bound Unbound / SAR)
Emily Drabinski Featured on UMSI Podcast!
Emily Drabinski, former American Library Association President, delivered a talk co-sponsored by DAIS at the Rackham Amphitheatre. She subsequently appeared on the School of Information’s new podcast, discussing critical librarianship and action within the field.
Check out the episode here.
Fall 2023 Term is Underway!
The ARC Group announced the fall term commencement and scheduled meetings alongside planned speaker series programming.