Most digital preservation software uses free, smaller tools that run on the command line. This webinar introduces attendees to Windows command line tools, including ROBOCOPY, MD5DEEP, FIDO, EXIFTOOL, and BagIt. Participants will receive an introduction to the command line and a demonstration of these tools in a workflow that breaks down the steps most digital preservation software automates for you. Watch this webinar if you want to learn more about the command line, gain a deeper practical understanding of digital preservation activities, and make more informed decisions about the workflows you build. Watch Building an Easy Digital Preservation Workflow with Small Tools to learn how to use more free digital preservation tools and build your workflow.

The field of digital forensics often evokes imagery of prime-time television crime dramas. But what is it, and how can archivists put digital forensics tools and processes to use in their home institutions? Archivists are more likely than ever to be confronted with collections containing removable storage media (e.g., floppy disks, hard drives, thumb drives, memory sticks, and CDs). These media provide limited accessibility and may endanger the electronic records housed within, due to obsolescence and loss over time. Caring for these records requires archivists to extract whatever useful information resides on the medium while avoiding the accidental alteration of data or metadata.

 You’ll explore the layers of hardware and software that allow bitstreams on digital media to be read as files, the roles and relationships of these layers, and tools and techniques for ensuring the completeness and evidential value of data.

Digital Humanities for State and Local History is an AASLH Continuing Education recorded webinar. This webinar is about digital technologies, approaches, and platforms to those interested in developing digital state and local history in low and no-cost environments. We will define the field, explore a subset of projects that can serve as a model for one’s own, and discuss common issues beginners face in becoming fluent in digital humanities. Digital archiving, storytelling, visualization, and data analysis will all be discussed through explorations of OpenRefine, Scalar, Tableau, Carto, Murkutu, and other tools. In addition reading lists, hyperlinks, and resources will be shared following the Q&A.

Are you considering implementing an archival collections management system (ACMS) such as ArchivesSpace or Collective Access? Are you overwhelmed by the process of selecting the right tool for your institution? This webcast—which is based on the original webcast developed by Lisa Spiro and her report about archival management software issued by the Council on Library and Information Resources—will take you through the process of evaluating and selecting a content management system.

Is your organization planning on acquiring a Collections Management System (CMS)? This webinar will help you plan the process whether you are acquiring a CMS for the first time or changing to a new one. You’ll learn about the important steps in putting together an RFP and how to prepare for a transition into a new system. 

Speakers Shelia Carey and Jessica Jenkins are co-authors of the forthcoming Technical Leaflet: Choosing a Collections Management System. Webinar participants will receive a copy of the Technical Leaflet.

This workshop addresses recent efforts in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to help archives, libraries, and museums both manage and enhance their A/V content. Specifically, we describe applications being developed within two multimedia AI platforms, AMP and CLAMS. AMP (Audiovisual Metadata Platform) is an open source software platform that leverages automated machine learning-based tools together with human expertise to build workflows to create and augment metadata for AV resources to improve discovery, rights determination, and use. The CLAMS platform (Computational Linguistic tools for Multimedia Services) is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project to help create better metadata for audiovisual collections. We have been working with the American Archive and WGBH to create workflows for AI and NLP tools to help with search, navigation, and discovery over their A/V content.

OpenRefine is a free open-source tool that makes editing messy metadata easier through clustering, faceting, advanced find and replace scripting, and linked data reconciliation in a spreadsheet-like environment. In addition to cleaning up metadata, OpenRefine’s linked data and URL building tools can extend metadata through databases and API calls.

Omeka is an open source web-publishing platform used by many libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural organizations for creating online exhibits of materials from their collections. This course provides the opportunity to explore the exhibit-building process and gain hands-on experience in creating a professional-level exhibit on a topic of your choice.

Does it matter if a software or format is “open” as long as it works and the price is right? Is using “free” stuff professionally a good idea? Will “open stuff” make things worse? Who supports and maintains Open Source? Who is “the community”?

To kick off AMIA’s Open Source Tools webinar series, Peter Bubestinger-Steindl will give a short talk that will provide practical experience-based insights into all these questions, as well as how free open source software (FOSS) may save your day(s)! Peter will also discuss what to expect, plan for and avoid to get high quality, long term sustainable digital solutions.

embARC (“metadata embedded for archival content”) was first introduced in 2019 by the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI), AVP and PortalMedia as a free, open source software application that enables users to audit and correct embedded metadata to comply with FADGI guidelines. Recent development in 2020-2021 has expanded the scope of embARC to meet the evolving user needs and workflows of the audiovisual preservation community. Two major improvements are 1) the new release of the CLI (command line interface) version to support both individual DPX files or an entire DPX sequence while not impacting the image data and allowing users to include embARC services in automated and logical workflows with other applications more easily without requiring user interface interaction, and 2) the inclusion of the MXF format in the embARC GUI version which, along with existing DPX functionality, now also supports the SMPTE RDD 48: MXF Archive and Preservation Format guidelines. T

This course introduces the basic concepts and skills for using Git and GitHub, a popular version control system and platform, in a library setting. Git and GitHub are often used to manage open source software, library technology, and academic research projects. Individuals and teams use Git to record changes within a project’s source code and GitHub to share and publish their work online. Library staff are using these technologies to support work in a variety of contexts, including metadata, data analysis, digital humanities, open educational resources, archives, and open science. While this course focuses on the fundamentals of Git and GitHub, students will pick up some basic command-line and plain-text editing skills along the way.

A two-part webinar series taking place on Wednesday, April 9 and Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 2:30pm Eastern/1:30pm Central/12:30pm Mountain/11:30am Pacific.

In this two-session event, you’ll gain concrete strategies for taking your website to the next level. Library website expert Laura Solomon will show you how to identify and remove pages you no longer need and make your streamlined site sleeker and more functional. 

If you aren’t thinking about your site’s accessibility, you should be. Web Accessibility is not just a trend—more and more it is a legal requirement. In this webinar, library website expert Laura Solomon will take you through the principles of Web Accessibility, the library’s obligations around this issue, and best practices for implementing changes.

Explore how artificial intelligence can revolutionize libraries by enhancing accessibility, streamlining operations, and fostering community connections. In this session, Brian Pichman will share innovative AI applications tailored for libraries, focusing on open and transparent solutions that empower both public and academic institutions. Discover strategies for integrating AI technologies in marketing, user interaction, and information dissemination, ensuring libraries remain at the forefront of knowledge and technology in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. This webinar was previously presented in-person as a session at the 2024 Core Forum. We are hosting this webinar, with the session adapted and presented live as a virtual event, to extend its reach.

With a glut of online information, see how to curate and organize all your online resources using several digital tools. Streamline your digital library for teachers and students, and integrate all your favorite Google and design tools to improve productivity and collaboration, while showcasing good digital citizenship.

What better way to market your library program than empowering users to virtually experience all it has to offer 24/7? Increase patron confidence and comfort when browsing your library through an interactive 3-D virtual tour, embedding audio, video, helpful links, and even surveys and online chats so that all readers - avid, occasional, struggling, reluctant - can be fully immersed in the library experience.

This informative introduction to Hyku, the powerful open-source repository solution tailored for small- to medium-sized libraries, will demonstrate its uses as both an institutional repository and a digital repository for cultural heritage items, open educational resources, and theses and dissertations. Hyku offers intuitive upload processes and robust bulk import/export capabilities. Its shared search functionality across multiple Hyku libraries can enhance discoverability and collaboration. In addition to a review of Hyku's features, this session will highlight real-world use cases and ongoing development efforts, equipping libraries with the knowledge to leverage this tool for current needs. Take advantage of this opportunity to explore how Hyku can transform your library's digital repository management!

Websites are accessible when all visitors — regardless of abilities or impairments — can access the presented information. The broad term web accessibility refers to a series of international standards that define website usability. Understand the fundamentals of web accessibility and the regulations, laws, and standards surrounding accessibility design. Utilize tools and technologies for better design and best practices for content development.

Since 2007, this distinguished symposium has provided an essential forum for domain experts to share insights and address pressing challenges in digital content management.

This year's focused, single-track programming features speakers from world-renowned institutions including MoMA, Getty, the Library of Congress, The Huntington, and Yale University. Attendees will gain practical insights on enhancing access, streamlining workflows, maintaining content provenance, and ensuring long-term preservation of digital collections.

The DataCite Connect event in Chicago, co-located with the Open Repositories conference, provides a forum for DataCite members and the broader community to discuss best practices, identify new opportunities for collaboration, and provide feedback on DataCite’s services. DataCite Connect Chicago will take place on 18 June 2025 at 13:30–17:00 Central Time. 

The session will focus on exploring how the repository community is using DataCite to enable discovery and reuse of repository content, showcasing implementations and providing interactive opportunities to dive deeper into DataCite tools and services. There will also be time for Q&A and networking.

In today's data-driven world, effective management of information is crucial for businesses and organizations to thrive. This introductory course will guide you on how to expand taxonomies to ontologies and provide a solid foundation for professionals seeking to enhance their skills in structuring and leveraging complex information systems.

Over four modules, participants will journey from the basics of taxonomy to the advanced concepts of ontology, gaining practical skills and insights along the way. The course is designed to blend theoretical knowledge with hands-on exercises, ensuring a well-rounded learning experience.

This workshop will meet daily March 31st to April 4th for one hour starting at 18:00 SAST / 18:00 CEST / 17:00 BST / 12:00PM EDT / 09:00AM PDT and as such will be suitable for people in Africa, Europe, the UK, North America (East) and North America (West).

No prior knowledge of IIIF is required and the core sessions should be easily accessible to those with confidence using the Web. Prior knowledge of HTML and JSON syntax is useful but not required. Tutoring and support opportunities are available via Slack and one-on-one Zoom meetings. By the end of the workshop, participants will have completed a small IIIF project, which they will demo for the group at the final meeting.

The 2025 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Annual Conference will be held in Leeds, UK June 2–5, 2025, and will be hosted jointly by the University of Leeds and the IIIF Consortium.

This event is intended for a wide range of participants and interested parties, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software developers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organizations working with digital images and audio/visual materials.

This workshop will meet daily May 19th to May 23rd for one hour starting at 15:00 SAST / 15:00 CEST / 14:00 BST / 09:00AM EDT and as such will be suitable for people in Africa, Europe, the UK and North America (East).

No prior knowledge of IIIF is required and the core sessions should be easily accessible to those with confidence using the Web. Prior knowledge of HTML and JSON syntax is useful but not required. Tutoring and support opportunities are available via Slack and one-on-one Zoom meetings. By the end of the workshop, participants will have completed a small IIIF project, which they will demo for the group at the final meeting.

This workshop will meet daily September 29th to October 3rd for one hour starting at 18:00 SAST / 18:00 CEST / 17:00 BST / 12:00PM EDT / 09:00AM PDT and as such will be suitable for people in Africa, Europe, the UK, North America (East) and North America (West).

No prior knowledge of IIIF is required and the core sessions should be easily accessible to those with confidence using the Web. Prior knowledge of HTML and JSON syntax is useful but not required. Tutoring and support opportunities are available via Slack and one-on-one Zoom meetings. By the end of the workshop, participants will have completed a small IIIF project, which they will demo for the group at the final meeting.