Training & Development

This page contains pointers to conferences and workshops, courses, online tutorials and professional journals in this field. Information about upcoming training events of particular interest to NDF partners will also be listed under News. If you would like to suggest a training and development resource for this section, please check the selection criteria and contact us.

D-Lib Ready Reference: Meetings, conferences and workshops
A comprehensive international list of digital library meetings, workshops, and conferences, as well as other activities associated with digital libraries research and technologies with archives.
http://www.dlib.org/groups.html

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
Held annually in the United States.
http://www.jcdl.org/past-event-conf.shtml

European Conference on Research and Advance Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL)
Held annually in Europe.
2007 = http://www.ecdl2007.org

International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL)
Held annually in Asia.
http://www.icadl.org

Museums and the Web
Archives and Museums Informatics
Held annually in America or Canada.
http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html

Digital Libraries (LIBR 547)
Victoria University Wellington
This paper (part of the MLIS course at VUW) can be taken on its own by distance.
http://www.sim.vuw.ac.nz/degrees/mlis/547-details.aspx

DELOS Summer School
The 2008 DELOS Summer School on Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries will run from the 8th to the 14th June 2008. It will take place in Italy. The DELOS Network of Excellence is a four-year project funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme to synergize and foster technology for the next-generation of Digital Libraries. Participation in the School assists attendees in understanding how to address digital preservation challenges within the context of the digital library. In addition, the School provides a networking opportunity by creating the opportunity to meet with other researchers, international experts, and practitioners across disciplinary and national boundaries.
http://www.dpc.delos.info/ss08

Rare Book School: Electronic Texts and Imaging (using TEI and XML) (Feb-03)
University of Virginia Rare Book School
This four-day course (L70 and L75) is run by the University of Virginia Electronic Text Centre. In 2002 it was also held at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre in Wellington. A hands on course; by the end you will have converted part of a manuscript or book into a searchable electronic text using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and XML. The reading lists are useful.
http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/libraries/l70/

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial
Cornell University - Anne Kenney
An excellent tutorial based on the book by renowned author Anne Kenney of Cornell University.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html

Text Encoding Tutorials
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium

Links to some generic TEI introductory readings and manuals, and also a selection of tutorial guides prepared by members of the TEI community.
http://www.tei-c.org/Tutorials/

RLG Diginews
Research Libraries Group
A bi-monthly web-based newsletter aimed at managers of digital initiatives. Provides filtered guidance and pointers to relevant projects, improving awareness of evolving practices in image conversion and digital archiving. Also features announcements for related publications.
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews

D-Lib Magazine
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
Published 11 times a year in electronic form only. The magazine focuses on digital library research and development for the digital library community.
http://www.dlib.org

Ariadne
UK Office for Library Networking (UKOLN)
Published quarterly and aimed at UK academic information professionals, this journal provides good coverage of digital library initiatives to readers world wide and covers the latest service and networking developments.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk

What's New in Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI)
A web-based quarterly summary of recent activity in the field of digital preservation, compiled using information from the PADI gateway and digital preservation mailing lists.
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/index.html

Digital Document Quarterly (DDQ)
H M Gladney
A new quarterly web-based journal focusing on digital preservation.
http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm