A monthly round-up of news, upcoming working group meetings and events, and CLIR program updates from the Digital Library Federation. See all past Digests here.
Hello DLF Community! It’s November, which means it’s finally, finally, finally time for the Forum in Denver! After months of preparation, we are so excited to welcome many of you to convene in person in the Mile High City for the 2025 DLF Forum and Learn@DLF. If you can’t make it, be sure to check the Forum website soon for shared notes, uploaded presentations, and information on how to stream our fantastic opening plenary talk by featured speaker Dr. KáLyn Coghill. Read on for news about what else is going on in our community this month.
— Aliya from Team DLF
This month’s news:
- Community Call: IIIF welcomes the team from DadoCM–a minimal, system-agnostic framework for describing digital objects with archival principles–to their Community Call on November 12 at 12pm ET / 9am PT. More info is available on the IIIF Community Calendar.
- Working Group Survey: The DLF Assessment Interest Group, Metadata Working Group (MWG) is conducting a brief survey — expected to take around 5 minutes or less — to gather data for planning next year’s activities. If you are a current or former member of the MWG or have any interest in metadata assessment and quality activities, please consider answering a few questions.
- Working Group Call for Proposals: The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Working Group invites proposals for practical, adaptable teaching materials that use digital methods in music and sound contexts which will be published as part of the #DLFteach Toolkit. Proposals are due December 5. Learn more and submit here.
This month’s open DLF group meetings:
For the most up-to-date schedule of DLF group meetings and events (plus NDSA meetings, conferences, and more), bookmark the DLF Community Calendar. Meeting dates are subject to change. Can’t find the meeting call-in information? Email us at info@diglib.org. Reminder: Team DLF working days are Monday through Thursday.
- DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group (DAWG): Tuesday, 11/4, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group (BDAWG): Tuesday, 11/4, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF AIG Metadata Assessment: Thursday, 11/6, 1:15 pm ET / 10:15 am PT
- DLF AIG Cultural Assessment Working Group: Monday, 11/10, 1pm ET / 10am PT
- DLF AIG User Experience Working Group: Friday, 11/21, 11am ET / 8am PT
- DLF Digitization Interest Group: Monday, 11/24, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF Climate Justice Working Group: Tuesday, 11/25, 1pm ET / 10am PT
DLF groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether or not you’re affiliated with a DLF member organization. Learn more about our working groups on our website. Interested in scheduling an upcoming working group call or reviving a past group? Check out the DLF Organizer’s Toolkit. As always, feel free to get in touch at info@diglib.org.
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