2026 Conference Programs

Minimal Infrastructure for Urgent Community-Based Digital Archives: Memory Care-work and Rocky Flats Nuclear Containment Activism

Kadallah Burrowes¹, Sydney Neal¹, Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara¹, Chris Allred², Giselle Herzfeld²

1: University of Colorado Boulder, United States of America; 2: Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center

Building an Data and Artifact Centered Digital History Project with Cursor and Grounded AI

Kevin Hegg

James Madison University, United States of America

Replacing and Migrating Legacy Preservation Storage in a HIPAA-Regulated Repository

Emma Semrau, Amanda Greenwood

University of Virginia, United States of America

Partner Talk: Digital Curation: When Collections Come Alive

James Rein

ResourceSpace, United Kingdom

This Digital Collections Platform Catalogs Puppets? Extending Metavus for Arts and Cultural Heritage Organizations

Elizabeth De Angelis

Internet Scout Research Group, United States of America

Extending the Reach: Library-Led Digital Storytelling as Community Engagement and Scholarly Amplification

Hayley Blackburn

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Mapping Archival Technological Ecosystems in Canada and the United States

Allie Querengesser¹, Jessica McMillen², Michelle Paquette³, Rachel Van Unen⁴

1: University of Calgary, Canada; 2: West Virginia University, United States of America; 3: Smith College, United States of America; 4: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America

Make It Searchable, Keep It Meaningful: Rethinking Ephemera in Digital Libraries

Sudha Anand

Indiana University, United States of America

Mapping Black Life Beyond the Archive: StoryMaps + AACAT-1870

Dr. kYmberly Keeton

ART | library deco, United States of America

Introduction to Modern Islandora: Architecture, Metadata, and Discoverability

Natalie Baur¹, Akanksha Singh², Joe Corall³, Aubrey Shannahan⁴

1: University of Iowa Libraries, United States of America; 2: Independent Consultant; 3: Lehigh University; 4: Islandora Foundation

Visualize It: Designing Impactful and Accessible Data Visualizations

Peter Lawson, Inna Kouper

Johns Hopkins University, United States of America

Beyond Budgets: An Introduction to Financial Sustainability Planning

Jackson Huang, Katherine Kim

Educopia, United States of America

Developing Community Archiving Capacities in Northwest Alaska

Kara Long¹, Andi Ogier¹, Lucy Boyd², Chris Lindgren³, Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq¹

1: Virginia Tech; 2: Aqqaluk Trust; 3: North Carolina State University

Humans in the Loop: Privacy-Focused AI Solutions for Digital Collections Alt-Text

Jason Boczar, Amanda Boczar, Ann Abney

University of South Florida, United States of America

Voices in 360 Degrees: The Power of Immersive Storytelling

Eli Wachter, Justin Wadland, Eric Montgomery

Michigan State University, United States of America

Partner Session: A publisher's approach to AI in digital collections

Jessica Kowalski, Richard Tattersall

AM Quartex, United Kingdom

Capturing Community: Campus-Community Partnerships to Amplify and Preserve Regional Black History

Amy Bocko¹, Chianté Hamilton², JB Brown²

1: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America; 2: Society for History and Racial Equity (SHARE), Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America

Building Metadata Frameworks for an Archive of Racial Violence

Joy Zanghi, Drew Facklam

Northeastern University, United States of America

From Baseline to Build: Embedding Digital Preservation Goals in Repository Development

Jessica Venlet, Lance Stuchell

University of Michigan, United States of America

When the Elders Fall Silent: Building Offline Community Archives with Fedora Across Rural African Communities

Yakub Damola Yakub, Abdbasit Saba

Globalstudentsnest

Bringing History to the Future: AI Storytelling for Cultural Institutions

Hassna Ramadan, Jaurel Rogers

LibShack

Unlocking Hidden Metadata: Using Computer Vision to Automatically Extract Physical Dimensions from Digitized Cultural Heritage Collections

Sean Fraga, Minyu Huang

University of Southern California, United States of America

DLF Working Group Session: Launch of the new Responsible Digital Representation Working Group

Sarah Lynn Fisher¹, Alexandra Alisa Provo², Jackson Huang³

1: University of North Texas, United States of America; 2: New York University; 3: Educopia

Everything Everywhere All Accessible at Once

Emily E. Boss, Katherine Dirk, Kristian Trinidad

University of Nevada, Reno, United States of America