2026 Conference Programs

An experiment in community-engaged digital humanities within the interstices of minimal computing, we explore the development of minimal archiving processes and a curation protocol rooted in ethical and sustainable memory care-work, while responding to the erasure of local memory and present-day community activism around nuclear guardianship.

This lightning talk shows how AI coding assistants helped transform a public history master’s project into an interactive website centered on a dataset of anti-Chinese racial terror. I discuss Cursor-assisted site development, ChatGPT-guided infrastructure, publication-ready visualizations, and a grounded Ask the Archive chatbot designed to prevent hallucinated cases and links.

Archivists at UVA’s Claude Moore Health Sciences Library replaced an outdated NAS with bit rot risks affecting PHI. Partnering with library and health system IT, they implemented a HIPAA-compliant DAS, secure workstation, and cloud storage. Migration is underway; this talk highlights requirements, workflows, collaboration, and ongoing data protection goals.

Metavus for Museums is a project extending Metavus, a free and open source digital collections platform, for the physical collections of arts and heritage organizations. Working with Bread and Puppet Theater, we adapted Metavus for their museum and archives. This talk shares ideas and takeaways from this project.

This lightening talk shares how one academic library produced digital storytelling artifacts to extend the reach of scholarship and engage community audiences. Drawing on video initiatives, I’ll position libraries as partners in digital research dissemination, offering a practice-based model for amplifying faculty work through creative production and community-centered collaboration.

This presentation covers the results of an environmental scan conducted by the Current Gaps in Tech Strategy subgroup of the DLF Technology Strategy for Archives (TS4A) Working Group on the current state of technological ecosystems in archival information systems in cultural heritage institutions across Canada and the United States.

This presentation shares how digital collection design and metadata gathering workflows helped enhance discovery of Latin American and Caribbean political ephemera. By capturing item-level metadata at scale and enabling cross-repository harvesting, the project integrates collections into broader networks, transforming ephemera into discoverable, interoperable data for sustained access and comparative scholarship.