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Welcome! DLF's wiki was created in 2014 for our various interest groups and affiliated organizations to share information, best practices, and community notes. (See the main Digital Library Federation website for info on DLF programs, fellowships, publications, and events.)

This wiki is also the home of our DLF Organizers' Toolkit!

DLF Organizers' Toolkit

1. About DLF and the Organizers' Toolkit
2. Working with Team DLF
3. Starting a New Initiative or Working Group
4. General Facilitation and Goal-Setting
5. Facilitating for Diversity and Inclusion
6. Communications and Consensus
7. Preventing and Managing Burnout
8. Gathering Info/Building Enthusiasm
9. Planning an In-Person Meetup
10. Setting Up Year-Round Meetings
11. Planning Virtual Meetings and Webinars
12. Talking and Writing
13. Organizing and Sharing Your Work
14. In a Nutshell

Hosted/Sponsored Groups and Projects

• National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)
• DLF eResearch Network
• OpenLab Workshop 2015
• annual AMIA-DLF Hack Days (2013-present)
• annual Endangered Data Week

DLF Working Groups

Not all DLF groups maintain wiki pages. Find more activity here.

• DLF Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries
• DLF Government Records Transparency & Accountability Interest Group
• DLF Assessment Interest Group (AIG)

1. AIG Cost Assessment Group (home of the DLF Digitization Cost Calculator)
2. AIG Cultural Assessment Group
3. AIG Metadata Assessment Group
4. AIG User Studies Group
   1. AIG User/UX Group
   2. AIG Content Reuse Group

• DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Group (aka #DLFteach)

1. #DLFteach Outreach Group
2. #DLFteach Professional Development Group
3. #DLFteach DOCC Group

• DLF Project Managers Group (PMG)
• DLF Metadata Support Group (MSG)
• DLF Working Group on Privacy and Ethics in Technology (formerly known as Technologies of Surveillance)
• DLF Digital Scholarship Working Group
• DLF Committee for Equity and Inclusion
• DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group
• DLF Digital Accessibility Group (DAWG)
• DLF Museums Cohort
• DLF Technology Strategy for Archives Working Group (TS4A)

Digitization and CLIR Hidden Collections Resources

These resources will be of particular interest to grant applicants for CLIR's Hidden Collections and Recordings at Risk programs and to anyone planning a digitization project.

• DLF Digitization Cost Calculator
• Digitizing Special Formats (resource library)
• Strategies for Advancing Hidden Collections free webinars and helpful guides
• Hidden Collections Applicant Toolkit videos created by DLF

1. Common Challenges
2. Rights, Ethics, and Re-Use
3. Sustainability
4. Institutional Capacity + Community

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