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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
- About DLF and the Organizers' Toolkit
- Working with Team DLF
- Starting a New Initiative or Working Group
- General Facilitation and Goal-Setting
- Facilitating for Diversity and Inclusion
- Preventing and Managing Burnout
- Gathering Info/Building Enthusiasm
- Planning an In-Person Meetup
- Setting Up Year-Round Meetings
- Planning Virtual Meetings and Webinars
- Talking and Writing
- Organizing and Sharing Your Work
- In a Nutshell
Hosted/Sponsored Groups and Projects
- National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)
- DLF eResearch Network
- DLF Legible Learning Project (coming Summer 2017)
- OpenLab
- 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)
- AIG Cost Assessment Group (home of the DLF Digitization Cost Calculator)
- AIG Cultural Assessment Group
- AIG Metadata Assessment Group
- AIG User Studies Group
- DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Group (aka #DLFteach)
- DLF Project Managers Group (PMG)
- DLF Metadata Support Group (MSG)
- DLF Working Group on Technologies of Surveillance
- DLF Digital Scholarship Working Group
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
Need help?
Contact Team DLF or email info(at)diglib.org to have editing privileges enabled or to ask for help at any time!
- Editing syntax, etc: MediaWiki User's Guide
- MediaWiki FAQ