DCHDC Meetup: Open Collections & Digital Storytelling

The July meetup will feature a talk by Effie Kapsalis (http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/author/kapsalise) on open collections and a two-part talk on the workshop "Digital Storytelling & Museums (http://digitalstorytellingtenement.weebly.com/)" convened by the Tenement Museum and the National Endowment for the Humanities in New York earlier this spring. We hope you will join us!

Effie Kapsalis's talk is titled "So You Released Your Collections Openly, Now What?" Kapsalis is head of web, new media, and outreach at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and has more than 20 years of experience in educational and cultural heritage development.

The second talk will be put together by several participants in the "Digital Storytelling & Museums" workshop, including Patricia Brooks, Silvina Fernandez-Duque, Kate Haley Goldman, Jessica Konigsberg, and David McKenzie, representing among other local institutions Ford's Theatre, the Sewall-Belmont House, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. We'll hear about both the workshop itself and the continuing conversation since then about how to bring digital technology to bear on museum practices and outreach.

The schedule is as follows:

• 6:30—Arrivals and socializing, with a break partway through for introductions

• 7:00—Lightning talks

• 7:30—Announcements and more socializing

• 8:00—Formally adjourn the meeting to a local bar/eatery.

If you'd like to nominate yourself to give a lightning talk at one of our fall meetings (September 20th, October 18th, November 15th or December 20th), please use the following Doodle poll link:

http://doodle.com/poll/eu39kab48gqudv9a

This poll is just for people who would like to be speakers at future meetings. Please continue to use the interface here to RSVP to attend future Meetups.