Presentations & Posters

Media	Summary
Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference, April 27, 2018	Surfacing collections across Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) allows us to tell stories and share otherwise obscure specimens, artifacts, or records. A BC Digital Library has transformative potential to show complexity of people and places to amplify local collections, and to make our past available to help shape social discourse. But it must be built, and maintained into the future. A growing group of GLAM institutions are finding ways to get it done through radical collaboration. A panel discussion with Ben Hyman, Dave Steward and Daniel Sifton.
GovInfo Day, April 20, 2018	Caroline Daniels and Dan Sifton presented to the BC Government librarians at their annual meeting. The presentation covers the BCDL timeline and infrastructure.
Museums and the Web, Vancouver April 18-21, 2018	Ben Hyman, University Librarian from Vancouver Island University, and David Stewart, Digital Manager from the Royal BC Museum recount tales of rapid prototyping, job sharing across sectors, the looming question of metadata standards, and the results from a probing survey – a pulse check of who needs what, and most of all, how the GLAM sector can help each other.
Ontario Library Association Super Conference, February 2018	A joint presentation with OurDigitalWorld that describes the partnership between BCDL and ODW.
Code4Lib BC in Nanaimo, Dec. 1, 2017	Code4Lib BC traveled to Nanaimo and Dan Sifton presented on the Supplejack Triclops Architecture .
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 29-23, 2017, Toronto	A showcase for the cloud-based docker instance of Supplejack. Poster includes the process for harvesting and ingesting metadata from both the BC and the Ontario jurisdictions in a variety of schemas and formats, from IRs at GLAM institutions and even places like YouTube. Three separate Ember.js front ends: one for ON, one for BC, and one that does both, and scoped user permisions for the harvesting interface by region included. Coupled with the architecture this allows for the implementation of a shared supplejack instance, either on a large scale (i.e. cross provincial) or a smaller scale (shared hub instances in a single province).
BC Studies, May 4-6, 2017 VIU (Nanaimo)	The poster covers BCDL history, timelines, guiding principles and technical infrastructure.
Archives Association of BC and ARMA Joint Conference, April 27-28, 2017	A poster session and brief overview of the initiative was presented to the Archives community.
BC Library Conference Presentation, April 21, 2017	A presentation by Steering Committee members on the value of digital collections was accompanied by a demo of the BCDL. An update on the National Heritage Digitization Strategy was delivered from their Steering Committee Chair, Sandra Singh.