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Sent on behalf of RLUK and TNA, this message may be of interest to M25 list members. Kind regards, Thomas Baldwin M25 Executive Manager DCDC19 | Navigating the digital shift: practices and possibilities 12-14 November 2019 :: BCEC, Birmingham The call for papers for the DCDC19 Conference<http://dcdcconference.com/> is open, and we welcome submissions relating to this year’s theme of ‘Navigating the digital shift’. Read the full call for papers on the DCDC Conference website<http://dcdcconference.com/cfp/>. DCDC19 will explore the possibilities of the digital shift for collections, audience expectations, and professional practices. It seeks to go beyond recounting the huge change that the digital shift has represented, and to examine possibilities for the future. Archives, libraries, and museums have long championed the role of information technology within their respective organisations and sectors, from the implementation of electronic finding aids and the first online catalogues to the mass digitisation of collections to enable access and re-use. Augmented reality has brought museum objects into our living rooms, while the growth of electronic journals and ebooks has seen entire libraries at our fingertips. Archives, libraries, and museums have continually adapted their content and services to reflect the different ways people are using technology. As a result, we are now working not only as the custodians and curators of digital content, but as the creators of digital material, often in collaboration with academics, students, members of the public, artists, and a range of other groups. Web 3.0 presents numerous opportunities for archives, libraries, and museums to redesign services, engage with new audiences and work with existing groups, in different and exciting ways. DCDC19 invites proposals on this year’s theme of ‘navigating the digital shift’ on any project involving archives, libraries, museums and other heritage and cultural organisations in partnership with each other, communities and the academic sector. The main conference theme will include, but are not limited to, the following: * Rise of the machines: artificial intelligence, interpretation, and creativity * Digital inclusion: use of digital technology to increase engagement with collections amongst diverse communities and open up collections to new audiences * Internet of Things: augmenting and evaluating audience engagement * User insight and respecting data privacy * Google and the catalogue: equipping the researcher for 21st-century research * The record: authenticity and trust * The effect of the digital shift on collecting practices * Putting digital collections to work to enable digital scholarship and creativity * Scan it, save it, sell it? Funding, commercial opportunities and entrepreneurship * The challenge of born digital records: preservation, discoverability, and use * Navigating the shift in skills, practices, and professional culture in the digital age * Meaningful engagement: measures and metrics to chart the impact of digital collections * The challenge of discoverability of digital records Read the full call for papers on the DCDC Conference website<http://dcdcconference.com/cfp/>. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the LIS-M25 list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=LIS-M25&A=1