The SEI Team will provide an orientation to SEI and facilitate a collaborative goal setting exercise for the week ahead. This session will not be recorded. Attendance is highly encouraged.

Instructor: Nancy Sims

Understanding copyright, fair use, and licensing in regard to the use of visual materials is essential to successfully managing digital projects. This session will provide an overview of copyright issues specific to the cultural heritage and visual resource fields, including fair use, other exceptions, and specific digital and web issues. Read more

Instructor: Nancy Sims

Understanding copyright, fair use, and licensing in regard to the use of visual materials is essential to successfully managing digital projects. This session will provide an overview of copyright issues specific to the cultural heritage and visual resource fields, including fair use, other exceptions, and specific digital and web issues. Read more

Instructor: Theresa Berger

This session will introduce participants to all aspects of the digitization workflow, from selection to preparation, scanning to quality assurance of newly created files. We will discuss best practices and standards within cultural heritage digitization, with an emphasis on visual resources and still image materials. Read more

Instructor: Selena Ortega-Chiolero

This session will explore how the nature of collections and user intent can help guide the selection process for a digital repository (digital asset management, collections management, and access systems). Read more

Instructors: Dan Rael and Nathan Kerr

This session will provide an overview of working with a modern collections management system including the basics of creating a record utilizing standardized terms and fields, and adding images and other files. Students will also learn how collection records can be shared internally or externally- publishing to the web- using an API. Students will be encouraged to create their own free online collections management accounts to continue to build skills at their own pace. Read more

Instructor: Kelly Farrell

In this session, we will delve into accessibility and its connections to digital resources. Students will learn the importance of accessibility to their user groups, what to consider when reviewing materials and creating content, and how to practically apply these considerations. Read more

Instructor: Treshani Perera

This workshop introduces the foundational principles and best practices of critical cataloging, providing attendees with practical tools for creating ethical and inclusive metadata. Participants will learn how critical cataloging, an extension of critical librarianship, informs more thoughtful and responsible metadata creation. Read more

Instructor: Grete Graf

This session introduces digital preservation, explores key concepts in the field, and discusses strategies to maintain the integrity of digital content over time. The course will also cover emerging technologies and challenges and their impact on digital preservation work. Read more

Instructor: Cristela Garcia-Spitz

This session is a practical introduction to managing digital projects, from scoping, budgeting, staffing, and workflow creation. This session is designed to give participants knowledge and tools to apply to many different types of digital projects. Read more

The SEI Team will facilitate a discussion with participants to close out SEI 2025. This session will not be recorded. Attendance is highly encouraged.