Candid audience shot during DtMH2016
“Hi there Tiiiigggggrrr!” Edward McCain, digital curator of journalism, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) and University of Missouri Libraries warmly greets the participants of DtMH2016
Special guest speaker: Saving the first draft of history: The unlikely rescue of the AP’s Vietnam War files Peter Arnett, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for journalism
What Have We Heard?
Lanyard and ID badge from DtMH2016
Presentation: Technology and community: Why we need partners, collaborators, and friends Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
Presentation: Summarizing archival collections using storytelling techniques Michael Nelson, Ph.D., Old Dominion University
Conduits for Action
Keynote speaker: Digital salvage operations — what’s worth saving? Hjalmar Gislason, vice president of data, Qlik and Deaf Teddy
Greetings from Ginny Steel, university librarian, UCLA
Slide from Technology and community: Why we need partners, collaborators, and friends Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
What does Peter Arnett, the most daring journalist of the past century, do to unwind? He reads comic books of course.
Panel: Why save online news? Chris Freeland, Washington University; Matt Weber, Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Laura Wrubel, The George Washington University; moderator Ana Krahmer, Ph.D., University of North Texas
Architectural detail in Powell Library at UCLA
Details for the conference can be found at Dodging the Memory Hole 2016.
The Journalism Digital News Archive has posted a nice bunch of photos as well.
My previous posts and notes about the conference: