LAAC is not affiliated with this event (but we think it's a great opportunity!). 

October 12th from 9:30am-12:30pm at the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar.

In this free, half-day interactive workshop, you'll learn how to increase the discoverability of your digital collections by making them available through regional and national-level aggregations like Calisphere (from the California Digital Library) and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Aggregators provide additional points of access to your holdings and can drive more user traffic back to your digital collections management system by virtue of their scale and visibility to search engines.

Visit the "Better Sharing Through Metadata" workshop wiki for additional information, including scheduling and registration.

Workshop topics include:

• Best practices for creating shareable metadata
• Simple tools and strategies that you can use to prepare and share your digital collections
• Leveraging Calisphere and DPLA as free aggregation services that are available to cultural heritage institutions in California

Upon completion of this workshop, participants should have a good understanding of the relationship between local metadata considerations and those necessary for optimal discovery within aggregations, and will be well-positioned to draw on strategies and free services to make their collections more discoverable.

The workshop series is offered as part of our "Harvesting California's Bounty" project (2018-2019) and is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), administered in California by the State Librarian.