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<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our September <b>in-person meeting </b>at 10 a.m. on
<b>Wednesday, Sept 13, 2023 </b>at the Martin De Porres Center in Columbus, to learn about Accessibility in Digital Collections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Registration:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124"> Open until Friday Sept 8, 5pm or until room capacity of
100 is reached. Google Form: <a href="https://forms.gle/6wJrQeowdx4tDkUA9">https://forms.gle/6wJrQeowdx4tDkUA9</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Topic: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124"> <b>Accessibility in Digital Collections</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">As we strive to make collections and materials more accessible, we’ve often neglected to consider accessible to who, and accessible in
what ways. Join us as OhioDIG takes a look into what accessibility is, and see how some institutions are taking steps to rectify their workflows and records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Speakers:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">—<b> "Making Archives Accessible."</b>
<b>Michelle Ganz, director of Archives, Dominican Sisters of Peace. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">This presentation will discuss easy ways to make archival materials accessible to users and potential users as well as
archival workers. We will discuss steps to take to ensure that websites and online exhibits are accessible and why accessibility is an important component of a digitization program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">— <b>"Image Accessibility for Digitized Cultural Heritage Collections." Sidney Gao, digital collections manager, University of Cincinnati
Libraries. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Learn how to enhance the accessibility of image-based digital collections by writing good, descriptive alternate-text
(alt-text) and image descriptions. While this talk will focus on digitized cultural heritage collections, the principles can be applied to images in many use cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">—
<b>"Ohio State’s Digital Content Accessibility Workflow Taskforce."</b> <b>Joey Schulte, digital accessibility and licensing analyst, The Ohio State University Libraries. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">In July 2022, Ohio State University Libraries created a Taskforce to take stock of the current state of its digital accessibility
efforts in relation to the content it stewards across all units in the library. The Taskforce then made recommendations on how to comply with<a href="https://das.osu.edu/sites/default/files/2020/11/policy-final-digital-accessibility-20210518.pdf"> Ohio State’s
Digital Accessibility Policy</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Program Contacts:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Adam Wanter, MidPointe Library System (<a href="mailto:awanter@midpointelibrary.org">awanter@midpointelibrary.org</a>); Sidney Gao, University of Cincinnati Libraries (<a href="mailto:gaosy@ucmail.uc.edu">gaosy@ucmail.uc.edu</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Host:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124"> Michelle Ganz, Dominican Sisters of Peace Archives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Date: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 10AM-1PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Site: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124"><a href="https://oppeace.org/">Dominican Sisters of
Peace</a> Archives, <b>Martin De Porres Center,</b> 2330 Airport Dr, Columbus, OH 43219 (<a href="https://martindeporrescenter.net/">Homepage - Martin de Porres Center</a>). Video: "How to find..."
<a href="https://youtu.be/3Day2LbSUzc">https://youtu.be/3Day2LbSUzc</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Food:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124"> Coffee/tea & light snacks will be offered at the start of the
meeting. Lunch will be brown bag. There is a nearby Dominican Sisters of Peace run café.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Cost: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">FREE! There is no fee for attending, but we will be accepting
small cash donations for the refreshment kitty. Thank you to the institutions who host us, our volunteer speakers, and program committee!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Agenda:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124"> (Note: slightly longer day to accommodate more in-depth
topic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;mso-ligatures:none">10:00am-10:30am: Welcome & Coffee Social (coffee/tea, and light snacks)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202124;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;mso-ligatures:none">10:35am-12:00pm: Presentation & discussion</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202124;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;mso-ligatures:none">12:00pm-12:10pm: Break/rearrange room<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202124;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;mso-ligatures:none">12:15pm-1:15pm: Brown bag lunch, announcements, and all attendee update. (At the end of our meeting, we will do our usual Round Robin where all attendees will have a chance to share what they
are working on, and ask digitization-related questions of the group.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202124;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;mso-ligatures:none">1:30pm-- : Optional: Tour: Brief tour of the Dominican Sisters of Peace Archive.
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Parking:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124"> Free. Attached to Martin De Porres Center. Video:
"How to find..." <a href="https://youtu.be/3Day2LbSUzc">https://youtu.be/3Day2LbSUzc</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">Tour: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124"> Brief tour of the Dominican Sisters of Peace Archive.
This will be OhioDIG's first visit to the archival space of the Dominican Sisters of Peace. Includes a short walk from the meeting space to the archives.
<a href="https://oppeace.org/">https://oppeace.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">About OhioDIG:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">The Ohio Digitization Interest Group is an informal discussion group open to all with an interest in cultural heritage digitization, description, access, and digital preservation.
<a href="https://ohiodig.org/">https://ohiodig.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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