Race to the Finish: Migrating Digital Collections to Digital Commons on a Deadline
Description
Hear about the Virginia Commonwealth University's experience and the successes and challenges that come when faced while migrating to Digital Commons, and consider how the platform can best support digital collections in the future.
Recommended Citation
Rogova, Irina, "Race to the Finish: Migrating Digital Collections to Digital Commons on a Deadline" (2024). Digital Commons Conferences. 7.
https://dc.researchcommons.org/dcnoamconf/2024/oct8/7
Race to the Finish: Migrating Digital Collections to Digital Commons on a Deadline
Hear about the Virginia Commonwealth University's experience and the successes and challenges that come when faced while migrating to Digital Commons, and consider how the platform can best support digital collections in the future.
Speaker Details
Irina Rogova (she/her) is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University. Rogova’s areas of expertise include digitization of archival materials, creating inclusive and anti-racist descriptive metadata, working with students to expand digital collections, and developing community-centered digital archival projects including oral histories. She previously worked as the Digital Resources Archivist at Kansas State University, and as the Project Archivist for the Race & Racism at the University of Richmond Project. Rogova has an MS from Simmons College (now Simmons University), and a BA in Historical Studies from Bard College. She has presented work at regional and national conferences including the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Annual Meeting and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference, and is a member of the Abolition in Special Collections subgroup of the Abolitionist Library Association.