SILS Ph.D. student Mary Ruvane helps participants work through a metadata practical in the SILS computer lab.

Participants came from across the country to learn how to improve public access to cultural heritage collections.

Rose Schooff, web developer at the Library of Virginia, has had previous experience with digitization and will be restarting a digital program there.

Instructor Ian Anderson helps Lisa Chen, webmaster at the University of Rhode Island, work through a metadata practical.

Thirty cultural heritage professionals attended the week-long conference.

DCHP participants and instructors stand on the steps of Manning Hall.

Ruvane helps Sharon Hughes, an education coordinator at the Danville (Va.) Museum of Fine Arts and History with the metadata practical.