“But He’s Really Rich!” Selection, Appraisal and Fundraising Campaigns – SAA 2010 Annual Meeting Session 607

SAA 2010 Annual Meeting

S.607 “But He’s Really Rich!” Selection, Appraisal and Fundraising Campaigns

• Sean Quimby, Chair
• Meredith Evans Raiford
• Steven Mandeville-Gamble
• David Murray

Not on Google? It Doesn’t Exist: Findability and Search Engine Optimization for Archives – SAA 2010 Annual Meeting Session 502

SAA 2010 Annual Meeting

S.502  Not on Google? It Doesn’t Exist: Findability and Search Engine Optimization for Archives

• Jeanne Kramer-Smyth (Chair) Building Archives Websites That Google Will Love
• Matt Herbison Online Collections Crawlability for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
• Mark A. Matienzo Findability in the Flow: Discovery through Linking

SAA Annual Meeting Session 402 Archivist 2.0: Policies, Partnerships, Predictions and Possibilities

SAA Annual Meeting

S.402 Archivist 2.0: Policies, Partnerships, Predictions and Possibilities

Disclaimer (borrowed from David Weinberger): Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words.

1. Nan Rubin, Preserving Digital Public Television
2. Lisa Schmidt, It’s Different with Digital: Influencing Curation Policy When There is No Mandate to Curate
3. Joanne Kaczmarek, From Here to Infinity! The Future of Archives

SAA Annual Meeting Session 209 Archivist or Educator? Meet Your Institution’s Goals by Being Both

SAA Annual Meeting

S.209 Archivist or Educator? Meet Your Institution’s Goals by Being Both

Dorothy Dougherty  (Chair), Public Programs Specialist, National Archives and Records Administration
Mark E Harvey, State Archivist, State Archives of Michigan
Danna C. Bell-Russel, Educational Outreach Specialist, The Library of Congress
Julie Daniels, Coordinator of Educational Programs, New York State Archives

[Disclaimer (borrowed from David Weinberger): Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words.

There was an interesting discussion from three panelists, during which I took no notes.  Here are some notes from the Q&A]

SAA Research Forum Session 6: Formulating Community Practice

SAA Research Forum

August 10, 2010

Session 6: Formulating Community Practice

Moderator: Nancy Y. McGovern

Disclaimer (borrowed from David Weinberger): Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words.  This is a short post as I lost battery power midway through this final session, which was a shame as the last two presentations were both very good  and very interesting.

SAA Research Forum Session 5: Collection Management Tools and Practice

SAA Research Forum

August 10, 2010

Session 5: Collection Management Tools and Practice

Moderator: Ardys Kozbial

Disclaimer (borrowed from David Weinberger): Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words.

New Tools for the Preservation of Modern Digitally Printed Materials

Daniel Burge (Rochester Institute of Technology – Image Permanence Institute)

Preservation recommendations – all the technical papers are on the IPI website

Other resources: glossary, newsletter archive, recommended reading

DP3 Newsletter: quarterly update that also includes research findings, news and events

SAA Research Forum Session 3: Adapting Archival Practice

SAA Research Forum

August 10, 2010

Session 3: Adapting Archival Practice

Moderator: Ardys Kozbial

Disclaimer (borrowed from David Weinberger): Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words.

• Ann Holt (Pennsylvania State University)
• Corinne Rogers and Elizabeth Shaffer (University of British Columbia)
• Sam Meister (Digital Archive of the Birth of the Dot Com Era Project) and  David Kirsch (University of Maryland)
• Mary M. Manning (Texas A&M University) and Judy Silva (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
• Gordon Daines (Brigham Young University)
• Ken Thibodeau (National Archives and Records Administration)

SAA Research Forum Session 2: Distributed Digital Preservation

SAA Research Forum

August 10, 2010

Session 2: Distributed Digital Preservation

Moderator: Joanne Kaczmarek

Disclaimer (borrowed from David Weinberger): Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words.

Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS)

Richard Pearce-Moses (Clayton State University)

Research goals/questions

1. Curatorial rationale
2. Test middleware
3. Can we stop dealing with items and start dealing with chunks?
4. Evaluate LOCKSS as the basis of a storage network. It was designed for serials collected by many institutions.  Concerned about its capacity and performance
5. Build a community of shared practice that meets the needs of a wide range of repositories

SAA Research Forum Session 1: Archival Quality in Digital Preservation Repositories

SAA Research Forum

August 10, 2010

Session 1: Archival Quality in Digital Preservation Repositories

Paul Conway (University of Michigan)

Moderator: Joanne Kaczmarek

Disclaimer (borrowed from David Weinberger): Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words.

Archival quality is an archival value along with provenance and integrity

SAA Research Forum Keynote: “Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Economics of Sustaining Digital Information”

SAA Research Forum

August 10, 2010

Keynote: “Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Economics of Sustaining Digital Information”

Anne Van Camp,  BRTF Member

Moderator: Helen Tibbo

Disclaimer (borrowed from David Weinberger): Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words.

AVC was the only archivist member of the Task Force

Where the task force is now: concluded work in February 2010, trying to move the conversation from the BRTF to the broader community.

Trying to create a sense of urgency: “I worry about these groups that come together and do all this work” and then no one pays any attention.

4 topics:

1. Research data
2. Scholarly discourse
3. Collectively-produced web content (e.g., Wikipedia.  “We tried not to go there” but had to.)
4. Commercially-owned cultural content