Society of American Archivists

Session 107: What Happens After “Here Comes Everybody”: An Examination of Participatory Archives” The first presenter and author of ArchivesNext blog, Kate Theimer, shared with us her thoughts surrounding the creation of a new definition of participatory archives that focuses on the on-line environment as the epicenter of collaboration between community members, archivists and scholars. […]

Scott Simon, from the NPR show: Weekend Edition delivered the keynote address Thursday morning. His talk centered around his recent experiences with the book. While reading his notes from an iPad- no stranger to technology here- Simon shared the pleasures he and his family experiences reading together the classic Pinocchio that they bought at Treehorn […]

Wednesday Round Table Discussions Metadata and Digital Object Round table During this session, the four presenters shared experiences creating metadata for digital objects during the course of specific projects. The first presenter, Peter Chen “Using Forensic Evidence to Assign Metadata to Born Digital Archives” addressed his use of Quick View Plus and Access Data FTK […]

It’s that time of year again– Society of American Archivist’s annual conference, held this year in Chicago, Illinois. I’ll be blogging session summaries while I’m there- Wednesday August 24- Saturday August 27th. Here is a list of sessions I plan to attend: Women’s Collections Roundtable: WCRT hosts a panel discussing women’s collections, diversity, and activism […]

For my last session of SAA 2010 I chose to attend A Flickr of Hope: Harvesting Social Networking Sites. Lori Donovan spoke and represented Internet Archive that launched Archive-It. Beginning as a digital library in 1996, Internet Archive is now the biggest digital repository with over 4.5 PETABYTES of information. By using Archive-It one of […]

This morning I attended the session: Not on Google? It Doesn’t Exist: Findability and Search Engine Optimization for Archives. Jeanne Kramer- Smyth kicked off the session with a very coherent presentation that included 4 key components to make sure that users when searching through Google or another search engine can find you archival materials: When […]

This morning I attended “Beyond the Ivy Tower: Archival Collaboration, Community Partnerships, and Access Issues in Building Women’s Collections.” L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin of the University of Delaware presented on the oral history project that she and other staff have worked on to document the experiences of local Latina women. Through a capstone course in […]

Last night I attended the Archivists in the Movies event and in addition to being an entertaining collection of movie clips from the past 60 years presented by Leith Johnson including the Bourne Supremecy and the 2nd National Treasure movie- I was also struck by the re-occurring nature of the roles archivists and archives seem […]