8am on Saturday morning, and those hardy souls who have not yet fled to beat Hurricane Irene home or who are stranded in Chicago, plus other assorted insomniacs, were presented with a veritable smörgåsbord of digital preservation goodness. The programme has many of the digital sessions scheduled at the same time, and today I decided [...]
Archive for August, 2011
#SAA11, Saturday 27th August
Posted in Conferences, Operational Digital Archives, Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged #SAA11, digital archives, digital preservation, facebook, SAA, Twitter, USA, user generated content on 27 August 2011 | 1 Comment »
#SAA11, Friday 26th August
Posted in Conferences, Operational Digital Archives, tagged #SAA11, description, digital archives, digital preservation, SAA, USA on 27 August 2011 | 1 Comment »
Friday had a bit of a digital theme for me, beginning with a packed, standing-room-only session 302, Practical Approaches to Born-Digital Records: What Works Today. After a witty introduction by Chris Prom about his Fulbright research in Dundee, a series of speakers introduced their digital preservation work, with a real emphasis on ‘you too can [...]
#SAA11, Thursday 25th August
Posted in Conferences, Preservation Tools, tagged #SAA11, copyright, credibility, motivation, participation, preservation tools, SAA, trust, USA, user generated content, visualization on 26 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Day 1 Proper of the conference began with acknowledgements to the organisers, some kind of raffle draw and then a plenary address by an American radio journalist. Altogether this conference has a celebratory feel to it – fitting since this is SAA’s 75th Anniversary year, but very different in tone from the UK conferences where [...]
#SAA11, Wednesday 24th August
Posted in Conferences, tagged SAA, USA on 26 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A meeting connected to my research for me, followed by a little sight-seeing as I was not involved in any of the day’s events. It’s interesting to compare how SAA organises their annual meeting, in comparison to the much smaller ARA event. On the days running up to the main conference, SAA arranges a series [...]
Summer Summary
Posted in Conferences, PhD Research, tagged AERI, archives, collaboration, data analysis, funding, indexing, Interface, Netherlands, transcription, USA, user-centred design, users, VeleHanden on 21 August 2011 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a busy summer for me – lots of stimulating conferences and events. Here’s my (eclectic) roundup of highlights: No.1 spot has to go to the fabulous VeleHanden project, a collaborative digitisation and crowdsourcing project initiated by Amsterdam City Archives, with numerous archival partners from all over the Netherlands. I was lucky enough to [...]
