Here is an outline with links of the sessions I attended at COSA, NAGARA, SAA joint meeting Archives*Records 2018 in Washington, DC. This is mostly for my reference but available for others if they find it useful.
August 14th
Archive-It Partner Meeting (blog, presentations)
- Welcome and Archive-It updates by Jefferson Bailey, Director, Web Archiving Programs, Internet Archive
- Implementation of OCLC Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for Web Archives – Liam Sullivan, Harvard Business School
- Development of a Metadata Application Profile for Web Archives – Lauren Work, University of Virginia Library
- Exporting Data from the Partner Data API – Greg Wiedeman, University at Albany, SUNY
- Breakout Groups
- Cobweb: Developing a Prototype Platform for Collaborative Collection Development for Web Archives – Kathryn Stine, California Digital Library
- Collaboration Collection Development for Web Archives: https://www.cdlib.org/services/cobweb/
- Django site for the Cobweb registry of web archiving projects and collections: https://t.co/czWhFKQ7vM
- Efforts of the Federal Web Archiving Working Group (FWAWG) – Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Brandon Hirsch, National Archives and Records Administration and Christie Moffatt, National Library of Medicine
August 16th
- 102 – True Confessions: Paying Off the Technical Debt of Early Digital Projects
- A Conversation with Archivist of the United States David Ferriero
- NARA – plan to transition to digital records only by 2022
- Archives Sleepover (AOTUS makes pancakes)
- 209 – More Cooks and a Renovated Kitchen: Developing a Centralized Collaborative Approach to Accessioning
- Related documents: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YTbhciySvcD3hEIB7vJeXvpk6v9a-p9p
- 302 – Too Big to Fail: Processing Large-Scale Collections
- Newberry Library links to finding aid, processing blog, and web exhibit: https://newberry.org/cbq-building-empire
- Umbrella finding aid links to series-level finding aids: https://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/CBQ_Main.xml
- Newberry Library links to finding aid, processing blog, and web exhibit: https://newberry.org/cbq-building-empire
August 17th
- 401 – My Favorite Mistake: Confessions of an Imperfect Archivist
- 507 – Digitization is/not preservation
- Digitization is the first step in a constant unending commitment: https://twitter.com/Poindextrix/status/1030518709570478080
- Who Cares? https://twitter.com/snowdenbecker/status/1030523473314177024
- Memory Lab: https://www.dclibrary.org/labs/memorylab
August 18th
- 601 – Prioritizing Processing When Everything Is A Priority [RIM]
- Article forthcoming in Journal of Archival Organization
- 707 – Dinosaur Footprints: Archiving and Preservation in the Anthropocene
- Arctic World Archive: https://www.piql.com/arctic-world-archive/
- American archives and climate change: Risks and adaptation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096318300135
- Climate Heritage Mobilization: https://t.co/N145VaUsD0