Archives*Records 2018: My Notes

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 14^th

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
  • Show and Tell
  • Collaborative Web Archiving
  • Describing Web Archives
  • Government Web Archiving
• 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 16^th

• 102 – True Confessions: Paying Off the Technical Debt of Early Digital Projects
  • Slides
• 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

August 17^th

• 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 18^th

• 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