ARCHIVES 2017: 510 - Archives Vaporware: Archivists' Be...

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510 - Archives Vaporware: Archivists' Best Ideas for Software that Hasn't Been Made Yet

"This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature." (Don DeLillo) A panel of archivists and technologists pitch archival technologies that probably won't (and usually shouldn't) ever be built. This is as close to WWDC as SAA gets?.

Chair

Maureen Callahan

Sophia Smith Collection Archivist, Smith College

Maureen Callahan is the steward for the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History at Smith College, where she provides collection development, instruction, and stewardship for records of people changing the world on behalf of women and other gender minorities.

Speakers

Fletcher B. Durant

Librarian (Preservation), Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Fletcher Durant is the Preservation Librarian at the University of Florida Smathers Libraries. His work focuses on the preventive conservation of library and archival materials, the sustainability of cultural heritage, and risk management. He is a trained book and paper conservator... Read More →

Meghan Lyon

Duke University

I am the Section Head for Manuscripts Processing at Duke's David M. Rubenstein Rare Books and Manuscript Library, where I have worked as an assistant, archivist, and now supervisory archivist in the Technical Services Dept. I have an MSI from the University of Michigan and an MA from... Read More →

Amy Rudersdorf

Senior Consultant, AVPreserve

Data management, AV preservation, requirements development for technology procurement, data migration

Michael Rush

Assistant Head of the Manuscript Unit, Yale University

Mike Rush is an Assistant Head of the Manuscript Unit at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. He manages the accessioning and processing of manuscript acquisitions. From 2010 to 2015 he led the development of EAD3 as co-chair of TS-EAD.

Rachel Searcy

Accessioning Archivist, New York University

Rachel Searcy is Accessioning Archivist and ArchivesSpace administrator at NYU. She holds an MA in History and an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, as well as a BA in English and History and a Certificate in Celtic Studies from the University of Wisconsi... Read More →

Heather Stecklein

UW-Stout Archives and Area Research Center

Heather J. Stecklein is the Director of the UW-Stout Archives and Area Research Center in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Her most recent campus initiatives have focused heavily on preservation of born digital collections and expanding the university's primary source instruction program... Read More →

Ruth K. Tillman

Digital Collections Librarian, University of Notre Dame

Member of Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards. Co-facilitator of DLF Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Soon to be working on linked data, metadata reuse, and cataloging standards at Penn State University Libraries. Probably carrying... Read More →