Annual Section Meeting 2011

The College and University Archives Section meeting was be held in Chicago on August 25 from 3:30-5:30.  The full agenda is in the PDF document below.  In addition to the normal reports and announcements, we heard two presentations from fellow members. 

OpenCasa: Building Partnerships for an Electronic Records Repository

Jackie Esposito, University Archivist and Michelle Belden, Access Archivist, Penn State University

Esposito and Belden discussed the development of the Curation Architecture Prototype Services (CAPS) model at Penn State. The presentation reviewed the project timeline, key roles and partnerships to develop the architecture, use cases, stakeholders input, agile development methodology, user requirements, dashboard interface, and public interface for curated collections. OpenCasa is an architectural model that will support DPubS, ETDs,  ContentDM, Olive Digital Newspapers, and the University's Electronic Business records Lion's Lair. The architecture is based on integrating a suite of microservices as needed for each use application.

Laying the Tracks for Electronic Records at an Undergraduate Liberal Arts College

Jennifer Gunter King, Head of Archives And Special Collections at Mount Holyoke College discussed how with NHPRC funding, Mount Holyoke College has established basic workflows and procedures for archiving electronic records from four campus offices.  The project utilizes tools that include Duke University’s Data Accessioner, the Archivists Toolkit, a digital preservation system, and Dspace.

Both PowerPoint presentations are available below as PDF documents.