Reports & Presentations from the Annual Meeting

2024

Virtual Annual Business Meeting slides

2023

Virtual Annual Business Meeting slides

Virtual Annual Business Meeting recording

2021

Virtual Annual Business Meeting 

At the Description Section business meeting, leadership shared election results and provided updates on the section’s ongoing projects including the blog, the Section’s portal of descriptive resources, and revisions to the Section’s Standing Rules. In addition, representatives from the Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS) and Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) provided updates on their ongoing work.

We then hosted a series of lightning talks highlighting the work and perspective of other SAA sections on the topic of inclusive and reparative description, followed by Q&A.

Lightning Talk Speakers

• Rose Buchanan (Chair) and Diana Marsh (Vice Chair) - Native American Archives Section
• Michelle Ganz (Chair) - Accessibility and Disability Section
• Conor Casey (Immediate Past Chair) - Labor Archives Section
• Chloe Pfendler (Co-Chair) and Anna Holland (Vice Co-Chair) - Women's Collections Section

Virtual Annual Business Meeting slides

Virtual Annual Business Meeting recording

2020

Virtual Annual Business Meeting slides

• Welcome from outgoing Description Section Chair (Cyndi Shein)
• Description Section Documentation Portal (Scott Kirycki, Web Liaison)
• Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard [TS-DACS] (Sue Luftschein & Dan Michelson)
• Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards [TS-EAS] (Mark Custer)
• Social Networks and Archival Context [SNAC] (Jerry Simmons)
• Agenda from incoming Description Section Chair (Katie Duvall)

2019

Presentation:

• Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards [TS-EAS] presented by Karin Bredenberg 

2018

 Presentations:

• When Archives Have Artifacts: 250+ Objects/100+ Years of AP History. Describe That! presented by Sarit S. Hand and Francesca Pitaro. 
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  • Presentation Slides and Notes

2017

 Presentations:

• Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving: Recommendations of the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group presented by Alexis Antracoli, Kate Bowers, Jackie Dooley
• PIAAF - Pilot for Interoperable Archival Authorities in France: From Several Datasets to One Graph presented by Anila Angjeli

2016

Presentations:

• Towards a Framework for Linked Rare Materials Metadata: An Overview of the Task Force to Explore Data Elements for Rare Materials Description presented by Allison Jai O’Dell
• From Several Datasets to One Graph: Designing a Prototype for a Graph Visualization of Archival Metadata from Different Institutions presented by Anila Angjeli

2015

Presentations:

• An update on Swedish Common Specifications FGS:er presented by Karin Bredenberg 
• Fitting in Functions: Functions in Archival Description presented by Katherine M. Wisser and Anila Angjeli

2014

Presentation: eARD: An E-Archive and E-Records Management Project in Sweden presented by Karin Bredenberg

2012

Reports: Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (DCRM-MSS), submitted by Diane Ducharme.

Presentations (lightning talks): 

• Forget About the Backlog: Surfacing Accessions Using Archivists' Toolkit by Audra Eagle Yun.
• The Visual History Archives (VHA): Access Through Indexing by Donna D. Casey. 
• Putting Library Data into Wikipedia by Merrilee Proffitt.
• Case Study on Collaborating with a Researcher to Describe an Unprocessed Collection by Ruth Bryan.
• Crowd-Sourcing Tags and Transciprtions for Use in AT Searching by Martha Bace.
• FRBR and Archival Description by Jinfang Niu.
• Disruptive Components: Reimagining Archival Access Systems at the Princeton University Library by Regine Heberlein.
• We put our "Stuff" on the Web, Did Anybody Notice? Google Analytics for Archives by Michelle Belden.

2011

Reports: SAA Committees, Liaisons, and Related Groups

Presentation: Digitization and EAD at the JFK: A Marriage of Opportunity by Erica Boudreau.

2010

Reports: SAA Committees, Liaisons, and Related Groups

Presentation: User Feedback and Cost/Value Analysis of Metadata Creation by Joyce Chapman.

2009

Reports: SAA Committees, Liaisons, and Related Groups

2008

Reports: SAA Committees, Liaisons, and Related Groups

2007

Reports: SAA Committees, Liaisons, and Related Groups

Presentations: EAC Overview by Katherine M. Wisser & EAC by Dennis Meissner & EAC Implementation in North Carolina by Peter Hymas

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