SAA Web Archiving Section Meeting Minutes
2017.12.05
Present: Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Chair; Alexis Antracoli, Vice Chair / Chair-elect; Nikki Thomas, Secretary; Kevin Miller, Web Liaison; Becky Schulte, Education Coordinator
Section business
- Kevin updated microsite to reflect newly amended Standing Rules
- Change in appointment times:
- Becky suggesting Education Coordinator have 2 year appointment
- Alexis volunteers to do some research & fact-finding re: other sections in order to try to make a decision by the end of the year (Nikki will share unpopulated spreadsheet )
- Tragedy Response Initiative Task Force discussion
- Karl put call out to try to have someone on task force with web archiving experience
- Education discussion
- Web Archiving workshop similar to one done (in-person by Karl) at Art Libraries conference & again at Digital POWRR Institute
- Discussion of ideas re: developing on online toolkit, etc
- Is this in line with SAA Education program?
- Online landing page for workshop documentation (GitHub) and sharing of resources (unofficially managed)
- Karl can build “pilot” for just WARSEC to review & potentially approve at January 2018 meeting
- Documenting the Now Symposium (December 11-12, 2017)
- Potentially combine forces for a webinar about the project (summary & outcomes (tools)
- Karl attending - will find out what DocNow already has planned
- If received positively, Becky will work with Karl to begin collaborative discussion
- Keep thinking of spring webinar &/or annual SAA conference meeting
- Potential collaborators?
- Ideas: Ethics of web archiving; preserving online journalism
Communications
- Kevin looking at microsites for other sections re: layout & how used
- Will try to populate microsite with more info & fix dead links
- Sam looking for general feedback on round-up
- Karl commented on amount of content that can be included
Next meeting: Tuesday, January 16 th, 2018 2 pm EST / 11 am PST
