2022-11-10 Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

Susan Paterson (Chair)
Corinne Chatnik (Vice-Chair)
Allison Fischbach (Secretary)
Mara Friedman (Student Member)

Absent:
Amanda Greenwood (Education Coordinator)

Agenda items:

News/Questions/Announcements:

  • Sarah Zimmerman leaving/Marketing and Communications Manager role
  • Next step recommendations from Felicia
  • Split duties Corinne and Allison

Action Item: Allison will share login information with Corinne
Action Item: meeting between Amanda, Allison, and Corinne to discuss communications

SAA 2023 program proposal (general information)

  • Details on the call for proposals, starting Nov. 15th ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2023: Call for Program Proposals | Society of American Archivists
  • SAA Google Spreadsheet Unofficial Program Suggestions and Connections.

General section business

Blog and Twitter

Blog: Web Archiving Section / 22/23 Blog Content Ideas

  • Amanda and Allison now have ability to post
  • Posting an introductory blog post?          

Action Item: Allison will post today

  • Corinne reached out to SUCHO: Preserving Ukraine’s Digital Cultural Heritage for a blog post
  • Amanda reached out to 3 web archiving scholars: Daniela Major (UK),  Daniel Gomes (Portugal), and Shereen Tay (from Nat. Lib.of Singapore) (all 3 are contributors to The Past Web) have agreed to write posts.
  • Action Item: Amanda will update publication schedule when she returns.
  • Question: Are there specific topics?
  • Action Item: Allison will create Blog Schedule Table on Content Ideas page

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WebArch_RT

  • Continuing with Twitter or move to a new platform?
  • Possibly Mastodon?
  • Wait and see what SAA/archival community decides
  • Posting
  • Events/ #WebArchivingWednesday/ retweets/ conferences/ tools
  • Use scheduler
  • Alternate weeks/months Action Items: Corinne will take first month
  • Brainstorm ideas!
  • Allison retrieved Twitter login information

Old/Continuing Business

Coffee Chats: 2022-2023 Coffee Chat Ideas

  • Hosting 2-3 this year.
  • Participation in Catholic University LIS Alumni virtual panel on building Digital Cultural Heritage Collections
  • Ian Milligan - December coffee chat
  • Dec. 6/7/8 at 10aPST / 1aEST
  • Action Item: Susan will email with potential dates
  • Link to bio: Ian Milligan | History | University of Waterloo (uwaterloo.ca)
  • Registration: Use Susan’s Zoom with registration feature
  • Brainstorm listservs/places to post to
  • Amanda emailed Julien Masanes
  • Collaboration with Description Group, maybe Caitlin Birch Caitlin Birch (@preserCAITion) / Twitter (BPE Presentation Description)

Annual Meeting Ideas

  • Annual meeting collaboration with Ellen Engseth (SAA International Archival Affairs) and Kim Hoffman (SAA Preservation Section) re: preserving Ukrainian web content
  • Possible groups to collaborate with or speakers to invite.
  • Action Item: Susan will contact section chairs

Adjourned: 10:55 PST / 1:55 EST