SAA Web Archiving Steering Committee
Agenda and Minutes

September 19, 2023
1p EST

Present: 

Corinne Chatnik
Kristi Mukk
Amanda Greenwood
Lizzy Zarate
Allison Fischbach

Absent: 

Hope Dunbar

Welcome and Introductions

Chair - Corinne Chatnik

Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian, Union College

Vice-Chair - Hope Dunbar

Secretary - Allison Fischbach

Digital Archivist, Johns Hopkins Medical Archives

Education Coordinator - Amanda Greenwood

Independent Archivist/Consultant (previously of Union College)

Communications - Kristi Mukk

Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Libraries

Student Member - Lizzy Zarate

Archives and Public History student, NYU; Web Archives Student Assistant, NYU

Contact Information and Drive Access

Brief summary of WAS activities during 2022-2023 

• https://webarchivingrt.wordpress.com/

The Web Archiving Section hosted a joint meeting with the Preservation and International Archival Affairs sections on June 20th, 2023. 

The meeting featured speakers from Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO).

Summary of Activities:

Coffee Chat no. 1: “Research Use of Web Archives”
Speaker: Dr. Ian Milligan,  professor of history and Associate Vice-President, Research Oversight and Analysis at the University of Waterloo (150 registrants)

Coffee Chat no. 2: “The Rise of Collaboration Spaces at Work and the Challenges for Archivists”
Speaker: Julien Masanès, CEO of Hanzo Archives (121 registrants)

SAA Annual Meeting Informal Virtual Conversation Lounge: July 27 from 5:30pm-6:30pm to discuss the real-life trauma impacts of collecting web archives.

Outreach Statistics:

• 7 blog posts from November 2022-May 2023

• 3 international guest bloggers

• 782 blog views from August 2022-June 2023

• 30 tweets between November 2022-May 2023 with over 6,500 views

• 75 likes

• 50 retweets

Roles and Responsibilities

Chair - Corinne Chatnik

Vice-Chair - Hope Dunbar

Secretary - Allison Fischbach

Education Coordinator - Amanda Greenwood

Communications - Kristi Mukk

Student Member - Lizzy Zarate

New Skills: outreach, planning events, recruiting blog posts

Positions Described on the Microsite: Standing Rules | Society of American Archivists

Outreach Ideas:

Recruitment for blog posts

• Post a Welcome to the New Committee

• Goal: post once a month, but not a hard standard

• Guidelines for WAS Bloggers document is under WAS Drive > Blog

• Idea: Focus on student work and new professionals in web archiving

• Idea: Focus on web archives description (possibly related to reparative description)

Recruitment for Coffee Chats

• Corinne shared Coffee Chat runsheet checklist 

• Idea: Greg Wiedman and Email Archiving

• Idea: Ed Sommers and Web Archiving Appraisal 

Social Media Strategy

• Past Social Media Strategy: 

  • Participated in #WebArchiveWednesdays

  • Re-tweet and following/boosting other web archivists 

  • Tweetdeck for scheduling posts (Twitter/X paywalled this feature recently) 

  • Promote yourself/ what members of the committee are doing

• Twitter/X still viable?

• Alternative space?

  • Slack - internal to committee and open channels

    • Does SAA have an official Slack?

  • BlueSky

  • Threads/Instagram

Meeting Time: 

• Third Wednesday of the month, 1pm EST

Next Meeting:

• Coffee Chat, bring your ideas

• Blog Post, bring your ideas

• Action Item: Allison will share information for new Gmail/Drive account

• Action Item: Corinne will email liaison about Slack access

• Action Item: Allison will share a draft ‘cold email’ blog request

Adjourned: 1:58p EST