DAS Subcommittee

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Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Subcommittee

Reports to: Committee on Education

The Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Subcommittee is responsible for ensuring that the Digital Archives Specialist curriculum remains up-to-date.  Because the curriculum is likely to require frequent changes, the Subcommittee suggests and implements changes to the curriculum (including the examinations) as needed. In addition, the Subcommittee is responsible for ensuring the currency of the core competencies for a DAS certificate, overseeing the learning outcomes to ensure that they support the core competencies, and supporting the development of new courses.

For detailed information about committee selection, size, and length of terms; reporting procedures; duties and responsibilities; and meetings, see the SAA Governance Manual.

For information about the DAS program, including curriculum structure, courses, and exams, visit the program page.

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General Resources

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Course Content: Foundational

Foundational Courses focus on the essential skills that archivists need to manage digital archives. They focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the needs of practitioners—archivists who are or will be working directly with electronic records. These courses present information that an archivist might implement in the next year.

F2: Basics of Managing Digital Records [Webcast]

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation
Reviews and Audits

F3: Thinking Digital [Webcast]

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

F4: Standards for Digital Archives [Webcast]

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

F5: Metadata Overview for Archivists [Webcast]

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation
Bibliography

F7: Digital Curation: Fundamentals for Success

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation
Pre-Readings
Bibliography

F8: Arrangement and Description of Electronic Records - Part I

Course Description
Agenda and Pre-Readings
Workbook (Slides and Biblio)

F9: Digital Forensics: Fundamentals

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation
Bibliography

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F:10: Introduction to Processing Digital Records and Manuscripts [DAS]

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

Course Content: Tactical and Strategic

Tactical and Strategic Courses focus on the skills that archivists need to make significant changes in their organizations so that they can develop a digital archives and work seriously on managing electronic records. They focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the needs of managers--those archivists who manage other professionals and who oversee programmatic operations. These courses present information that an archivist might implement in the next five years.

TST1: Digital Records - The Next Step! [Webcast]

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

TST3: Arrangement and Description of Electronic Records - Part II

Course Description
Pre-Readings/Agenda
Workbook

TST6a: Copyright Issues for Digital Archives

Course Description
Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation — Briston
PowerPoint Presentation— Dryden
Bibliography
Other course documents

TST6b: Privacy and Confidentiality in Digital Archives

Course Description
Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation
Back of the Book

Old materials

Case Studies
Workbook Contents (old)

TST10: Building Advocacy and Support for Digital Archives

Course Description
Overview/Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation
Pre-Readings

Course Content: Tools and Services

Tools and Services courses focus on specific tools and services that archivists need to use for their work with digital archives. They are practical courses focused on specific software products and other tools and they focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the needs of practitioner archivists. These courses present information that an archivist could implement immediately.

T&S2: Archival Collections Management Systems [Webcast]

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

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T&S4: Preservation Formats in the Context of PDF [Webcast]

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation
Reviews/Audits

T&S5: Web Archiving Fundamentals

Course Description

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T&S7: Digital Preservation of Audio and Video: Fundamentals

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

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Course Content: Transformational

Transformational Courses focus on the skills that archivists need to change their working lives dramatically and transform their institutions into full-fledged digital archives.  They focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the needs of administrators—those archivists with oversight over the entire archival enterprise of an institution.  These courses present information that an archivist might implement over the course of the next ten years.

TR1: User Experience Design and Digital Archives [Webcast]

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

TR4: Curating Research Assets and Data using Lifecycle Education

This course has been retired.

Course Description
Agenda
PowerPoint1
PowerPoint2
PowerPoint3
Bibliography

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Conference Call Minutes: January 2014

DAS Exams

Due to the confidential nature of our DAS Exams, we are managing the exams and their revisions using a secured account on Google Drive. To access the DAS Exam for any DAS course or webinar, please follow the link below (you must be logged into Google Drive using your SAA-approved email address).

SAA DAS Education Exam Portal