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Join the Collection Management Section for a spring webinar panel on April 28, 2025 from 3:00-4:30 pm Eastern. This panel will feature presentations on setting strategic priorities and decision-making for collection management with a focus on tools and workflows.
Steven Gentry of the University of Michigan, will present a weighted scoring model that informs processing prioritization. He will talk about the project’s inception, an overview of the model, its various...
Heads up for anyone with an interest in video game preservation: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is seeking an exemption to the Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies (17 USC §1201(a)(1)). The exemption is proposed for users who want to modify “videogames that are no longer supported by the developer, and that require communication with a server,” in order to serve player communities who want to keep maintain the functionality of...
The Business Archives Section is opening a position for an Early Career Member on the section steering committee. This position is intended for individuals starting out in the field to have an opportunity to be mentored by section leaders, and expand their leadership skills and resources. Immediate responsibilities will include supporting the Newsletter, the Quarterly Conference Calls, and the Education Director, but may be tailored to individual interests. This position is open to students and...
Detail illustration from the 200 East 42nd Street marketing brochure, 1958. Illustration features the front entrance of the building, located on 42nd Street and Third Avenue. Durst Archives.
By Ryan Donaldson, Senior Manager of Heritage and Information Services
Founded in 1915, The Durst Organization (“Durst”) is a family-run business dedicated to the principles of innovation, integrity, community, and sustainability. Durst develops, builds, owns, and manages premier office towers and...
The results of the special election are in: we are pleased to welcome Adriana Flores as the new SNAP committee Secretary! We would like to thank the candidates and all those who voted for their participation.
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is responsible for the ongoing maintenance of EAD and EAC-CPF as well as the development of future companion standards, such as Encoded Archival Context for Functions.
We are seeking self-nominations from the archival community to join TS-EAS. We are seeking to fill one international and two SAA based vacancies in TS-EAS during the fall of 2024. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications.
Anyone...
The Webinar was hosted by Rachael Woody of Rachael Cristine Consulting LLC. Rachael discussed how she set up her business, reviewed business and financial logistics, revealed how to select an appropriate consulting rate, and offered her tips and tricks for successfully entering the consulting world.
Rachael presented for about 45 minutes and then answer questions from the audience. If you have a question you’d like to ask Rachael, connect directly at 503-922-3402, consulting@rachaelcristine.com...
Nominee for Communications Manager (1-year term)
Brenna Edwards, Manager for Digital Archives, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Having served in multiple roles on several Society of American Archivists sections, I am interested in the Communications Manager position with the Web Archiving Section steering committee because coordinating communications in a timely manner is the key to having successful events and section health. My knowledge of figuring out the right time...
If you weren't at SAA you might have missed the presentation about the Helen Keller Archive digitization project and the important project to make it more accessible. Check out this post with session highlights at the American Foundation for the Blind blog.
Look out for more SAA content coming up on the Human Rights Archives Section blog!
2025 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Independent Archivists election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
Chair (2 year commitment, 1 year as Chair, 1 year as Immediate Past Chair)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (3 year commitment, 1 year as Vice-Chair, 1 year as Chair, 1 year as Immediate Past Chair)
1 Member-At...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, is excited to share the recordings of two webinars held in November 2022 that introduce the new version of the EAC-CPF standard.
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) is an international standard maintained by SAA for encoding contextual information about persons, corporate bodies, and families related to...
Just a reminder to join SAA's Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) for an open session on the ongoing major revision of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
After a general introduction on the timeline and overarching topics of the revision process, we will have a closer look at EAD's relationshio to Records in Contexts (RiC) as well as presenting some discussion points hot of the press from the EAD sub-team meeting of the days before.
With this open session, we...
The Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section is seeking candidates for three positions:
One co-chair for a two-year term (2023-2025) -- first year as junior co-chair and second year as senior co-chair
Two Steering Committee members for a two-year term (2023-2025)
We welcome early career candidates, as well as more seasoned archivists, including those who have held EAS Section leadership positions in the past. The time commitment for Steering Committee members is roughly 2-5 hours per month,...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Justin Kovar is the Audio and Moving Image Archivist for the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin and has been at the Center since 2011. Previous to that he was a Graduate Research Assistant for the University's Historical Music Recordings Collections and intern for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Justin earned his MSIS Degree from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, and is an ACA certified...
Dear EAD and EAC-CPF users,
On behalf of SAA’s Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) we are pleased to announce the minor releases of the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 and the EAD3 1.1.2 Tag Libraries as well as an update to the Schematron files that are available for extended validation of EAC-CPF 2.0 and EAD3 XML files.
What’s new in the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 Tag Library?
This minor revision to the Tag Library covers a typographical error in @targetType (see issue #111) and adaptation of...
Visit the PLASC Blog, The Finding Aid, to read a new post about establishing a digitization memory lab at Midwest Genealogy Center at the Mid-Continent Public Library!
The Memory Lab is a tool that democratizes access to the equipment and knowledge needed to archive personal collections at no cost.
Read the full Story: Demystifying DIY Digitization - An inside look at the public library memory lab
Links Below!
Dear members of the Encoded Archival Standards community,
TS EAS is seeking to fill two international and two SAA based vacancies in TS EAS during the fall of 2021. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications. There might be an on-line call performed after we have gone through the applications.
TS EAS meets four times a year (committee members must attend at least two of these) and also has smaller teams working with specific tasks like the maintenance of the...
Samantha Bradbeer, Archivist and Historian, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Samantha Bradbeer spends her days at Hallmark making sure that an accurate and varied record of company, family, and product history is preserved for future generations.
As the company archivist and historian, Bradbeer oversees the preservation of advertisements, audio visual materials, chromolithographs, company records, greeting cards and other products, original artwork, postcards, progressive proof books, rare books, prints...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates standing in the 2024 Business Archives Section (BAS) election. Please take some time to review their statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for one candidate for each of the following positions:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, three-year term
Secretary, one-year term
Vice Editor/Editor-Elect, two-year term
Education Chair, one-year term
Member-at-Large, one-year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff;...
A recording of the open session on EAD revision hosted by the SAA Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) in now available on the SAA YouTube channel. The meeting was held in conjunction with the annual meeting in Washington, DC on July 26, and provided an opportunity gathering feedback from the community about the ongoing development of the standard. It also included an update on the development of Records in Contexts (RiC), and its potential impact on the EAD standard....
This report examines the encryption that protects meetings in the popular Zoom teleconference app. We find that Zoom has “rolled their own” encryption scheme, which has significant weaknesses. In addition, we identify potential areas of concern in Zoom’s infrastructure, including observing the transmission of meeting encryption keys through China.
Read more here.
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) wishes you all a happy new year and hopes you have had a good start into 2022!
Tapping into the spirit of new starts, we would like to pick up on the call for comments to improve the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) that we initiated at the end of last year. TS-EAS wants to hear from you in more detail what you are missing in the current version of EAD and what you would like to see in a future version of the standard. We...
Many thanks to all of our excellent candidates for putting themselves forward in this election cycle. Please read and consider their statements carefully before submitting your votes.
The positions up for election this cycle are:
Vice Chair / Chair Elect for a 2-year term (1 position)
Steering Committee Member / Member-at-Large with 1-year terms (3 positions)
Secretary with 1-year term (1 position)
SAA will be sending the ballots out to all members via Survey Monkey, so watch your inbox and...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards is pleased to release Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, Families (EAC-CPF) 2.0, a draft updated version of the standard for public review and comment. To ensure the greatest possible input from EAC-CPF users around the world, the subcommittee is calling for comments on the proposed changes to the current version, EAC-CPF 2010. The deadline for comments on the change proposals is June 30, 2021.
The process for a major...
Read candidate statements for the 2024-2025 election.
