The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is pleased to announce the publication of the first post in a collaborative series on the current EAD revision process.
In "Shape the Future of EAD: A Call to Action – Part I," published in the Description Section's online newsletter, we provide updates about the ongoing revision of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and examine why the EAD standard needs revision and provide an insight into the revision process.
The second...
ARCS has launched a Facebook page, in order to promote the work of Section members and religious archives in general. You can view the site without having a Facebook account; an account is required to "Like", "Share" or post comments. Address is www.facebook.com/saa.arcs/
If you have questions or comments, send them to any of the Facebook administrators:Carole Prietto (Daughters of Charity) - Carole.Prietto@doc.orgAngelique Richardson (Archdiocese of Atlanta) arichardson@archatl.orgRyan Lee...
Chapter 1: How Khmer Rouge Came to Power
With the support of the European Union and Rei Foundation Limited, Bophana Center is currently developing a smart-device application for learning Khmer Rouge history. In line with this project, Bophana Center launches a series of thematic panel discussions about Khmer Rouge history and its education with special guests.
The first edition will be dedicated to the theme of "How the Khmer Rouge came to power" which constitutes the first chapter of...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is pleased to release the second draft of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 4.0 for public review and comment.
This version includes additionally proposed changes based on suggestions and comments received from the community during the first call for comments, which ran between April and July 2024. The subcommittee would like to thank those who contributed to the review with their comments and invites all EAD users around the...
A Talk by Dr Jennifer Douglas, University of British Columbia
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025, 10am PST (1pm EST; 6pm GMT)
Online - Recording of Presentation (YouTube)
AbstractTamarin Norwood is a writer, a life writing scholar, and a bereaved mother. In an award-winning essay published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, Norwood reflects on the care she received in hospital after the death of her newborn son and introduces the notion of institutional love. Referring to how nurses...
Submissions are invited for the Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources series sponsored by the Reference, Access, and Outreach (RAO) Section of SAA. This open-ended series of case studies is designed to illustrate the application of the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy. To date, seventeen case studies have been published since December 2017, covering many of the objectives from the Guidelines. While submissions addressing any of the objectives are encouraged, we are particularly...
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...
On International Roma Day, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomes efforts in Congress and in US embassies around the world to recognize the genocide against Europe’s Roma at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators, to honor the Romani community and culture, and express concern about continuing violence directed against Romani populations.
In light of the history of the persecution of Roma, which culminated during the Holocaust when at least 250,000 Roma were targeted and...
A recording of the annual meeting of the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAS) is now available to the community on SAA’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcl1AzCciZs. The meeting provides an overview of work from the 2023-2024 term, including a review of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) revision process as well as work on associated standards. Additional updates about these standards revisions are expected in the coming months, and will be...
Louisville Underground Music Archive Project Oral HistoriesHeather Fox, Archivist for Manuscript Collections and Co-Director of the Oral History Center, University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky has a rich musical heritage, including an underground scene that influenced the sound of not only punk, indie, and hardcore, but also popular music regionally, nationally and internationally. In 2013, after the loss of several members of this scene, archivists in the University of...
It’s time to Vote! Please take a moment to vote for the 2025-2026 PLASC section Steering Committee!
Ballot link: https://mysaa.archivists.org/myballots
Ballots will remain open for 3 weeks, closing on Tuesday, July 15th.
You will be voting for:
- One Co-Chair, for a two year term
- One Secretary, for a one year term
2025 - 2026 Cadidates
Nazelie Doghramadjian
Secretary
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan School of Information
Bio
Nazelie Doghramadjian is a doctoral candidate at the...
Reconciliation is rewriting Canada's memory banks as archivists across the country work to make their collections more open to and sensitive towards Indigenous people.
Library and Archives Canada is leading the way with a $12-million project to hire Aboriginal archivists to work in First Nations communities and to give more control over materials gathered there to the people who created them.
"Decolonization" is a hot topic among those charged with storing, organizing and making accessible the...
This is a new position at the National Gallery of Art. The Media Archivist is responsible for supporting the Gallery Archives program in managing physical (analog) and digital time-based media objects, consisting of a large collection of institutional, unaccessioned audio and moving image materials. The incumbent spearheads the Gallery Archives’ development and implementation of A/V media retention policies; metadata standards for A/V materials; preservation storage of the media collection;...
Cliff Hight, Candidate for VP/Chair-Elect
Biographical statement:
Cliff Hight has been the university archivist at Kansas State University Libraries since 2011. His primary stewardship is the preservation and accessibility of historically-significant university records in all formats. He holds an MSIS in archives and records administration and an MA in history from the University at Albany, State University of New York. He was the archivist/curator at the Royal Gorge Regional Museum and...
Please join the Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS) for our annual business meeting on Monday, June 26, 2023 from 12-1:30 PM (EST). This meeting will be held via Webex. Please remember to register for the event through the SAA Connect event site.
There are no costs to attend the session and it is open to all; SAA membership is not required.
The annual meeting will include updates from TS-DACS on a variety of work, including TS-DACS educational videos...
On Saturday, August 3 11:30-12:45, RAO will host its Section Meeting and 7th Annual Marketplace of Ideas at the SAA Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. Please join us for our Business Meeting followed by the Marketplace!
Saturday, August 3rd from 11:30-12:45
Business meeting
Committee Reports
PSAC (Public Services Assessment Committee)
TPS (Teaching With Primary Sources)
E2 (Events and Exhibits)
Accessibility
Chair update
“Interested in contributing to RAO?”
Marketplace “pitches...
The Reference, Access, and Outreach Section invites applications for four unpaid internships. See the flyer below for position descriptions and application information. The deadline to apply is April 5.
Calling Privilege a Right is Just Plain Wrong
Greetings and salutations, all. Christine Anne George here. Perhaps you remember me from post #5 where I wrote about the Belfast Project back in November. Well I’m back to talk about it again in light of the document from the Government Affairs Working Group (GAWG) on the subject and the latest post on SAA president Jackie Dooley’s blog, Off the Record (OtR). In the interest of full disclosure, there are a few things you should know. I believe that...
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT (Select 1)
Danielle SangalangArchivist and Records Manager, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Biography:
Danielle Sangalang is the Archivist and Records Manager at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University. Danielle is an active member of the Digital Commonwealth Board of Directors and Past President (July 2019-June 2020). In 2020, she had the opportunity to help guide...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAD) issued a call for comments on the revision of EAD 2002 in October 2010. The comment period ended on February 28, 2011.
One hundred and twenty-seven comments were received. The submissions received during the comment period have been compiled into a spreadsheet and made available through the SAA standards portal EAD Revision page.
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...
Members,
Good news following the May Council meeting. Our Statement of Mission, Vision and Core Values has been officially (and unanimously) approved! Many thanks to those who offered feedback, both during last year’s business meeting and during the comment period in the fall. Some changes have been made to our original draft, most notably in the last value. The Steering Committee decided to change this value to “Dialogue” when conversations with Council revealed that we needed a...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 User Experience Section Special 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:
2 Steering Committee members (term ending August 2024).
We are also voting to approve our Section standing rules, as detailed below. The proposed rules are an important step to formalizing governance of the User Experience Section and were open...
The Functions Team of the Technical Committee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is excited to announce a webinar to support the call for comments!
During the early summer TS-EAS released a white paper introducing EAF, a draft XML encoding standard based on the International Standard Description of Functions (ISDF) that can be incorporated into the EAS family of standards.
The white paper describes the work of the subteam and its proposed encoding solution, along with a number of examples...
The ALA/SAA/AAM Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries, and Museums (CALM) encourages you to voice your support for the funding agencies that support Libraries, Archives, and Museums!
Here are several actions to take right now to support IMLS from the American Library Association’s (ALA) District Dispatch
Support IMLS and sign on to the Office of Museum Services Appropriations Letter through American Alliance of Museums (AAM)
Share your federal funding impact story through the Society of...
