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...
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....
Alongside the public call for comments on the new version of the Encoded Archival Description standard, EAD 4.0, the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites you to three informal drop-in sessions to discuss the main features of the new version. Following a brief presentation on a selected topic, each of these drop-in sessions will open the floor for your questions, comments, and suggestions.
Similar to previous TS-EAS...
Introduction to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) at the Society of American Archivists (SAA) held an introductory webinar on the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard on 21 May 2024, 10.30am UTC, with a focus on the East Asian archival community.
EAD is the international metadata transmission standard for hierarchical descriptions of archival records. Maintained and continuously developed further by TS-EAS, EAD is an...
The Functions Team within the Technical Committee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is happy to announce the release of a new 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 white paper also includes some context about the draft and...
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 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...
We would like to thank everyone who attended the annual meeting of the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards this past Tuesday. The presentation slides for the event are now available in the committee’s GitHub repository at https://github.com/SAA-SDT/TS-EAS-subteam-notes/blob/master/TS-EAS-Notes/2025/TS%20EAS%202025-07-22.pdf.
As mentioned, a follow-up community session on the ongoing standards revision process will be held on Thursday, August 14 at 12:30 PM ET. A link to...
A recording of this year's annual Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAS) public meeting is now available to the community on SAA’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFvJYqN7aYM. The meeting gives an overview of the structure of the subcommittee and a review of its work during the 2024-2025 term. This includes a discussion of current work on the revision of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and associated standards. Future updates on this standards work...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is exploring community implementation and use of archival encoding standards and systems. The purpose of this study is to help TS-EAS better understand the usage of these standards and to guide its outreach and communications program.
Your experience as an archives professional would provide valuable insight. The survey should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete, and all responses are anonymous and will be kept...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is exploring community implementation and use of archival encoding standards and systems. The purpose of this study is to help TS-EAS better understand the usage of these standards and to guide its outreach and communications program.
Your experience as an archives professional would provide valuable insight. The survey should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete, and all responses are anonymous and will be kept...
About this blog
The Schedule (http://saarmrt.wordpress.com/) is your source for news about the Society of American Archivists Records Management Section. Our intention with this blog is to provide announcements, learning and education opportunities, and chances to share knowledge with other members of the RMRT in a more dynamic way than we could achieve with the SAA-provided microsite alone. (The microsite will still be the section’s repository for meeting minutes, reports and other...
This document details the proposed changes to the bylaws with track changes. Please contact Beth Cron with any questions bethany.cron@nara.gov.
The proposed Records Management Roundtable bylaws were accepted by SAA Council at their May 2015 meeting. You can view the final bylaws in the attachment with all the changes accepted. We will be using these bylaws going forward including for the upcoming election.
Please contact Beth Cron at bethany.cron@nara.gov with any questions!
Hello Records Management Roundtable!
Are you going to be at SAA in August? Do you have a records management question or a topic you would like to share with the roundtable?
For the Annual Meeting in August, the roundtable meeting (Friday 8/21, 4:30-6:00) is collecting presentation ideas for lightning talks (about 5 minutes) after the business meeting. Along those lines, are there pressing issues, exciting developments, or otherwise unaddressed topics you’d like to discuss during the meeting?...
Please join the Records Management Roundtable at SAA 2015 for a series of lightning talks on various records management topics. We have a great lineup and look forward to having good discussions. The meeting will be held Friday, August 21 from 4:30 - 6:00pm in the Grand Ballroom A at the Cleveland Convention Center. If you can't attend follow along with #rmrt #saa15. The agenda is available here.
For the agenda, we will have a brief business meeting with announcements followed by these...
Please read the biographies and statements of interest for the 2017 Records Management Steering Committee candidates: http://www2.archivists.org/groups/records-management-section/2017-candidates-for-records-management-section-steering-committee
Please read the biographies and statements of interest for the 2018 Records Management Steering Committee candidates: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/records-management-section/2018-candidates-for-records-management-section-steering-committee-
The Section's membership will also be asked to approve proposed standing rules changes. You may review them here: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/records-management-section/proposed-2018-standing-rules-changes
Thank you to all our excellent nominees for the 2020 Records Management Section steering committee election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them.
You will be voting for:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, who will then serve one year as Chair and one year as Immediate Past Chair;
Steering Committee member (three-year term); and
Early Career Members (one-year term).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for...
SAA’s Records Management Section sponsors a peer-reviewed case study series that seeks to support the practical as well as the theoretical and scholarly aspects of the records and information management (RIM) profession.
Suggested case study length is 2,500 to 5,000 words. Elements of the case study include:
introduction
background/prior relevant work/institutional context
challenge addressed
strategies and resources employed
analysis of successes and setbacks
future plans
Illustrations,...
Ballot choices
Vice-chair/chair-elect (one vacancy):
Ryan Leimkuehler
University Records Manager and Assistant Professor at Kansas State University
Biography:
As the records manager for KSU for the past 4 years he has focused on training, outreach, and records retention guidance for the university community. Ryan is a member of the Midwest Archives Conference, Kansas City Area Archivist, and the Society of American Archivists and serves as a steering committee member for the Records Management...
Vice Chair/Chair Elect Candidates
Jessika Drmacich
Biography:
Jessika is Williams College’s Records Manager and Digital Resources Archivist. This is her seventh year serving on the records management steering committee most recently as Vice-Chair and Chair. Based in Williamstown Massachusetts, Jessika leads the records management program and navigates records policies specific to small liberal arts colleges. She also leads digital preservation, web archiving, and community archiving. She...
Vice Chair/Chair Elect Candidates:
Sophia McGuire
Biography: Sophia has been in the records & archives field since 2010, beginning her work as a student assistant in the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at Ohio State. In 2013 Sophia pursued an MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh, with a focus in Archives & Records Management. Since then, Sophia has worked in a variety of capacities as a records manager & archivist, primarily in government records. Her work has encompassed...
One open Vice Chair position
Autumn Oakey
Autumn Oakey is a Library Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she has worked in archives and libraries for three years. She manages physical records transfers, provides staff and departmental records management training, and updates university retention schedules. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in history from UW-Whitewater in 2021. Additionally, Autumn is working toward a master's in library and information science...
For those who couldn’t attend the Records Management Roundtable meeting at SAA 2015, I wanted to provide a summary. We had about 60 people turn out for the meeting on August 21, 2015. I started the meeting by describing some of our activities from the past year, such as our revised bylaws, the contributions of the steering committee to The Schedule blog, and changes to the newsletter. We only had one Google Hangout over the last year and we would like to hold more. This is a good opportunity...
