Hi everyone,
I am excited to announce our newly elected steering committee members- Denise Gallo and Gailyn Bopp. Denise Gallo will serve as Member-At-Large and Gailyn Bopp as Co-Chair/Chair-Elect. Listed below are their bios as refresher.
I want to thank all the candidates again for stepping up to support the section as well as all the section members who participated in our elections.
Denise Gallo Provincial Archivist of the Religious of Jesus and Mary
Denise Gallo has served as Provincial...
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Archival Repatriation Committee is pleased to announce that SAA Council approved the "Principles in Indigenous Archival Repatriation” (PINAR) as a professional standard on August 24, 2025. PINAR marks the culmination of work begun by the committee in 2022 to create professional guidance for the ethical return of archival materials to Indigenous communities, in line with the committee's charge: https://www2.archivists.org/governance-manual/archival-...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is happy to share the recordings of two webinars held in March 2022 in the context of the ongoing major revision of EAD (Encoded Archival Description). Furthermore, the EAD team of TS-EAS has finalized a minor revision of the EAD3 Tag Library, which the Standards Committee approved before the summer break.
Minor revision of the EAD3 Tag Library
While the major revision is taking up speed, TS-EAS would like to announce the...
2024 DRS Annual Meeting Agenda
Time: Monday, July 29th – 2 pm - 3:30 pm EST.
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm = Welcome & Announcements
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm = Digital Design Record Committee presentation
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm = Presentation: “Post 1991 Digital Records” by Becca Brown and Paige Adair of the Portman Archives
2:40 pm – 3:15 pm = Q & A for presenters and Open Floor for other DRS-related topics
We hope you can join us, even if it’s only for just a few minutes...
A former project (circa 2019) Zotero bibliography can be found here.
If you have questions about the bibliography, please contact Katharina Hering or one of the IAAS steering committee members.
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2021 Human Rights Archives Section 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 two Steering Committee members (three-year terms).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
The following candidates are running for the section steering committee:
Katherine...
The Oral History Section is holding a special election for the two seats on the Steering Committee: vice chair/chair-elect and member at-large. Please see the candidate statements below and be sure to vote by Monday, October 13 on https://mysaa.archivists.org/myballots.
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates (three-year term)
Patrick Daglaris
Patrick Daglaris is the archivist and assistant department head for the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the Oklahoma State University Library, where...
TS-EAD has been working hard to complete the development of EAD3. The core schema was redesigned this fall to support the creation of derivative forms, including Relax NG, XSD, and DTD versions, along with undeprecated versions of each. Many bugs were squashed along the way as well. The stable development version of the schema can be found at https://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD-Revision/tree/develop.
Currently we are focused on developing the migration style sheet and finalizing the tag library...
SAA's Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) will host a webinar on December 13, 2021 to provide an update on work on the Records in Contexts (RiC) model. Two members of the International Council on Archives Experts Group on Archival Description (EGAD) will present a brief overview of the archival description standard RiC followed by Q&A discussion. The presentation will cover both the Conceptual Model (RiC-CM) and Ontology (RiC-O).
Time/Date
This 60-minute...
Registration is now open!
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...
Heading into the new SAA year after the Annual Meeting in August, the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) has finalised two minor revisions of EAD3 (Tag Library) and EAD 2002 (Schema), which the Standards Committee approved before the summer break. With this, TS-EAS also would like to kick off the major revision of EAD, asking for the community’s comments to get us started.
Minor revisions - EAD3 Tag Library and EAD 2002 schema
As a precursor to the major revision,...
As part of the major revision of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD), the Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section Steering Committee, will be hosting a webinar in March to introduce the main aspects of the revision and the process to getting to a new version. We invite everyone who works with archival description in whichever format and context to join us and to be...
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 RAO Section is organizing a Community Call to encourage discussion and support among SAA members. The focus of this Community Call will be on how the RAO community has been doing reference and outreach during this time of varied work environments. We hope this call will allow members to share challenges and successes, whether you are working remotely, in a hybrid model, or fully back in the reading room.
Please join us on Tuesday, November 10 from 12:30pm – 2pm EST. Feel free to drop in...
The RAO Section is organizing a Community Call to encourage discussion and support among members. This Community Call will be focused on how the RAO community has been performing reference work during this time of varied work environments. We hope this call will allow members to share challenges and successes, whether you are working remotely, in a hybrid model, or fully back in the reading room.
Please join us on Tuesday, April 27 from 1:30pm – 3:00pm EST. Feel free to drop in and stay as...
The election is now open! You can view the candidate statements here.
Important Dates:The elections will open on Monday, June 23 and remain open through Monday, July 15.
When you're ready to vote, please use this link and click on the Native American Archives Section ballot.
Please note that you must be a current member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) to participate in the election.
Thank you for supporting NAAS leadership. Your voice matters!
There are two ways to submit comments on the Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessionng.
1. Review the attached PDF here and submit feedback to luglean@uwyo.edu.
2. Go to http://rddrt.forens.es/ and post your comments directly online. Please note that comments posted here will be seen by anyone who visits the page.
Comments must be received by October 16, 2011. The RD-DRT will discuss all comments after this date.
Registration is now open for the joint annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS). The meeting will be held via Webex on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (CT).
Please visit the event listing on SAA’s website to register. There are no costs to attend the session and it is open to all; SAA membership is not required. While you do not need to register for the...
SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards invite you to a three-part webinar series on controlled vocabularies. This series will review the purpose of data value standards, how to approach their usage, and the current encoding options in Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Encoded Archival Context (EAC-CPF). Along with other technical aspects of their implementation, the sessions will provide examples of the practical application of controlled...
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!
Noah Huffman of the EAD Subteam reports that EAD3 v1.1.0 has been released. EAD3 Version 1.1.0 represents the first minor revision to EAD3 since its initial release in 2015.
Schemas
EAD3 v1.1.0 is available for download from Github at: https://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD3/releases/tag/v1.1.0. The release package can be downloaded as a .zip or .tar.gz, and contains the full set of EAD3 v1.1.0 schemas: Relax NG, W3C, and DTD; the ancillary Schematron schema for validating external code lists,...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Visual Materials Section 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:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a three-year term; and
Two Steering Committee members (one three-year term, one two-year term).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot...
2025 IAAS Special Election: Slate of Candidates
The ballot will open on Monday, September 29, and remain open for 2 weeks, closing on Monday, October 13, 2025.
Please find the 2025 IAAS Special Election Candidate Statements below:
Open Position: Member-at-Large
(3-year term ending on 9/1/2028)
CANDIDATES (3 TOTAL):
1. Elaine Slayton Akin
Biographical Statement:
Elaine Slayton Akin holds a master's in art history from the University of Memphis and has been the Archivist of Riverside Avondale...
TS-DACS is thrilled to announce that SAA Council unanimously approved their proposal for two new required elements for DACS.
Chapter 8 (Description Control) will now include required element 8.2, Rights Statement for Archival Description. Chapter 13 (Authority Record Management) will include a new required element 13.10, Rights Statement for Archival Authority Records. Chapters 1 and 9 will also be updated to reflect the new required elements.
TS-DACS will begin work to add the new...
Co-chair Candidates
Stacie Williams: Stacie Williams is the Learning Lab Manager at the University of Kentucky's Special Collections Research Center, coordinating an undergraduate archives research internship, and she additionally teaches the graduate-level archives and manuscripts management course in UK’s School of Library and Information Science. She has previously worked at Tufts University's Digital Collections and Archives, the Harvard Medical School's Countway Library, and the Lexington...
