2017 Web Archiving Section Meeting - Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting

Meeting Date(s): 
July 26, 2017 - 2:30pm

What: SAA Web Archiving Section Annual Meeting
When: 2:30 - 3:45PM PDT
Where: Oregon Convention Center, Room TBA
Online schedule listing: http://sched.co/ADFP

Agenda

  • 2:30 PM - 2:35 PM John: Call to order, welcome, introduction/housekeeping
  • 2:35 PM - 3:20 PM Panel: S/M/L .gov web archiving (Karl to moderate)
    • Jefferson Bailey: End of Term Project
    • Shari Laster: Archiving the California Government Domain
    • Max Ogden & Danielle Robinson: Data Rescue Portland
    • Moderated discussion with attendees
  • 3:20 PM - 3:35 PM Section business (John to moderate)
    • Alexis: Education survey results
    • John: Bylaws changes
    • Karl: Steering Committee transition
  • 3:35 PM - 3:45 PM John: Open forum (Q&A, OCLC WAM, etc.)

Questions 

~15 of the 45 minutes allotted for our panel will be used for discussion with/among the panelists and audience. Canned questions that steering committee members can use to stimulate discussion if/when need be include:

  • When is web archiving the right choice with this kind of info and when is it not. How in your case did you know?
  • How to engage the lay or otherwise not-totally-web-archiving-initiated stakeholders who care about this work? Any lessons from this experience?
  • What do these projects inform us regarding traditional archival practice? Do they suffer from lack of sustainable attention to description, QA, etc. Or, rather, can we learn and adapt to any model that they provide? Max, Danielle, and Shari all come from outside of the strictly ‘archival’ world and should be encouraged to speak from their perspectives.
  • Next steps for the field: what is the defining issue moving forward for each? Infrastructure, tech, personnel, etc.