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September 19, 2023
1p EST
Present:
Corinne Chatnik
Kristi Mukk
Amanda Greenwood
Lizzy Zarate
Allison Fischbach
Absent:
Hope Dunbar
Chair - Corinne Chatnik
Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian, Union College
Vice-Chair - Hope Dunbar
Secretary - Allison Fischbach
Digital Archivist, Johns Hopkins Medical Archives
Education Coordinator - Amanda Greenwood
Independent Archivist/Consultant (previously of Union College)
Communications - Kristi Mukk
Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Libraries
Student Member - Lizzy Zarate
Archives and Public History student, NYU; Web Archives Student Assistant, NYU
The Web Archiving Section hosted a joint meeting with the Preservation and International Archival Affairs sections on June 20th, 2023.
The meeting featured speakers from Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO).
Summary of Activities:
Coffee Chat no. 1: “Research Use of Web Archives”
Speaker: Dr. Ian Milligan, professor of history and Associate Vice-President, Research Oversight and Analysis at the University of Waterloo (150 registrants)
Coffee Chat no. 2: “The Rise of Collaboration Spaces at Work and the Challenges for Archivists”
Speaker: Julien Masanès, CEO of Hanzo Archives (121 registrants)
SAA Annual Meeting Informal Virtual Conversation Lounge: July 27 from 5:30pm-6:30pm to discuss the real-life trauma impacts of collecting web archives.
Outreach Statistics:
7 blog posts from November 2022-May 2023
3 international guest bloggers
782 blog views from August 2022-June 2023
30 tweets between November 2022-May 2023 with over 6,500 views
75 likes
50 retweets
Chair - Corinne Chatnik
Vice-Chair - Hope Dunbar
Secretary - Allison Fischbach
Education Coordinator - Amanda Greenwood
Communications - Kristi Mukk
Student Member - Lizzy Zarate
New Skills: outreach, planning events, recruiting blog posts
Positions Described on the Microsite: Standing Rules | Society of American Archivists
Recruitment for blog posts
Post a Welcome to the New Committee
Goal: post once a month, but not a hard standard
Guidelines for WAS Bloggers document is under WAS Drive > Blog
Idea: Focus on student work and new professionals in web archiving
Idea: Focus on web archives description (possibly related to reparative description)
Recruitment for Coffee Chats
Corinne shared Coffee Chat runsheet checklist
Idea: Greg Wiedman and Email Archiving
Idea: Ed Sommers and Web Archiving Appraisal
Past Social Media Strategy:
Participated in #WebArchiveWednesdays
Re-tweet and following/boosting other web archivists
Tweetdeck for scheduling posts (Twitter/X paywalled this feature recently)
Promote yourself/ what members of the committee are doing
Twitter/X still viable?
Alternative space?
Slack - internal to committee and open channels
Does SAA have an official Slack?
BlueSky
Threads/Instagram
Third Wednesday of the month, 1pm EST
Coffee Chat, bring your ideas
Blog Post, bring your ideas
Action Item: Allison will share information for new Gmail/Drive account
Action Item: Corinne will email liaison about Slack access
Action Item: Allison will share a draft ‘cold email’ blog request
Adjourned: 1:58p EST