2008 SAA Research Forum

The second annual SAA Research Forum was held Tuesday, August 26, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Hilton San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The forum explored the full spectrum of research activities – from “pure” research to applied research to innovative practice.

Session 1: Digital Content Planning

Moderator: NANCY Y. MCGOVERN
Bio [PDF]

Ephemeral Music: Electroacoustic Music Collections in the United States [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
ADRIANA P. CUERVO

Incentives for Data Producers to Create “Archive/Ready” Data: Implications for Archives and Records Management [PDF]
Abstract & Bios [PDF]
MARGARET HEDSTROM and JINFANG NIU

Digitizing Photographs: Exploring the Relationship Between Building and Using Image Digital Archives [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
PAUL CONWAY

Session 2: Format Foundations

Moderator: JOANNE KACZMAREK
Bio [PDF]

Computer Assisted Appraisal of Contemporary PDF Documents [PDF]
Abstract & Bios [PDF]
PETER BAJCSY and SANG-CHUL LEE

Digital Dilemmas: Archiving E-Mail [PDF]
Abstract & Bios [PDF]
NANCY ADGENT and LYNDA SCHMITZ FUHRIG

Preserving Electronic Mailing Lists as Scholarly Resources: The H-Net Archives [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
LISA M.SCHMIDT

Session 3: User Studies

Moderator: PAUL CONWAY
Bio [PDF]

Developing the Archival Metrics Toolkits: Conceptual Development and Testing [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
MORGAN DANIELS

Generating Higher Response Rates for User-based Evaluation Instruments in Archives and Special Collections [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
HELEN R. TIBBO

Survey of 4,002 Historians on How Faculty Use Primary Sources to Teach Undergraduates
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
DORIS J. MALKMUS

Session 4: Archivists and Content

Moderator: NANCY BARTLETT
Bio [PDF]

Archival History: A Case in Point
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
SUSANNE BELOVARI

The Permanence of Provenance: The “Two Traditions” and the American Archival Profession [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
REBECCA HIRSCH

Remembered History, Archival Discourse, and the September 11 Digital Archive [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
JANE ZHANG

Using Oral Histories to Repair the Archival Wounds of Watergate [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
MEGHAN LEE

Session 5: Format Frontiers

Moderator: ARDYS KOZBIAL
Bio [PDF]

Automatic Metadata Extraction for Archival Description and Access [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
WILLIAM UNDERWOOD

FACADE: Future-proofing Architectural Computer-Aided Design [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
MACKENZIE SMITH

I Know it's Important, But What Am I Looking at? Strategies for using Blog Content to Contextualize YouTube Videos [PDF]
Abstract & Bio [PDF]
CAL LEE