Posts by Year

2025

• 11/06 Why Preserve? To Connect!

2020

• 02/26 THATCamp Reflections

2019

• 03/25 Seeking Diverse Voices: Reflections on Recruiting Chapter Authors
• 01/29 Chapter 10: Open Source, Version Control and Software Sustainability by Ildikó Vancsa
• 01/27 Chapter 9: Sharing Research Data, Data Standards and Improving Opportunities for Creating Visualisations by Dr. Vetria Byrd
• 01/26 Chapter 8: Preparing and Releasing Official Statistical Data by Professor Natalie Shlomo
• 01/22 Chapter 7: Historical Building Information Model (BIM)+: Sharing, Preserving and Reusing Architectural Design Data by Dr. JuHyun Lee and Dr. Ning Gu
• 01/16 Chapter 6: Accurate Digital Colour Reproduction on Displays: from Hardware Design to Software Features by Dr. Abhijit Sarkar
• 01/06 Chapter 5: The Internet of Things: the risks and impacts of ubiquitous computing by Éireann Leverett

2018

• 12/29 Chapter 4: Link Rot, Reference Rot and the Thorny Problems of Legal Citation by Ellie Margolis
• 12/23 Chapter 3: The Rise of Computer-Assisted Reporting by Brant Houston
• 12/17 Chapter 2: Curbing the Online Assimilation of Personal information by Paulan Korenhof
• 12/13 Chapter 1: Inheritance of Digital Media by Dr. Edina Harbinja
• 12/10 Overview of Partners for Preservation
• 12/04 Countdown to Partners for Preservation

2014

• 05/13 Caffè Lena History Project’s Searchable Database

2013

• 02/18 The CODATA Mission: Preserving Scientific Data for the Future

2012

• 11/06 Election Eve: Fighting for the Right to Vote
• 10/15 Harnessing The Power of We: Transcription, Acquisition and Tagging
• 10/12 UNESCO/UBC Vancouver Declaration
• 08/05 CURATEcamp Processing 2012
• 07/09 Grateful Dead Archive Online: First Impressions
• 05/03 MARAC Spring 2012: Preservation of Digital Materials (Session S1)
• 03/31 Digitization Quality vs Quantity: An Exercise in Fortune Telling
• 02/03 Digitization Program Site Visit: Archives of American Art

2011

• 12/12 Digitization Program Site Visit: University of Maryland
• 10/06 Day of Digital Archives
• 08/31 SXSW Panel Proposal – Archival Records Online: Context is King
• 07/25 Rescuing 5.25″ Floppy Disks from Oblivion
• 06/01 Career Update
• 03/31 SXSWi: You’re Dead, Your Data Isn’t: What Happens Now?
• 03/13 SXSW Interactive: Data and Revelations
• 03/09 Heading to Austin for SXSW Interactive
• 01/16 Creative Funding for Text-Mining and Visualization Project

2010

• 12/06 Support EAD Tagging Research
• 10/15 Blog Action Day: Flickr Commons Images of Acquiring Water
• 10/01 Breast Cancer: Join the Army of Women & Help Scientists Find the Cause
• 08/13 SAA2010: SEO and Archives Websites
• 07/07 ArchivesZ Needs You!
• 05/29 Gridworks: Super Data Cleanup and Exploration Tool
• 05/07 MARAC Spring 2010: Hurray for Archival Metadata (Session S2)
• 04/27 Topic Modeling, Auto-Classification and Archival Description
• 03/24 Ada Lovelace Day: Portraits of Women in Technology
• 03/05 Encouraging Participation in the Census
• 02/16 National Archives Transitions to Flickr Commons Membership
• 01/26 Leveraging Google Reader’s Page Change Tracking for Web Page Preservation
• 01/10 Concertina History Online Features Virtual Collaboration and Digitization

2009

• 12/16 Archival Photographs as Art: A Part of Larry Sultan’s Legacy
• 11/17 Interactive Archivist: Spellbound Blog as a Case Study
• 10/16 Blog Action Day 2009: IEDRO and Climate Change
• 10/12 Flickr Galleries: Fun with Flickr Commons
• 09/12 SEO Evaluation of an Archival Website: Looking at UMBC’s Digital Collections
• 09/08 A History of Our Own, Representing Communities and Identities on the Web (SAA09: Session 202)
• 08/25 Archival Collections Online: Reaching Audiences Beyond The Edge of Campus (SAA09: Session 405)
• 08/13 SAA09: My Session on Online Communities (Session 101)
• 07/25 THATCamp Austin 2009: Now Accepting Applications
• 06/29 DH2009: Digital Curiosities and Amateur Collections
• 06/25 DH2009: Digital Lives and Personal Digital Archives
• 06/13 Yahoo & Google’s Search for Reusable Images and the Flickr Commons
• 06/06 Archivists and New Technology: When Do The Records Matter?
• 05/13 ArchivesZ Data Challenges: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 05/06 ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Forest History Society
• 05/06 Another Thrilling Digital Adventure With Team Digital Preservation
• 05/01 University of Maryland: Benefits of Blogging Workshop (May 6, 2009)
• 04/26 ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Utah Government Archives & Records Service
• 04/22 ArchivesZ Poster Wins 2nd Place at GRID 2009
• 04/17 Warner Brothers Archive DVDs: Classic Movies On-Demand
• 04/12 ArchivesZ Poster at UMD’s GRID 2009
• 03/25 Archiving Women in Technology: A Tribute to Ada Lovelace
• 03/23 ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Princeton University
• 03/19 NARA Outgrows ARC: Researching New Catalog Software Options
• 03/18 Sunshine Week 2009: Archives, Records and Other Online Government Information
• 03/07 ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center
• 02/22 ArchivesZ Data Challenges: Oregon State University Archives
• 02/18 Preserving Jewish Memory: Family Photos Join Oral History in Centropa Movies
• 01/26 German Federal Archives, Crowdsourcing & the Wikimedia Commons
• 01/19 SAA2008: Chinese Hammered Dulcimer + Tango = Archivists as Creative Collaborators
• 01/14 Library of Congress Inauguration 2009 Audio and Video Project

2008

• 12/12 SAA2009: Building, Managing and Participating in Online Communities
• 12/10 Google Tackles Magazine Archives
• 12/08 Susa 2.0: Max Evans’ Finding Aid Prototype
• 11/23 A Blogging Landmark – 100,000 Words and Counting
• 11/22 LIFE Photo Archive Digitized and Put Online by Google
• 11/14 Video News Archives: Digitization as Good Business
• 11/02 SpellboundBlog Bookmarks now on Delicious
• 10/28 Political Campaign Ads from the NBC News Archives Find New Audience on Hulu.com
• 10/15 Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty in the Archival Record and Beyond
• 09/29 Jewish New Year 5769: Images and Words from the Past
• 09/25 Celebrating NASA’s 50th with NASA Images
• 09/21 Spellbound Blog on Twitter
• 09/20 Vice President Ruled Part of Executive Branch: Cheney’s Records Must Be Preserved
• 09/12 NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant News: Visualizing Archival Collections
• 09/12 SAA2008: Yale, Family Papers & High School Students (Session 508)
• 09/06 SAA2008: Preservation and Experimentation with Analog/Digital Hybrid Literary Collections (Session 203)
• 09/02 SAA2008: Revealing Archival Collections at the Web’s Surface (Session 102)
• 08/28 SAA2008: Hitting the ground running
• 08/25 After The Games Are Over: Olympic Archival Records
• 08/20 Geek Archivist and Other T-Shirts
• 08/16 Freebase Parallax Search Interface: Exploring Olympic Games Facts
• 08/15 SAA Wiki 2008: Create an account and add your voice!
• 08/02 Online Interactive U.S. Copyright Slider
• 07/30 Group Looking for Accreditation of Archival Education by SAA
• 07/20 Dipity: Easy Hosted Timelines
• 07/06 Flickr Terms of Service, Unwritten Guidelines and Safety Levels
• 06/18 SAA2008: The Wiki is Online
• 06/14 THATCamp 2008: Day 1 Dork Short Lightening Talks
• 06/05 THATCamp 2008: Crowdsourced Transcription and Collaborative Annotation
• 06/01 THATCamp 2008: Text Mining and the Persian Carpet Effect
• 05/23 Learn About Wikis on Second Life (May 25th, 2008)
• 05/14 Clustering Data: Generating Organization from the Ground Up
• 05/01 MayDay 2008: Do you have a disaster plan?
• 04/23 Of Pirates, Treasure Chests and Keys: Improving Access to Digitized Materials
• 04/10 Anyone going to IA Summit 2008?
• 04/09 Copyright Slider: Quick Easy Access to Copyright Laws and Guidelines
• 03/23 SAA2008: PDFs of Conference Presentations
• 03/15 Big Digital Step For SAA: American Archivist Online
• 03/02 ISSUU: Interesting Platform for Online Publishing
• 02/26 New Skills for a Digital Era: Official Proceedings Now Available
• 02/13 Pondering Structured Data About Archives: Archives Wiki, Freebase and OCLC’s World Map & WikiD
• 02/05 Chapters and Loose Papers: A Newsletter for Students of Archival Science
• 02/01 Capa’s Found Images and Thoughts on Digital Photographers’ Sketchbooks
• 01/28 Caring for Special Collections: Exploring the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf
• 01/17 LOC + Flickr equals Crowdsourced Tagging
• 01/13 MIT’s SIMILE Project: Innovations in Metadata Interaction and Analysis
• 01/10 SAA2008 Here I Come! After the Revolution: Unleashing the Power of EAD

2007

• 12/25 Digital Preservation via Emulation – Dioscuri and the Prevention of Digital Black Holes
• 12/06 Will Crashed Hard Drives Ever Equal Unlabeled Cardboard Boxes?
• 11/23 Using WWI Draft Registration Cards for Research: NARA Records Provide Crucial Data
• 11/14 The MemoryArchive Affiliate Program: A Wiki Engine for Collecting Memoirs
• 11/09 SAA2007: Content Aggregation, Shareable Metadata and Access (Session 607)
• 10/24 SAA2007: Archives and E-Commerce, Three Case Studies (Session 404)
• 10/22 October is American Archives Month
• 10/15 Blog Action Day: A Look At Earth Day as Archived Online
• 09/26 Nurturing Fearlessness in the Face of Computers
• 09/22 SAA2007: Publishers’ Bindings Online – Digitization, Collaboration, Standardization and Community Building (Session 707)
• 09/08 SAA2007: Preserving Born Digital Records of the Design Community (Session 106)
• 09/03 Reflections on SAA2007 and Ten Tips for an Optimal Conference Experience
• 08/31 BlogDay2007: Five New Blogs for Your Consideration
• 08/31 SAA2007: Opening Plenary Session Ponders Diversity
• 08/24 Final Count Down to SAA2007
• 08/17 Preserving Virtual Worlds – TinyMUD to SecondLife
• 08/07 Controversial Photos, Archvists’ Choices and Journalism
• 07/30 Phoenix DVD destined for Mars
• 07/29 Public.Resource.Org: Creative Financing and Public Domain Content
• 07/19 Happy Birthday Spellbound Blog
• 07/17 Metadata World Building: Freebase.com and OpenLibrary.org
• 07/06 Thoughts on Digital Preservation, Validation and Community
• 06/22 WordPress Blog Magic – A look under the hood
• 06/19 Unofficial SAA2007 Chicago Conference Wiki Now Online
• 06/07 International Environmental Data Rescue Organization: Rescuing At Risk Weather Records Around the World
• 05/28 reCAPTCHA: crowdsourcing transcription comes to life
• 05/24 Book Review: Dreaming in Code (a book about why software is hard)
• 05/15 Redacting Data – A T-Shirt and Other Thoughts
• 05/13 ArchivesZ: Visualizing Archival Collections
• 05/03 RSS and Mainstream News Outlets
• 04/26 Epidemiological Research and Archival Records: Source of Records Used for Research Fails to Make the News
• 04/19 Digital Archiving Articles – netConnect Spring 2007
• 04/12 Copyright Law: Archives, Digital Materials and Section 108
• 04/08 Visualizing Archival Collections
• 04/05 Getting Your Toes Wet: Basic Principals of Design for the New Web
• 04/04 Ideas for SAA2007: Web Awards, Wikis and Blogs
• 03/30 SAA Members: make sure your ballot is in the mail
• 03/28 Supporting Appraisal of Digital Records
• 03/23 Considering Historians, Archivists and Born Digital Records
• 03/16 Google, Privacy, Records Managment and Archives
• 03/14 The Archives and Archivists Listserv: hoping for a stay of execution
• 03/06 NARA’s Electronic Records Archives in West Virginia
• 02/27 WorldCat Identities: Visualizing Library Catalog Data
• 02/26 Academy Awards: Archives Highlighted during the 60 second description of the Academy
• 02/17 Understanding Born Digital Records: Journalists and Archivists with Parallel Challenges
• 02/09 Should we be archiving fonts?
• 02/04 Spring 2007:Access and Information Visualization
• 01/25 Book Review: Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History
• 01/18 Book Review: Digital Preservation
• 01/17 Footnote.com and US National Archives records
• 01/09 OBR: Optical Braille Recognition
• 01/04 GIS and Geospatial Data Preservation: Research Resources
• 01/02 The Edges of the GIS Electronic Record

2006

• 12/15 Google Earth, Historical Maps and Ideas on Context
• 11/24 DMCA Exemption Added That Supports Archivists
• 11/21 129th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph
• 11/21 Amazing Visual Tools
• 11/14 Archival Context and Description – Taking It to the Next Level
• 11/07 Squirl.info – an interesting option for putting collections online
• 10/26 Interesting Interface for exploring E-mail: TrampolineSystem SONAR Platform
• 10/13 The Yahoo! Time Capsule
• 10/12 Archival Transcriptions: for the public, by the public
• 10/09 SAA 2007 Session Proposal Submitted
• 09/28 SAA 2007 Session Proposal: Preserving Context and Original Order in a Digital World
• 09/27 Reflections on Blogging at SAA 2006
• 09/27 Records Speaking to the Present: Voices Not Silenced
• 09/20 My New Daydream: A Hosting Service for Digitized Collections
• 09/19 Just Promise to Put It All Online
• 09/13 GIS, Access, Archives and Daydreams
• 09/09 Ideas about Zotero and Digitized Archives
• 09/06 Google Newspaper Archives
• 08/29 SAA 2006: Research Library Group Roundtable – Internet Archiving
• 08/20 SAA2006 Session 305: Extended Archival Description Part III – EAD and TEI
• 08/15 SAA 2006 Poster: Communicating Context in Online Collections
• 08/11 SAA2006 Session 305: Extended Archival Description Part II – ArchivesUM
• 08/09 Question from the Archives of American Art and EAD talk (session 305)
• 08/08 Session 305: Extended Archival Description Part I – Archives of American Art
• 08/06 Session 510: Digital History and Digital Collections (aka, a fan letter for Roy and Dan)
• 08/05 Overall Conference Impressions
• 08/04 SAA 2006 Session 103: “X” Marks the Spot: Archiving GIS Databases – Part III
• 08/04 SAA 2006 Session 103: “X” Marks the Spot: Archiving GIS Databases – Part II
• 08/04 SAA 2006 Session 103: “X” Marks the Spot: Archiving GIS Databases – Part I
• 08/01 SAA2006: Joint Annual Meeting of NAGARA, COSA, and SAA
• 07/26 Thoughts on Archiving Web Sites
• 07/20 Paper Calendars, Palm Pilots and Google Calendar
• 07/19 Introduction