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Symposium Chat - Session 6: Outreach, Saturday 3.30-4.30pm

Proposals

• Thompson
• Wilson
• Redwine (collaboration)
• Hinderliter
• Gueguen

Ask an archivist day - http://askarchivists.wordpress.com/

Session 6: Outreach

Simon: Two issues to talk about: Training and Collaboration

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Aprille: Campus Case study on Univ of Michigan's Michigan’s use of website archiving tool now on SAA website. Collecting strategy to now archive partly rely on web collection for campus publications online only.  http://www2.archivists.org/publications/epubs/Campus-Case-Studies (Michael Shallcross)

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Gabby: Goodwill Industries has a computer museum. This is a good source of older media for accessing old disks. Hasn't Hasn’t worked out a way to work with them, or build a relationship. Anyone here been outside of an institution with a "civilian “civilian partner?" ”

Peter: Stanford has punchcards in Gould collection. They have a friend at the computer museum so they were able to read the punchcards at the museum.

Mark: Collaboration at Yale across library units. Can they create an institutional shared space with equipment, software?

Dave: Real issue isn't isn’t hardware, it's it’s expertise and knowledge to understand how to use those machines. Good to be somewhat unstructured, but some instructions like contract.

Brian: Can't Can’t we learn from video folks? How did they put together their networks? They've They’ve been sharing equipment for years.

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Peter: Stanford does use vendors, if they can find them. 5.25" 25” floppies, punchcards can be hard to find them. Hiring is difficult but outsourcing can be easier.

Simon: Organizations trust us with paper, so assumed they automatically trust us with digital. We need to make an effort to explain the importance of capturing data earlier and how long it takes to process collections.

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Helen: Some of their collections aren't aren’t on Wikipedia at all. They don't don’t have time to make entries, but they would like to.

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Ed: They had ideas on how they would use items on Flickr, but it wasn't wasn’t the commuity of interest they wanted. It's It’s a lot of overhead to get community stimulated.

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Matt: Speak to other organizations like digital humanities at their conferences. There is a meeting at MIT this weekend (on twitter) on digital literature with panels on archives and cultural memory. There's There’s more that can be done to talk to writers about what archives means in digital collections.

Dave: Recognize enthusiasm of undergraduates. Students do work in institution and it's it’s interesting to talk to them about the work that they are doing. It's It’s clear that "passion “passion for working with digital material is unbounded." ” Counter to that: they are talking about working with digital material in a narrow concept. Aware of format migration, obsolescence, emulation v. migration but unaware of why they would want to work with digital material.

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Gretchen: Posts about Day in the Life of Digital Archiving. Way to brand what we are doing.

"Ask “Ask an Archivist" Archivist” is about to happen.

What to teach in courses? Attitude, enthusiasm, willing to learn. Time limited in courses. Literature can be overwhelming. Number of tools can be daunting.

Ricc: A sponsor site for IMLS grant on preservation. Start with assumption that students may not have gotten to point to discuss literature. Start with 4 days of reading. Second, start with specific tasks that is research oriented because you can't can’t get away from research in this profession.

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What skills do we need? Look at SAA New Skills for a Digital Era. Look at Jackie Dooley's Dooley’s  report that is coming up.

Wrap-up and Moving Forward

Ways to keep in touch:

Bi-monthly Web Meeting

CurateCamp

How do we continue developing tools?

• We need to be more conscious of what each other are working on
• Willing to share things that are not fully baked
  

What do we do about tools that already exist and port them to the future? We need to have a sustainable model for tools

We agree this group is now a resource for discussion. We have built a community.

It is possible to build these meetings in the UnConference, THATCamp model in regions across the US (and regionally in UK.)

Major Topics:

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