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Digital Archivist 
Bentley Historical Library 
University of Michigan 
1150 Beal Ave. 
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1333  
www.bentley.umich.edu

Seth Shaw

Hello! I'm Seth Shaw, Electronic Records Archivist, at the Duke University Archives (& Special Collections). If it comes through Duke's Special Collections and is born-digital, I am involved. What I am working on largely depends on the moment you talk to me: infrastructure & metadata (the constant battle), web-archivy (mostly via Archive-It), forensics, email, looking into emulation/virtualization, electronic poetry, organizational records, personal records, etc... I have been at Duke since 2007. Previously I earned my Masters of Information: Archives and Records Management from the University of Michigan, School of Information and my Bachelors of Science in Information Systems from Brigham Young University - Idaho in 2005. Additionally, I co-teach a two-day workshop for SAA: "Managing Electronic Records in Archives and Special Collections." 

I look forward to seeing you all in April. 

Seth Shaw 
Electronic Records Archivist 
Duke University Archives 

Dawn Schmitz

Hi all, my name is Dawn Schmitz and I am the archivist at the University of California, Irvine, where I am responsible for the management of technical services for archives and manuscripts. I have served as the archivist on one born-digital manuscripts processing project, working on a team with IT specialists and metadata librarians. As part of my current responsibilities, I am starting to work on establishing policies and procedures for the management of our born-digital manuscript materials, with an emphasis on accessioning, ingest, and storage. This week I will be attending the SAA workshop, Managing Electronic Records in Archives and Special Collections, where I hope to learn a bit more about digital curation and get a hands-on demo of Archivematica. I'm looking forward to the AIMS symposium and I know I will be learning much that I can apply to my work.

Ed Fay

Hello everyone, I'm Ed Fay - the Collections Digitisation Manager at the London School of Economics. I'm leading our programme of digital library development which is building on Fedora (and the Hydra framework) and aiming to have preservation storage and an ingest workflow for digital archives (Archivematica) in production by July this year. 

Our programme is titled "Digital Library Management and Infrastructure Development" which attempts to get across the idea that we are not only building a system we are also looking across all aspects of our digital collections - from strategy and policy through to staffing and of course technical development. Our primary focus at the moment is on ingest and preservation. 

Digital collections for us includes digital archives, digitised materials, our institutional repository and will at some inevitable point involve things like web archiving, forensic analysis of researcher's machines, research data management and so on. At the moment we are working with relatively structured collections - organisational archive deposits and digitised collections - but making preparations to deal with more complex scenarios. 

I work closely with our Archive department but am not myself an archivist - nor a librarian! I'm still working towards my formal information science qualification - I'm hoping to write a dissertation this year on the 'perception and demonstration of trust in digital libraries'. Much of my work is cross-library with archivists, librarians, learning technologists, IT specialists, etc.. I also manage our digitisation programme which is currently undertaking a number of projects and actively planning our next tranche of work and funding proposals. 

I look forward to participating in the symposium and meeting those of you I don't already know. 

All the best,

Ed Fay 
Collection Digitisation Manager 
Library, The London School of Economics and Political Science 
10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD  
http://www.library.lse.ac.uk/  
http://www.twitter.com/digitalfay 

Peter Chan 

I am Peter Chan, Digital Archivist in the AIMS Project at Stanford University Libraries. For the past 14 months, I have been exploring and setting up equipments / software / workflow to work with born-digital materials at Stanford. (See workflow diagram at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0By...) 

Highlights are follows:. 

1. Pre-Accessioning 
a. Explore the creation of high resolution site photos in donors/creators' offices. (see https://lib.stanford.edu/digital-forensics-stanford-university-librar...) 
b. With the help from all AIMS partners, created a donor survey based on the Paradigm records survey (published by the Bodleian Library, Oxford University). (See https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1-zhAUIAOyvBmGvmi-jHeQZOLbsO...) 

2. Accessioning 
a. Assembled a capture station for 5.25 floppy diskettes (IBM/MS DOS format) using components (CPU, RAM, motherboard, 5.25 inch. floppy drive, etc.) bought from NewEgg, eBay, etc. 
b. Use FTK Imager to perform logical / forensic capture. (Creating a YouTube video introducing the capture of born digital materials at Stanford.) 
c. Used external vendor to recover data from 4 "broken" hard drives. (See http://www.securedatarecovery.com/hard-drive-data-recovery.html) 
d. Setup a photo station to capture photographic images of computer media. The setup allows a computer to control a camera and to view the objects in the computer screen. This will streamline the photography of large volume of computer media and will allow the quality assurance of the photos to be performed immediately after the photos are being taken. 

3. Processing 
a. Explore the use of AccessData FTK to extract technical metadata and to assign descriptive metadata to collections. (See YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDAhbR8dyp8) 
b. Explore the use of Adobe Bridge to add/supplement descriptive metadata to the IPTC data in image collections. 
c. Explore the use of Transit Solution to transform files with obsoltete formats to html. (See http://www.avantstar.com/metro/home/Products/TransitSolutions) 
d. Planning a hands-on FTK workshop for Stanford people in May. 

4. Delivery 
a. Explore the use a Fedora repository with files transferred from FTK to delivery collections. 
b. Explore the use of Virtual Machine software from Parallels to deliver design files created with InDesign together with the custom designed fonts in the reading room. 
c. Explore the use of AccessData FTK to deliver collections in the reading room. 

5. Preservation 
Will work with the SDR (Stanford Digital Repository) team to ingest files to preservation repository. (Submission agreement, SIP creation, etc.) 

6. Alternative Processing 
a. Explore the use of OpenCalais to perform entity extraction (See http://www.opencalais.com/about) 
b. Worked with Elijah Meeks, Digital Humanities Specialist at Stanford, to create network graph of Robert Creeley's emails using Gephi.  (see http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/02/palo-alto-ca/) 
c. Working with Sudheendra Hangal, PhD candidate from the Stanford Computer Science dept., to use MUSE (an email mining program for long-term email archives, from the Mobisocial laboratory at Stanford University) on Robert Creeley's emails. (See http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/muse/) 

I am also very interested in enhancing the authenticity of electronic files by using digital signatures. 

I am looking forward to learning from you all and to sharing my experience. 

Peter Chan 
Digital Archivist, AIMS Project 
Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries 
Stanford, CA  

Mark Matienzo

I'm Mark Matienzo, digital archivist at Manuscripts and Archives (MSSA) at Yale University. The majority of my time is spent working on the AIMS project, where I'm the lead digital archivist (a quasi-official project management role). I have also recently been appointed as the functional lead for the development of Hypatia, the Hydra head for AIMS. I've worked at Yale since January 2010, and before that I was a programmer for the New York Public Library's Digital Experience Group and was assistant archivist for systems  at the American Institute of Physics. I'm active in SAA, and I hold or have held positions on the EAD Roundtable, the Technical Subcommittee on EAD,  the Description Section, the Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable, and the Electronic Records Section.

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