This week we continued working on special collections and then headed to San Diego for the Society for American Archivists conference. I attended a number of sessions during our three days there.
The first panel I attended was the Metadata and Digital Objects roundtable and learned about how relationships between creators can be mapped to reveal social networks within the correspondence of an archival collection. Viewing these social networks can allow us to visually discover connections through documented material that might be difficult to recognize with other methods. Our EAD/EAC-CPF workshop leader, Katherine Wisser also gave a presentation in this seminar. I also attended the meetings of SAA groups such as the Archivists Roundtable of Color, Oral History, and Recorded Sound. There as an interesting session on the preservation and access of 16 mm, 8 mm, and Super 8 film called "Small Frame Big Picture and another workshop on open source video archiving solutions. In that workshop they discussed a video codec called ffvl and a preservations system called Archivematica.
In addition our director, Julieanna Richardson moderated a panel on African American's in archives and we also attended the presentations where our predecessors discussed donor relations and living archives.
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