@eiratansey @archivesnext @amelish He was at #saa13. Title may ruffle feathers, his study on context of book annotations was great
Social media integrating use stats to manage relationships - correlates to archivists need for context #saa13 #s701
“Archives should move away from bibliographic-based standards and toward social media-style data management” - Bak #saa13 #s701
Great (and succinct) elevator speech heard at yesterday's Lone Arrangers RT: "I keep our history and tell our stories." #saa13 #s704
Elevator speech advice: Make it sound natural, not canned. Be an advocate for the service you provide, as well as the archives #saa13 #s704
Donors, schmonors... I need to work on my elevator speech to avoid boring the bejeezus out of my collegues. #saa13 #s704
Good advice: adjust your elevator speech to match your audience... be they donors, researchers, collegues, etc. #saa13 #s704
To support pitches to funders; real-time demo done for @LYRASIS will be cleaned up and placed on the @ArchivesSpace web site. #saa13 #s601
Based on #saa13 #s610 I’m going into my stacks to dig for some overlooked annotations next week (once I play catch up, of course)
Test scripts to guide archivists on entering accession records into @ArchivesSpace sandbox are available at website #saa13 #s601
@ArchivesSpace developed in Canberra Australia with technical guidance from @anarchivist in NY - the world has become so small. #saa13 #s601
Try @ArchivesSpace at http://alpha.archivesspace.org logon with admin admin. Be sure to leave input to team using "feedback" button #saa13 #s601
So, in 2 mins, @anarchivist demo-ed logon to @ArchivesSpace and input accession and resource records for a collection... Bravo! #saa13 #s601
Amazing examples of marginalia demonstrating institutional context within the circulating collections at UVA #saa13 #s610
...in short, the product vision for @ArchivesSpace is that."...it should be a joy to use." - @anarchivist #saa13 #s601
ArchivesSpace "archival objects" encompass the 3 major modules; accessions , resources, and digital objects. #saa13 #s601
iSchools? Pppppffftttttttttttt #saa13 #nyualumni
T minus 30 minutes until the #saa13 NYU alumni gathering is live at Capdeville! (520 Capdeville St.)
$615K IMLS grant to digitize UC Santa Cruz's Grateful Dead memorabilia picked as 4th most wasteful govt spending project (2010) #saa13 #s203
The revolution will not be televised... but your archival materials provided before securing legal agreements may be. #saa13 #s203
#saa13 #s203 ...and if you're ever interviewed on camera, don't wear dirty jeans. The producer may decide she needs a shot of you walking.
#saa13 #s203 Archivists cannot control the final presentation of archival materials by film makers... and we must let that urge go.
#saa13 #s203 Kennedy Library never credited by Mad Men for contributing Nixon, Cuban missile crisis, and JFK casket archival material.
#saa13 #s103 Audience member comment: "In the early 90s, archives cooperating with each other was a novel idea."
Between the whirring A/C and fridge, I’m to go nuts in the hotel. Escaping for the 95+ degree heat in search of Cajun/creole goodness #saa13