SAA 2008 Research Forum

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

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Society of American Archivists 2008 Research Forum
“Foundations and Innovations”

Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Hilton San Francisco

Participants’ response to the 1st Annual SAA Research Forum in August 2007 confirmed that the full spectrum of research activities – from “pure” research to applied research to innovative practice – is of great interest and value to the archives community. The 2008 Research Forum will build on last year's success by expanding the presentations portion to a full day.

If you’re:


 * Engaged in research…
 * Seeking to identify research-based solutions for your institution…
 * Willing to participate in the research cycle by serving as a beta site for research trials…or
 * Simply interested in what’s happening in research and innovation…

Then join us for SAA’s 2nd Annual Research Forum: Foundations and Innovations!

Researchers, practitioners, educators, students, and the curious across all sectors of archives and records management are invited to participate. Use the Forum to discuss, debate, plan, organize, evaluate, or motivate research projects and initiatives. Major goals of the Forum are to facilitate collaboration and help inform researchers about what questions and problems need to be tackled.

The 2nd Annual SAA Research Forum will be held at ARCHIVES 2008 to acknowledge current – and encourage future – research and innovation from across the archives community and for the benefit of the archives profession.

Presentation Session 1: Digital Content Planning - 9:15-10:00
Moderator: Nancy Y. McGovern

Ephemeral Music: Electroacoustic Music Collections in the United States - Adriana P. Cuervo

Incentives to Create "Archive-Ready" Data: Implications for Archives and Records Management - Margaret Hedstrom and Jinfang Niu

Values in Workflow: Building Bridges Between Digitization and Use of Images - Paul Conway

Poster Session 1 - 10:00-10:30
Confirmed Poster Presentations

Presentation Session 2: Format Foundations - 10:30-11:15
Moderator: Joanne Kaczmarek

Computer Assisted Appraisal of Contemporary PDF Documents - Peter Bajcsy and Sang-Chul Lee

Digital Dilemmas: Archiving E-Mail - Nancy Adgent(SAA Bio) and  Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig Preserving Electronic Mailing Lists as Scholarly Resources: The H-Net Archives - Lisa M. Schmidt

Presentation Session 3: User Studies - 11:30-12:15
Moderator: Paul Conway

Developing the Archival Metrics Toolkits: Conceptual Development and Testing - Morgan Daniels

Generating Higher Response Rates for User-based Evaluation Instruments in Archives and Special Collections - Helen R. Tibbo

Survey of 4,002 historians on how faculty use primary sources to teach undergraduates - Doris Malkmus

Presentation Session 4: Archivists and Content - 1:15-2:15
Moderator: Nancy Bartlett

Archival History: A Case in Point - Susanne Belovari The Permanence of Provenance: The ‘Two Traditions’ and the American Archival Profession - Rebecca Hirsch Remembered History, Archival Discourse, and the September 11 Digital Archive - Jane Zhang

Using Oral Histories to Repair the Archival Wounds of Watergate - Meghan Lee

Poster Session 2 - 2:15-2:30
Confirmed Poster Presentations

Presentation Session 5: Format Frontiers - 2:30-3:15
Moderator: Ardys Kozbial

Automatic Metadata Extraction for Archival Description and Access - William Underwood

FACADE: Future-proofing Architectural Computer-Aided Design -MacKenzie Smith

I Know it's Important, But What Am I Looking at? Strategies for using Blog Content to Contextualize YouTube Videos - Cal Lee

Poster Session 3 - 3:15-3:30
Confirmed Poster Presentations

Presentation Session 6: Digital Repositories - 3:30-4:45
Moderator: Helen R. Tibbo

Building a Reference Implementation of a Preservation Environment - Reagan W. Moore, Richard Marciano

The Chronopolis Preservation DataGrid - Ardys Kozbial

Opening aDORe - Ryan Chute What do Job Postings Indicate about Digital Curation Competencies? - Cal Lee