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One of the sessions I found most intriguing at this year’s SAA Annual Meeting was “How Are We Doing? Improving Access Through Assessment,” which discussed a variety of tools and methodologies for quantifying information about users, collections and discovery tools, as well as how gathering that data can help us improve our users’ experience.

After seeing lots of interesting interactions on Twitter with @textfiles, otherwise known as Jason Scott, I was super excited to hear him present at the Web Archiving Roundtable. According to his Twitter profile, Jason is: “the proprietor of http://TEXTFILES.COM , historian, filmmaker, archivist, famous cat maintenance staff. He works on/for/over the Internet Archive.” 

This past Wednesday, we gathered all the archivists who do processing into the D-Lab and wowed them with a demo of the Forensic ToolKit (FTK) software.

I started with an overview of our processes for separating removable digital media from collections:

Then I gave an overview of the proposed workflow for working with that media:

Since September 2012, when we first launched DIMES, we’ve been using a variety of methods to gather data on where our users come from, what they look at on DIMES, what functionality they use, and what kinds of things they search for. Looking at this data over time gives us valuable into how users are actually interacting with DIMES, and helps us evaluate the system’s functionality as well as the description of our collections.

OK, here’s your chance to vote for your favorite name for our Aeon implementation! You can select only one name, so make your vote count!