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Last week on Friday, June 14^th I attended the NDSA Regional Meeting hosted by the Metropolitan New York Library Council in New York City. This regional meeting of National Digital Stewardship Alliance members, NDIIPP project partners and other institutions interested in digital stewardship was held in an “unconference” format allowing for various short and long presentations on institution activities that are focused around digital stewardship and an open agenda session for topics of discussion to arise. Sibyl presented on the work the Digital Team has accomplished at the RAC creating and implementing a digital preservation program from ingest to access.

This past Monday I had the opportunity to attend the SAA workshop “Appraisal of Electronic Records” held at the METRO office in NYC. Taught by Caryn Wojcik, Government Records Archivist for the State of Michigan, the objective of the workshop was to discuss some of the unique issues involved with the appraisal of electronic records and adapt the approach to appraisal in response.

The slides from my presentation at NYAC.

Yesterday I attended a presentation at the Weill Cornell Medical College on VIVO, a system that can aggregate information about research and scholarship from a variety of data sources. Although it comes out of the biomedical research community, VIVO can theoretically supply this same functionality to any academic discipline. In addition, because information in VIVO is typically derived from an academic institution’s records, it is generally more trustworthy and accurate than information in a system like LinkedIn or Academia.edu, where an individual can edit their own profile and so could misrepresent themselves and their expertise.

Last week we had a visit from Evelyn, Austin and Justin of Artefactual, who were here to continue working on our Archivematica implementation.