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This past week I had the opportunity to attend the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) in Erie, Pennsylvania. Sibyl and I presented on some of the work we’ve done with our implementation of XTF, focusing on user testing and other forms of evaluation.

On April 16, 2013 the third of four webinars on the Introduction to Digital Preservation was given.  The topic was management of born digital collections. Gretchen Gueguen, Digital Archivist for the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia was the speaker.

The first NE Archivematica Users Group was held last Friday to great success. There were roughly 20 attendees present, representing institutions like Yale, NYPL (the host of the meeting), Columbia, Harvard Business School, MOMA, and the Frick.

Below are some notes Laura took during the meeting. There is also a shared Google Doc which was edited and compiled during the meeting by attendees.

RAC notes:

On Thursday and Friday of last week, we had a visit from Evelyn and Austin of Artefactual Systems, who were here to set up a new version of Archivematica for us to test. This new version has some important functionality which will allow us to present access copies of digitized material online in DIMES.

It appears that adoption of Archivematica is really taking off. I’ve spoken to several other institutions, notably Yale and Columbia, who are not only planning to adopt the system, but also to contract with Artefactual for additional development. I thought it might be good to meet and discuss what we’re actually doing for a couple reasons, such as: