#Bits & Bytes
Introducing the New Bits & Bytes
January 2, 2019
#Climate Change
Measuring Our Impact: the RAC Carbon Footprint Study
December 12, 2022
#Collaboration
The Digital Processing Collaborative: Laying the Groundwork for Collaborative Learning
December 6, 2024
Reframing My Work as an Audiovisual Archivist: A Collaborative Fellowship Experience at the RAC
October 16, 2023
Implementing Matomo for Web Analytics
October 4, 2023
DACSspace 1.0: Leveling Up Code and Skills
June 7, 2022
What We're Working On
April 29, 2022
Bringing Our Digital History Project into the Future: A Cross-Functional Success Story
March 9, 2022
Using the RAC's Collections API to create visualizations
March 8, 2022
Implementing a jump-to-hit feature in DIMES
January 26, 2022
Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives - Education Campaign Phase 2, the Reading Group
October 22, 2021
What We're Working On
October 12, 2021
Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives: Investigating Archival Description for Audiovisual Materials
August 17, 2021
Lessons in Power
May 19, 2021
Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives: Phase One of the Education Campaign
April 7, 2021
2020 in Review
December 21, 2020
Overbooked: Removing Library Data from ArchivesSpace
August 20, 2020
From Silo to Hub
July 15, 2020
ArchivesSpace Clean Up: An Outline
April 23, 2020
An Introduction to the Documentation Site Redesign
September 10, 2019
Developing a Training Strategy for Archivists
March 21, 2019
Hatching ArchivesSnake
March 7, 2019
Learning from Liberating Structures
July 23, 2018
Documentation Site Release: A Tool for Access and Transparency, a Push for Better Documentation Writing
July 10, 2018
Reflection: A Year in the Life of an Audiovisual Archivist – Part 5
November 17, 2017
Reflection: A Year in the Life of an Audiovisual Archivist – Part 4
November 16, 2017
Reflection: A Year in the Life of an Audiovisual Archivist – Part 3
November 15, 2017
Reflection: A Year in the Life of an Audiovisual Archivist – Part 2
November 14, 2017
Reflection: A Year in the Life of an Audiovisual Archivist – Part 1
November 13, 2017
Modeling Coworker Engagement with Data
October 17, 2017
Project Electron September Update
October 16, 2017
NEDCC's Preservation 101
September 20, 2017
Get Ready to Meet Your MatchBox
September 16, 2017
Virtual Vault: making access to digitized records easier
July 18, 2017
#Conferences
Presenting at the NAMLE Annual Conference
October 29, 2024
#Conferences/Education
iPRES 2024
December 2, 2024
Passion and Intentionality: Code4Lib 2024
May 30, 2024
AI, PDFs and Community: Code4Lib 2024
May 30, 2024
Archival Educators Roundtable: Winter Workshop
March 28, 2024
axe-con 2024 Reflection: In Defense of Simplicity
March 5, 2024
TAG 2023: What Happened and What We Said Happened
November 21, 2023
IAC23: Connecting Across Disciplines
April 6, 2023
Code4Lib 2023: Slowing Down and Taking Stock
March 20, 2023
Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives - Education Campaign Phase 2, the Reading Group
October 22, 2021
Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives: Investigating Archival Description for Audiovisual Materials
August 17, 2021
Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives: Phase One of the Education Campaign
April 7, 2021
Designing for Digital 2020
March 24, 2020
#a11yTO Conf on digital accessibility
November 4, 2019
SAA Report: Sessions on Accessibility and Disability in Archives
August 30, 2019
SAA Report Back
August 15, 2019
DevOps4Lib Summer 2019 Retrospective
August 9, 2019
PASIG 2019 Report Back
February 20, 2019
Learning from Liberating Structures
July 23, 2018
The Values of Open Communities
July 6, 2018
2018 IA Summit Report: Designing for Ecosystems
April 4, 2018
Managing Technical Debt: Code4Lib 2018 report
February 22, 2018
SHOT 2017: expertise and power
November 14, 2017
Modeling Coworker Engagement with Data
October 17, 2017
edUI Conference 2017
October 12, 2017
NEDCC's Preservation 101
September 20, 2017
Presenting a Poster at the AIC 2017 Conference
July 18, 2017
Shades of Similarity at Open Repositories
July 11, 2017
Workshop Review from AIC 2017
June 23, 2017
RAC goes to Princeton!
June 22, 2017
Scrum
June 16, 2017
Web Archives - Where Do We Go From Here?
May 2, 2017
LDCX, BDAX & PDA
April 6, 2017
Standards Work: Revising the DACS Principles (in a blizzard)
March 24, 2017
Maintaining a Kick A** Tech Team and Organization
March 13, 2017
Getting More Out of (and Into) Your Collections Management System: Introduction and APIs
January 31, 2017
Getting More Out of (and Into) Your Collections Management System: Digital Media Log
January 25, 2017
ACRL/NY Symposium on Money & Power
December 6, 2016
DLF Forum/DigiPres 2016
November 11, 2016
PASIG 2016: Invisibility and Labor
November 4, 2016
PASIG 2016
November 4, 2016
Six Years Later: a reflection on standards-making and maintenance
September 28, 2016
Born Digital Archiving eXchange Report Back
July 25, 2016
A healthy relationship with technology
June 8, 2016
WARCs! What are they good for? Researchers!
April 28, 2016
Radcliffe Workshop on Technology and Archival Processing
April 12, 2016
Learning Python as a Processing Archivist: A Reflection
April 6, 2016
Burnout, Politics and Patron Privacy: Code4Lib 2016
March 22, 2016
Code4Lib 2016: On Authorities and Reconciliation
March 18, 2016
Code4Lib Report: Don't Reinvent the Wheel
March 18, 2016
Introducing the RAC Reading Group
March 4, 2016
METRO Conference Report
January 24, 2016
METRO Report
January 21, 2016
A METRO Retrospective
January 19, 2016
iPRES Report
November 30, 2015
edUi Report
November 13, 2015
SAA Report: New Digital Curation Tools
October 5, 2015
SAA Report: Navigating Scandal
August 31, 2015
SAA Report: Interrogating the "Great Society"
August 25, 2015
Personal Digital Archiving 2015 Report
April 29, 2015
Born-Digital Workflows CURATEcamp Report
April 27, 2015
Mistakes Were Made: Computer History, Decompiled
April 21, 2015
edUI Report
October 10, 2014
SAA Report: Getting Things Done with Born-Digital
September 17, 2014
SAA Report: Assessment and Change
August 25, 2014
Jason Scott @ the Web Archiving Roundtable - #SAA2014
August 22, 2014
FTK Demo Day
July 17, 2014
User Experience and Empathy
April 2, 2014
Code4Lib and Archives
March 28, 2014
ArchivesSpace/osTicket/Aeon presentation
March 5, 2014
"Violation of Privacy Is Part of the Process": Notes on a Workshop on Privacy and Access Considerations in Digital Collections
January 9, 2014
OCLC Research Webinar: "Achieving Thresholds for Discovery: Addressing Issues with EAD to Increase Discovery and Access"
December 6, 2013
Designing for Information Objects (edUI 2013)
December 2, 2013
NYART event: Preserving and Archiving Electronically Generated Materials
November 26, 2013
Accessioning and Ingest of Electronic Records #1409
November 22, 2013
Lessons from edUI
November 15, 2013
iPres 2013
October 2, 2013
SAA Session Review: ArchivesSpace
August 29, 2013
Archives 2013 New Orleans, Digital Curation Planning and Sustainable Futures Workshop
August 23, 2013
Archives 2013 New Orleans Session 604
August 22, 2013
SAA Session review - Records Management in the Cloud
August 21, 2013
Digital Preservation Interest Group @ ALA
July 11, 2013
National Digital Stewardship Alliance regional meeting
June 20, 2013
SAA's Appraisal of Electronic Records Workshop
June 17, 2013
National VIVO Project Team Meeting report
May 21, 2013
MARAC Report
April 30, 2013
Report on code4lib 2013
March 4, 2013
Electronic Records Management resources and notes
February 27, 2013
Essential read: 51 Insights, Perceptions, and a Few Things That I Think Are Important to Professional and Personal Progress
December 20, 2012
#D-Recs committee
SAA: We're All Digital Archivists: Forensic Techniques in Everyday Practice
September 29, 2014
NISO webinar: Metadata for Preservation- A Digital Object's Best Friend
February 15, 2013
#D-Team
Digital Strategies Team Introduction
July 18, 2024
D-Team Values: Ten Years Later
December 20, 2023
2020 in Review
December 21, 2020
From Silo to Hub
July 15, 2020
Exceptional Validation: Working With JSON Schemas
September 30, 2019
What We're Working On
September 17, 2019
Modeling for Project Electron
April 6, 2018
Project Electron August Update: Gherkin
September 8, 2017
D-Team Introduction
July 11, 2017
Maintaining a Kick A** Tech Team and Organization
March 13, 2017
Getting More Out of (and Into) Your Collections Management System: Introduction and APIs
January 31, 2017
Introducing Project Electron: infrastructure for digital records
August 23, 2016
A healthy relationship with technology
June 8, 2016
bloggERS! Digital Processing Series
April 5, 2016
SAA: We're All Digital Archivists: Forensic Techniques in Everyday Practice
September 29, 2014
D-Team Introduction
September 18, 2014
D-Team Introduction
November 4, 2013
New Faces on the D-Team
August 15, 2012
Welcome to the D-Team blog!
August 15, 2012
#Data Cleanup
Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
June 15, 2022
Overbooked: Removing Library Data from ArchivesSpace
August 20, 2020
ArchivesSpace Clean Up: An Outline
April 23, 2020
Replacing Refids for Automation and Standardization
February 28, 2017
Code4Lib 2016: On Authorities and Reconciliation
March 18, 2016
Reconciling Large Corporate Name Datasets
April 29, 2015
From AT to ArchivesSpace Part 2: Migrations and Error Reporting
January 23, 2015
Migrating ATReference data to Aeon
December 15, 2014
#DevOps
On Not Choosing Kubernetes and EKS
August 25, 2023
#Digital Preservation
Translating Rights: Creating a User Interface for Authoring PREMIS Rights
September 19, 2023
What We're Working On
September 17, 2019
International Digital Preservation Day 2017: RAC's Disk Imaging Workflow Documentation Project
November 30, 2017
Workshop Review from AIC 2017
June 23, 2017
SAA: We're All Digital Archivists: Forensic Techniques in Everyday Practice
September 29, 2014
SAA Report: Getting Things Done with Born-Digital
September 17, 2014
Legacy Digital Media Survey
April 3, 2014
Bash scripting post on ACRL TechConnect
February 28, 2014
Metadata Cleanup and Ford Foundation Grants
February 14, 2014
MetaArchive and Distributed Digital Preservation
February 10, 2014
NYART event: Preserving and Archiving Electronically Generated Materials
November 26, 2013
SAA Session review - Records Management in the Cloud
August 21, 2013
Digital Preservation Interest Group @ ALA
July 11, 2013
National Digital Stewardship Alliance regional meeting
June 20, 2013
SAA's Appraisal of Electronic Records Workshop
June 17, 2013
NYAC Presentation on Archiving the Web
June 7, 2013
Artefactual Visit Report
May 13, 2013
Inaugural Northeast Archivematica Users Group meeting
April 16, 2013
Artefactual visit, March 2013
April 1, 2013
NE Archivematica Implementers meeting
March 29, 2013
ALA Digital Preservation Interest Group Meeting Summary
February 19, 2013
CurateGear 2013
January 31, 2013
Integrating Archivematica, ATReference and XTF
January 30, 2013
From Digital Dark Ages to Digital Renaissance: Role of Long Term Storage in Digital Collections webinar notes
November 19, 2012
Digital Dark Ages to Digital Renaissance: Art of Selecting Digital Content to Preserve webinar notes
November 19, 2012
Web archiving at the RAC
September 5, 2012
Artefactual site visit
August 29, 2012
#Digitization
Automating the Right Things the Right Way: a cloud-based pipeline for digitized content
May 24, 2024
Reimagining Digitization Using Service Design
May 15, 2024
Keeping Our Heads in the Cloud, Part 2: File Validation
September 28, 2023
Keeping Our Heads in the Cloud: Building a Cloud-based Infrastructure for Digitized Audiovisual Files
July 12, 2023
Automating Archivematica Ingests: An Update
January 19, 2022
Replacing Refids for Automation and Standardization
February 28, 2017
A Selection of Readings on Digitization
June 29, 2016
METRO Report
January 21, 2016
Special Projects Digital Duplication Presentation
October 24, 2013
DIMES update
September 16, 2013
Artefactual Visit Report
May 13, 2013
How Much Have We Digitized?
March 21, 2013
Digital Dark Ages to Digital Renaissance: Art of Selecting Digital Content to Preserve webinar notes
November 19, 2012
What is QA/QC?
October 23, 2012
#Film Inspection
There's No Place Like Home Movies: My Film Inspection Experience at the RAC
September 19, 2024
#Internships
A Curious Mind Is Opened
January 17, 2024
Collecting History at City College
May 18, 2023
Maintaining History, Telling Stories
May 11, 2023
Stumbling Into Greatness
March 24, 2023
The Castle at the Top of the Hill
January 23, 2023
The Hybrid Archives Internship Experience
September 26, 2022
My Time at the Rockefeller Archive Center
May 10, 2022
Encouragement and Confidence: An Intern Reflection
December 14, 2021
An Uplifting Encounter
April 29, 2021
Reflecting on the RAC Remote Internship Experience
December 22, 2020
The Intern’s Key to the RAC
April 30, 2019
#Professional Reading
Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives: Investigating Archival Description for Audiovisual Materials
August 17, 2021
Lessons in Power
May 19, 2021
A Selection of Readings on Digitization
June 29, 2016
A healthy relationship with technology
June 8, 2016
Introducing the RAC Reading Group
March 4, 2016
"What Screens Want" by Frank Chimero
November 22, 2013
#Project Electron
Request Broker: An Overview
June 3, 2021
Leveraging Collaborative UX Research, Design, and Testing Strategies to Operationalize UX Practice
March 1, 2021
Introducing DIMES: The Next Generation
February 1, 2021
Getting Things Moving: Notes on Improving Data Pipeline Performance
September 4, 2020
Making Connections: Building a Data Pipeline
March 31, 2020
UX design for archival discovery
October 17, 2019
Exceptional Validation: Working With JSON Schemas
September 30, 2019
Project Electron Goes Live
August 28, 2019
Setting Sail: the next leg of Project Electron
August 26, 2019
Project Electron Update: Building Microservices for Integration
December 13, 2018
Project Electron Update: Aurora and Web Accessibility
November 26, 2018
Project Electron Update: Aurora Usability Testing
September 6, 2018
Project Electron Update: Introducing Aurora 1.0
June 7, 2018
Modeling for Project Electron
April 6, 2018
Project Electron Update: Systems Integration Architecture
March 20, 2018
Project Electron November-December Update: Appraisal, Accessioning, and Rights Management
January 18, 2018
Project Electron October Update: Wireframes as Communication Tools
November 15, 2017
Modeling Coworker Engagement with Data
October 17, 2017
Project Electron September Update
October 16, 2017
Project Electron August Update: Gherkin
September 8, 2017
Project Electron July Update: Hackathon
August 9, 2017
Virtual Vault: making access to digitized records easier
July 18, 2017
Project Electron June Update: Transfer Specification
June 23, 2017
Project Electron May Update
June 9, 2017
Project Electron April Update
April 27, 2017
Project Electron March Update
April 6, 2017
Project Electron February Update
March 1, 2017
Project Electron January Update: User Stories and Personas
February 9, 2017
Share Your Story: Project Electron Update
November 7, 2016
#RACcess
Request Broker: An Overview
June 3, 2021
Getting data from DIMES to Aeon
December 18, 2014
Migrating ATReference data to Aeon
December 15, 2014
RACcess Update
December 8, 2014
#Reference
The Master Shelf List: Where We Go From Here
November 2, 2016
WARCs! What are they good for? Researchers!
April 28, 2016
Academics in the Archives
November 17, 2015
Technical Overview of EAD Requesting with Aeon
May 8, 2015
Getting data from DIMES to Aeon
December 18, 2014
Migrating ATReference data to Aeon
December 15, 2014
Introducing Aeon
May 7, 2014
ArchivesSpace/osTicket/Aeon presentation
March 5, 2014
Improving Reference Request Tracking
March 4, 2014
#Reflection
The RAC: An Intersection of History
December 5, 2024
The 2022 RAC-Selznick School Fellowship: Media Literacy Education and Culturally Competent Description
October 20, 2024
#RF Centennial
The RAC on Historypin
July 5, 2013
Sneak Peak at the RF Centennial Site
January 18, 2013
My experience with the Centennial Project
October 16, 2012
#Software and Systems
Implementing Matomo for Web Analytics
October 4, 2023
Translating Rights: Creating a User Interface for Authoring PREMIS Rights
September 19, 2023
Hitting the Reset Button: on change management, process maintenance and debt forgiveness
September 5, 2023
Measuring Our Impact: the RAC Carbon Footprint Study
December 12, 2022
Using Graylog to Better Understand Our Systems
May 20, 2022
Choosing Kubernetes
May 9, 2022
What We're Working On
April 29, 2022
Announcing the Release of Our Public Collections API
March 8, 2022
Becoming Better Maintainers: Improving Application Stability
February 10, 2022
Researching PII tools for archives
January 28, 2022
Implementing a jump-to-hit feature in DIMES
January 26, 2022
What We're Working On
October 12, 2021
Implementing IIIF
March 23, 2021
Lessons Learned from a Systems Audit
March 26, 2020
Exceptional Validation: Working With JSON Schemas
September 30, 2019
What We're Working On
September 17, 2019
Hatching ArchivesSnake
March 7, 2019
The Joys of Competence: on refactoring, context and learning
February 12, 2019
Automating Archivematica Ingests
January 18, 2019
Introducing the New Bits & Bytes
January 2, 2019
Project Electron Update: Building Microservices for Integration
December 13, 2018
The Values of Open Communities
July 6, 2018
Project Electron Update: Introducing Aurora 1.0
June 7, 2018
Project Electron August Update: Gherkin
September 8, 2017
Virtual Vault: making access to digitized records easier
July 18, 2017
Project Electron May Update
June 9, 2017
Getting More Out of (and Into) Your Collections Management System: Introduction and APIs
January 31, 2017
Getting More Out of (and Into) Your Collections Management System: Digital Media Log
January 25, 2017
Digital Media Log
November 18, 2016
Share Your Story: Project Electron Update
November 7, 2016
The Master Shelf List: Where We Go From Here
November 2, 2016
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing for ArchivesSpace
September 13, 2016
Introducing Project Electron: infrastructure for digital records
August 23, 2016
A healthy relationship with technology
June 8, 2016
Learning Python as a Processing Archivist: A Reflection
April 6, 2016
A METRO Retrospective
January 19, 2016
Academics in the Archives
November 17, 2015
edUi Report
November 13, 2015
Rockefeller Archive Center Bibliography now in Zotero!
September 22, 2015
Automating ArchivesSpace exports, or Better Living Through APIs
August 13, 2015
Frankly, my dear, we need a DAM!
July 31, 2015
From AT to AS Part 3: Training and Customization
January 30, 2015
From AT to ArchivesSpace Part 2: Migrations and Error Reporting
January 23, 2015
Migrating ATReference data to Aeon
December 15, 2014
Aeon Naming Contest Poll
June 16, 2014
Aeon Naming Contest
June 2, 2014
Unveiling ArchivesSpace
May 19, 2014
#Special Projects
Measuring Our Impact: the RAC Carbon Footprint Study
December 12, 2022
The General Data Protection Regulation in Archives
May 18, 2020
#Uncategorized
The Reich Stuff: Demystifying and Making Accessible a Collection of Author Interview Audio Recordings
October 10, 2019
1968: The Ford Foundation Gets a Computer
August 28, 2018
Where to find us at #saa16
July 25, 2016
Digital Processing Project Update
July 17, 2016
From AT to ArchivesSpace Part 2: Migrations and Error Reporting
January 23, 2015
#Values
D-Team Values: Ten Years Later
December 20, 2023
Hitting the Reset Button: on change management, process maintenance and debt forgiveness
September 5, 2023
Measuring Our Impact: the RAC Carbon Footprint Study
December 12, 2022
Documentation Site Release: A Tool for Access and Transparency, a Push for Better Documentation Writing
July 10, 2018
The Values of Open Communities
July 6, 2018
#Web Development
Building a Website Style Guide and Sass Style Library
March 14, 2022
#White paper
Media Literacy Through An Archival Audiovisual Lens
October 20, 2024
#XTF
Automating ArchivesSpace exports, or Better Living Through APIs
August 13, 2015
Technical Overview of EAD Requesting with Aeon
May 8, 2015
Searching within collections in DIMES
April 13, 2015
Getting data from DIMES to Aeon
December 18, 2014
edUI Report
October 10, 2014
What Data Can Do for You (and Us)
July 9, 2014
Introducing Aeon
May 7, 2014
Code4Lib and Archives
March 28, 2014
DIMES Search Results Updates
December 20, 2013
OCLC Research Webinar: "Achieving Thresholds for Discovery: Addressing Issues with EAD to Increase Discovery and Access"
December 6, 2013
Schema.org Metadata Followup
November 12, 2013
New York State EAD Consortium Pilot Project
November 6, 2013
How do our finding aids get from ATReference to DIMES?
October 31, 2013
Improving Search Engine Traffic to DIMES
October 17, 2013
DIMES update
September 16, 2013
Artefactual Visit Report
May 13, 2013
MARAC Report
April 30, 2013
Artefactual visit, March 2013
April 1, 2013
Updates to XTF
March 8, 2013
Integrating Archivematica, ATReference and XTF
January 30, 2013
XTF Searching Tips and Tricks
November 7, 2012
The Long and Winding Road: getting library data from Re:Discovery into ATReference
September 28, 2012
Update on XTF
September 14, 2012