Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Histories of Ordering, Classifying, and Connecting." Ciaran Trace (University of Texas-Austin) in a paper on “Archives, Classification, and the Digital World,” based on a forthcoming article in the American Archivist, examines the development of classification and arrangement in the United States from the 1960s to... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Histories of Ordering, Classifying, and Connecting." Patrick Egan (Pádraig Mac Aodhgáin), PhD, focuses on “Enriching Metadata for Irish Traditional Music at the American Folklife Center.” How does the digital revolution impact traditional Irish music, which is now very popular, shared and accessed worldwide? Egan suggests... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Deciding What to Keep: Archivists as Co-creators of Historical Meanings." Nick Pavlik’s (Bowling Green State University) presentation on “The Evolution of Archivists’ Roles from Keepers to Selectors to Collaborators” traces the conceptualization of the archivist’s role in an ever-changing set of societal and technological contexts.... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Deciding What to Keep: Archivists as Co-creators of Historical Meanings." In a presentation entitled “Transition from Analog to Digital – A Case Study of Special Olympics’ World Games Documentation,” Jane Zhang (Catholic University of America) turns the archiving project of the Special Olympics Headquarters, located... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Deciding What to Keep: Archivists as Co-creators of Historical Meanings." In the presentation “Preserving the Immaterial: Digital Visual Effects Records and Archiving,” Evanthia Samaras (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) presented some of the findings of a PhD thesis currently underway at the University of Technology... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Histories of Data Archiving: From Fisheries Research to Cybernetics." In an era in which climate change is a prevalent topic for overlapping groups of government scientists and historians [1], the fact that the presentation of Dr. Adam Kriesberg and Jacob Kowall (both of Simmons University),... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a three-person panel entitled "Histories of Data Archiving: From Fisheries Research to Cybernetics." Dr. Bethany Anderson’s (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) fascinating presentation “Machine Learning and Archival Practice: A Cybernetics Case Study on Computational Approaches to Digital Materials” reports on the results of a two-year long NEH-funded project at the... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a four-person panel entitled "Digital Transformations, Changing Institutions." Ed Summers (University of Maryland, College Park) shares a chapter in his successfully defended dissertation entitled “Seeing Software: Appraisal in Web Archives.” Based on a year-long field study which Summers conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a four-person panel entitled "Digital Transformations, Changing Institutions." Dallas Pillen (formerly Metadata and Digital Curation Archivist at the University of Michigan, now at Wayne State University) and Max Eckard (Lead Archivist for Digital Initiatives, University of Michigan, Bentley Library) discuss the “Impact of the Shift to Cloud Computing on... Continue Reading →

Note: This presentation was part of a four-person panel entitled "Digital Transformations, Changing Institutions." Note: This review is presented in both English and Spanish. It is based on transcriptions of both the iCHORA 2020 presentation (delivered in English) and a separate but overlapping presentation by the same presenter, “Tejiendo redes para la “Biblioteca del futuro”: mecanización,... Continue Reading →