Yesterday I got an email from a friend who has the opportunity to give a talk to some archival studies students. They wanted to know what I (and others) would tell students about trends in the field (specifically digital archiving)
“No, we can’t just script it” and other refrains from (tired) archival data migrators
Below are the slides and script I used for the talk I gave with Danielle Robichaud at Access 2017 in Saskatoon. Note that the script has been edited from my messy notes to be readable, so it’s not 100% verbatim. Our
Tech learning in the archives
I’m in Saskatoon for the Access Library Conference, an annual get-together of Canada’s technology-minded librarians. It’s only my second Access (even though I was the programming chair for Toronto 2015) and the conference hasn’t even properly started yet but I’ve