Excited to be listening to OCLC's #archivegrid webinar!

SSA / UT iSchool Mixer at SAA! Friday, August 10 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm in Room 504 on the Cobalt-Level 5 of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.

SSA opening reception at 6pm - come on out and celebrate with the best archival group around! #ssa13

Love hearing Jackie Dooley talk about the development of EAD! #ssa13

Smolovik: service in organizations creates friends and colleagues you wouldn't have otherwise. Get involved! #ssa13

Dspace facilitates great preservation tasks for its digi-objects such as checksums AND checksum checking #ssa13

Dspace can handle dark collections, but also dark "bitstreams" or portions of digital objects #ssa13

Collections in dspace can and should do a better job giving a narrative overview of themselves at their collection home pages #ssa13

Digi-objects in IRs such as dspace need to include copyright and source info at the item level to enhance real usability #ssa13

Pat Galloway wrote a very good article on using Dspace for archival finding aid search and display, which has pros and cons... #ssa13

Dspace has *great* preservation possibilities, but it's not turnkey - it takes careful active human planning for backups, for ex. #ssa13

Evaluation forms for this SSA meeting will be on the Registration Desk and at the Sat breakfast meeting. Let us hear from YOU! :) #ssa13

Architectural session - Dara Flinn sharing the wiki Rice Univ uses for digital project documentation, metadata guidelines used, etc #ssa13

Architectural session - Hayreth saying it can be hard to apply MPLP to architectural collections when users want item level info #ssa13

Architectural collections push the envelope of archival standards and processes - Beth Dodd #ssa13

@hollingerfox -- archival friends can help you make decisions, no?

Rice University getting ready to upgrade its IR software from dspace 1.7 to 3.0. Includes item versioning and advanced embargo interface.

Cloud based services used by archives include Duracloud, Archive-It, Preservica - which often use amazon and other servers #saa2013

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