Siobhan here,
I went to the Archivists Being Awesome event tonight started by DVAG, the Delaware Valley Archivists Group (http://dvarchivists.org/) and let me tell you, it was less than an hour and my mind is blown. I am still in my early stages of being an MLIS student, at the end of this quarter I will have 7 classes under my belt. (So I guess that really means I'm three weeks away from being midway?!) A lot of our classes discuss Web 2.0 applications and how archives, libraries and museums will keep up and adjust to the technology changes we see all the time. These three archivists really gave three great presentations about projects they are implementing, or have already implemented, in their archives.
The link below is the archive video version of the presentation.
http://goodwincollege.
And a brief overview if you don't have an hour to sit and listen, or want to know before you commit!
The first presenter, Megan, is the only archivist at her institution and she uses her iPhone to assist her in completing a lot of tasks ranging from acquisition to sending PDFs off to researchers. She even has an app that guides you in case there is an emergency at your archives. All of the apps that she describes are free on your smartphone!
The second presenter, Richard, talks about a free(!), open-source, preservation-minded digital repository called Islandora. There is a lot of technical jargon that goes with his presentation, so instead of me butchering it, please just listen. Islandora was created at University of Prince Edward Island and will give you, and whoever you choose, access to your digital repository.
The third presenter, Scott, talks about Email Capture which is a free (again, hooray!) application that will preserve emails to reformat them to XML and get them to wherever you want them. There is a powerpoint presentation that you can see, I know we lost the sound. (I was in charge of the video/sound - my apologies everyone!)
If you found this interesting and want to learn more/stay in the loop/be notified of future events, this link is for the blog for Archivists Being Awesome in case you are interested and want to learn more.
http://archivistsbeingawesome.wordpress.com/
Please enjoy and let us know what you think!
