Annual Meeting 2020

The Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative (SNAC) held its Annual Meeting on September 24 and 25, 2020, 1:00-4:15 PM Eastern Time/10:00-1:15 Pacific Time.

In addition to staff at SNAC member institutions, anyone interested in knowing more about SNAC was invited to attend.

Links to video recordings of all of the presentations are included in the agenda below.

Agenda

Thursday, September 24, 2020  1:00-4:15 PM Eastern Time/10:00-1:15 Pacific Time.

• State of the Cooperative Address — Daniel Pitti (30 mins.)
  • Historical overview
  • Current and planned activities
  • SNAC Membership
  • Volunteer Editors
• Comprehensive report on all updated policy and functionality impacting SNAC editing
  • Susan Pyzynski and Jerry Simmons (30 mins.)
• Break
• Announcements and reports from working groups (15 mins. each)
  • Faith Charlton - Communications
  • Susan Pyzynski - Editorial Standards and Policy
  • Iris Lee and Alex Duryee - Technical Infrastructure
  • Jerry Simmons and Dina Herbert - SNACSchool Team
• Welcome message from David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
• Updates on developments to enhance member benefits (60 mins)
  • Extraction services + OpenRefine extension, ArchivesSpace integration, etc. 
    • Overview (Daniel Pitti)
    • Demonstration of EAD-CPF Extraction services (alpha) and OpenRefine extension (Joseph Glass)

Friday, September 25, 2020  1:00-4:15 PM Eastern Time/10:00-1:15 Pacific Time.

• Demonstrations (50 mins)
  • User Interface enhancements (Jerry Simmons)
  • Vocabulary and Relations (Joseph Glass)
• xEAC Update and EAC-CPF to into Linked Art JSON-LD (Ethan Gruber) (10 mins)
• Featured Presentations: 
  • The National Archives at St. Louis, Persons of Exceptional Prominence, and SNAC / (Sarah Rigdon and Alexa Kitchen) (30 mins)
  • SNACing at Houghton Library: Integrating SNAC records creation into processing workflows / Betts Coup, Susan Pyzynski, Melanie Wisner (30 mins)
  • Break
  • Using Rocky Mount Mill’s African American Legacy to understand Enslaved/Free Person research / Bernetiae Reed (60 minutes)
• Invitations to open Working Group meetings

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Presenters

Faith Charlton, Chair of Communications Working Group (Special Collections, Princeton University Library)

Betts Coup (Harvard University Houghton Library)

Alex Duryee, Co-chair of Technical Infrastructure Working Group (New York Public Library)

Joseph Glass, Cooperative Technical Lead (University of Virginia Library)

Ethan Gruber (American Numismatics Society)

Dina Herbert, SNAC Liaison and SNACSchool Instructor (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)

Alexa Kitchen (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Saint Louis)

Iris Lee, Co-chair of Technical Infrastructure Working Group (American Museum of Natural History)

Daniel Pitti, Cooperative Director (University of Virginia Library)

Susan Pyzynski, Chair of Editorial Standards and Policy Working Group (Harvard University Houghton Library)

Bernetiae Reed (Archivist and Researcher of the Enslaved)

Sarah Rigdon (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Saint Louis)

Jerry Simmons, Cooperative Operations Manager, Director SNACSchool (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)

Melanie Wisner (Harvard University Houghton Library)