Category: SAA

Book Scanner

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This BookScan system was being demonstrated by Kirtas Technologies. I had never seen one of these in action before. It’s quite hypnotic — a robot basically pages through the book while two SLR digital cameras capture high resolution images of two pages at a time.… Read the rest

Probably the most spirited session of the day was the standing-room-only panel on government secrecy, chaired by Tom Connors and featuring Rick Blum, Ira Chinoy, and Tom Blanton.

Blanton is with the National Security Archive, a repository at George Washington University that gathers and disseminates declassified materials.… Read the rest

DSpace

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After spending lunch at a roundtable targeted at Student members of SAA, I headed over to the International Ballroom for a session on DSpace, an open-source digital repository system written in Java. The system is now in use at a large number of institutions nationwide (and even worldwide.)… Read the rest

This morning, I attended a session entitled ?Yizkor books, Weblogs and Ethnic Cleansing: Grassroots Documentation and New Technologies,? presented by Rosemary Horowitz of Appalachian State University and Andr?s Riedlmayer of Harvard University. The session was moderated by Stephen Naron,

The session focused on ?Yuzkor… Read the rest

So far this blog has focused mainly on the international initiatives being pursued by Simmons. Stay tuned for more of that ? expect additional posts from the group currently working in Kosovo, and several of us will be traveling to Nicaragua starting next week.… Read the rest

On Wednesday evening, SAA held a reception at the new Public Vaults exhibit of the National Archives. While one highlight/amusement was definitely the idea of drinking juice and eating cookies in the Rotunda, mere feet from the charters of freedom, the entire museum experience was interesting and interactive.… Read the rest