Department: Libraries and Imaging Services

Classification: Exempt, full-time, benefits
Scope of Position: The Dallas Museum of Art seeks a professional archivist to develop, maintain, and provide access to the Dallas Museum of Art archives. The Digital Archivist is charged with preserving the institutional memory of the Dallas Museum of Art through management of the archives and oral history program and must demonstrate a strong commitment to the archives profession. The selected candidate will work with staff from all museum departments to ensure that records of enduring value – in any format – are centrally located and appropriately cataloged for discovery and use by museum staff and the general public.

Essential Functions:

I’m at a conference hosted by the Taiwan eLearning & Digital Archives Program (http://www.digitalarchives.tw). I’m not going to blog every session (program here) but here are some highlights from the first morning's sessions.

In response to several emailed requests, Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei and DELOS NoE are pleased to announce that they have agreed to extend the deadline for paper, panel, and poster submissions for Appraisal in the Digital World Conference to 15 September 2007. Please see below for further details.

Appraisal in the Digital World
CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND POSTERS

Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei and DELOS NoE Conference

Appraisal in the Digital World
Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei (Rome, Italy)
15-16 November 2007
http://www.dpc.delos.info/rethinking_appraisal

The Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei and Digital Preservation Cluster of the DELOS Network of Excellence in association with DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) and InterPARES announce a call for paper proposals for a Conference on Appraisal in the Digital World.

Appraisal was born as an archival function in the mid-1940s out of necessity. The overwhelming amount of records produced during the II World War required drastic decisions on what to keep for permanent preservation and what to destroy and archival writers even redefined the concept of archives on the basis of appraisal. In the beginning, traditional archival schools  resisted the notion of archival appraisal as one undermining the impartiality of archives, justifying such an endeavour only when carried out by the records creator for its purposes.

We started our first online collecting project a few months ago and the most difficult issue that has arisen so far is how to handle emails. This is a big topic.

Museums and the Web 2007
April 11 - 14, 2007
San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/

Early Registration for MW2007 ends this Friday, December 15, 2006.

** Register On-line **
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/register/index.html
Join hundreds of your colleagues at the only annual conference exploring the on-line presentation of cultural and heritage content across institutions and around the world: the eleventh annual Museums and the Web.

Register on-line to make the December 15, 2006 payment deadline for Early Registration rates.

We hope to see you in San Francisco!