This morning, I am presenting my first-ever talk at a professional conference! This week is the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting here in Austin, and I am giving a talk entitled “Web Archiving for University Records” on a panel about digital records in university archives. I’m a little nervous, but glad to be giving […]
Month: May 2013
Queer Time, Archives Time
I was lucky enough to spend most of the day yesterday at a symposium put on by a group of UT graduate students entitled “Queer Archives, Queer Affect.” The symposium was the culmination of a seminar taught by Ann Cvetkovich exploring the intersections of queer theory, affect theory, and theories of “the archive.” The presenters […]
Web archiving in a virtual machine
This semester, I took a class on Digital Archives and Preservation, taught by the inestimable Dr. Pat Galloway. One of distinctive things about this course is that students are assigned into teams that spend the semester tackling a real digital preservation problem. This semester, groups worked with materials from the School of Information and from […]