21ST Century Tools For Archivists:

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21ST Century Tools For Archivists

• A Progress Report on Persistent Archives at the
  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
• Jean Marie Deken
• Archivist

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Overview

• SLAC Test Collection SLD Records
• SLAC Metadata development
• PAWN Workflow SLAC ? NARA
• Some conclusions / issues for the future

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SLAC Test Collection SLD

• SLAC Large Detector for the SLAC Linear Collider
  (SLC) 1983-1988
• Early and prolific user of world-wide web
• No further need to keep data confidential
• Many types of electronic documents
• Meet US Department of Energy/NARA criteria for
  retention

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SLAC Test Collection SLD

• Initial Electronic Records Appraisal
• Surfed SLD web site manual crawl
  http//www-sld.slac.stanford.edu/sldwww/sld-workin
  g.html
• Generated list of records series technical
  appraisal http//www.slac.stanford.edu/history/sld
  pat.htm
• Interviewed collaborations
• Data Czar
• Web manager
• Spokesperson

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SLAC Test Collection SLD

• Targeted Web Crawls
• SDSC crawl agent combs site, starting at
  http//www-sld.slac.stanford.edu and
  http//www-sldnt.slac.stanford.edu
• Crawl result reviewed by SLAC
• Too broad horizontally
• 1100 pages ? 112 urls of interest
• No Crawl messages stopped the agent

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SLAC Metadata Development

• Began with the data elements that we currently
  use for our archives collections database,
  SLACARC
• Looked at
• Dublin Core
• METS
• NARA metadata scheme

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SLAC Metadata Development

• Now
• Application and revision
• Some automated application of std. Metadata
• http//www.slac.stanford.edu/history/projects/Meta
  dataScheme8.html
• Future
• Automate application of std. metadata
• Automate extraction of metadata

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PAWN WORKFLOW

• SLAC ? NARA

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Conclusions / Future issues

• Metadata
• What
• Where
• How
• Generalize lessons to other collections
• GLAST project (NASA records schedule)
• Non-science archival collections
• First US Web site
• Public Affairs photographs

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For further information.

• TPAP at SLAC http//www.slac.stanford.edu/history
  /projects.shtml
• PAWN
• http//www.umiacs.umd.edu/research/adapt
• Or Im feeling lucky Google keywords ADAPT
  UMIACS
• A Digital Approach to Preservation Technology,
• University of Maryland Institute for Advanced
  Computer Studies

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Contact information.

• Jean Marie Deken
• Archivist and Head
• Archives and History Office
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
• jmdeken_at_slac.stanford.edu