The Archives And Technology Unconference (TAATU) 2010

Halifax, Nova Scotia (June 9, 2010)

A Barcamp for Archivists. A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. They are designed to be fast-paced, intensive, fun events with discussions, demos and interaction from participants.

TAATU will be a free, laid-back event designed for archivists interested in IT and digital culture to hang out, exchange ideas and have some geeky fun. There is no minimum IT experience requirement, alpha-geeks and wannabe-geeks are equally welcome. The only requirement is that you are expected to participate in some manner, whether that is doing a brief presentation, blogging about the event, facilitating a brainstorming group, participating in the discussion, etc. 

The day's activities includes the annual meeting of the Special Interest Section on Electronic Records. SISER members in particular are urged to come out for the whole day, and not just the SISER meeting - TAATU will be a brainstorm smorgasbord of electronic records issues and discussions on how archives can use digital media to manage collections and connect with clients.

When/Where

This will be a one-day event before the Association of Canadian Archivists' conference at the Westin Nova Scotian. Conference website: http://www.archivists.ca/content/annual-conference. Conference facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=453738610695

Registration

Due to room size, registration is limited to 40 participants. Sign-up for TAATU as part of your ACA Conference registration (http://archivists.ca/conference/registration.aspx). 

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To keep this as a free event, t-shirts are optional and available at cost for those who want one. Of course, one of the main TAATU attractions is the ability to show of your geek cred to your archives colleagues with an ironic slacker t-shirt. About a month before TAATU the t-shirt coordinator will collect orders from all interested participants. The cost will be finalized at that time but it will likely be around $20.

fQuestions?

Please post any further questions about this event or issues with this wiki page to the ACA listserv (arcan-l@mailman.srv.ualberta.ca) with the word TAATU somewhere in the subject line.y mieszkaniowe

See also wiki pages from previous two years (when it was called 'ArchivesGeekFest'):

http://barcamp.org/ArchivesGeekFest2009

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Thanks!

A big thanks to the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) for including TAATU in the program, helping with local arrangements, and promoting it as part of ACA 2010.

Agenda 

1. ArchivesGeekfest is dead. Long live TAATU!
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5. SISER  meeting

Schedule 

Participation Sign-up (please add your name to the list below) 

Promotion (2-3) (post notices to arcan-l & Facebook group about how awesome TAATU is and to remind people to register)

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Event facilitator (1)

Design TAATU T-Shirt (1)

1. Peter Van Garderen

Archives & IT Lightning Talk (possible topics: "Look, my IT rules!", "Help!, my IT sucks!", digitization projects, Archives 2.0, TDRs, putting databases online, web exhibits, archives information system upgrades, electronic records preservation, e-records systems RFPs, blogging, what I learned at conference/course xyz, etc.)

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4. Peter Van Garderen - technical overview of Archivematica, an OAIS-compliant digital preservation system that integrates a number of open-source tools (will bring USB key versions of system for participants to fire up on their laptops)
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7. Evelyn McLellan - preservation planning in Archivematica, evaluation of significant properties and normalization tools to arrive at format-specific preservation plans
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Group Brainstorming

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Post a TAATU summary to this wiki, ARCAN-L, Canadian Archivists Blog, and the ACA Bulletin (3)

Post TAATU photos to this wiki and/or Flikr

Facilities Info

• TAATU will be held at: (was going to be NSARM, looking into a Dalhousie room right now)
• free wireless access is available for all
• at least one LCD projector will be available
• participants are encourage to bring their own laptops or at least a USB memory key for transferring files 

Participants

1. Peter Van Garderen, Artefactual Systems
2. Evelyn McLellan, Artefactual Systems
3. Paul Maxner, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management
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Suggested Activities

Guess the Avatar

1. Create and upload your avatar to the wiki, but keep them anonymous! (see http://simpsonizeme.com/ or http://www.doppelme.com/create/)
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2. Review/revise agenda
3. Battledecks/PowerPoint Karaoke
   1. what is Battledecks/Powerpoint Karaoke? Someone prepares a PowerPoint deck of random or related slides. No more than 10. Usually from some obscure, pre-existing presentation. Another person who has never seen the presentation before, pretends its theirs and 'sells it' to the audience. The hilarity ensues as the presenter tries to keep some coherent message to the whole thing without knowing what slide will pop-up next. Two presentations/presenters. Audience votes for winner. Winner gets lame prize (e.g. stuffed toy unicorn).
   2. a great example from DemoCampVancouver03: http://www.video.ca/video.php?id=1366004857
4. IT Balderdash
   1. In 2008 we did an Archives & IT quiz, which was awesome (at least from my perspective - I won a toothbrush! - jer.).  In 2009, we tried to define a list of awkward tech words and acronyms, with points awarded for a) accuracy, or b) originality (or best laugh).
5. Archives & IT Lightning Talks
   1. short 10-15 min presentations
   2. PowerPoint, demos and/or just a steady stream of chatter
   3. audience feedback/questions during presentation
   4. possible topics: "Look, my IT rules!", "Help!, my IT sucks!", digitization projects, Archives 2.0, TDRs, putting databases online, web exhibits, archives information system upgrades, electronic records preservation, e-records systems RFPs, blogging, what I learned at conference/course xyz, etc.
   5. please propose more... (nothing formal expected, feel free to use something directly from work, a good way to get feedback on existing, in-progress projects)
6. Hackfest/Group Brainstorm Projects - break up into groups, report back at end of afternoon
   1. eg, fun: functional requirements for the world's worst Archives IT system/website (hint: good way to figure out what the ideal system is by flipping it around)
   2. eg, geekie: add a GoogleMap mashup to your online archival descriptions
   3. eg, serious: let's solve this pesky little appraisal of electronic records problem, once and for all.
   4. please propose more (nothing formal expected, feel free to use something from work, a good way to get feedback and actual work done on existing, in-progress projects)